"Decision making is the cognitive process of selecting a course of action from among multiple alternatives. Every decision-making produces a final choice. It can be an action or an opinion. It begins when we need to do something but we do not know what. Therefore decision-making is a reasoning process which can be rational or irrational, and can be based on explicit assumptions or tacit assumptions"( wikepedia.org). This is something that is used every day, by everyone to make decisions. There are tools that help us make decisions and one of those tools is a decision making model. A decision making model is an effective tool that has a number of steps that you would follow that allows you to make the most informative decision possible. There are many different models that are used with each having numerous amounts of steps. The one I chose is a six step model from ethics.org. It has ethical considerations intertwined within it but can be used for many other types of decisions.
There are six steps to this model; defining the problem, identifying the alternatives, evaluating the alternatives, making the decision, implementing the decision, and evaluating the decision. Unbeknownst to me, I followed a model like then when I had to make a critical decision at my previous employer.
The problem I had and the decision I had to make was profound and it could have and did change my career forever. The problem was this: I was being sexually harassed by an off duty police officer that the company I worked hired for security purposes. On many occasions, this officer had made inappropriate comments to me. At first, I overlooked the comments and I was transferred to another store and thought my problem had been solved for me. I was wrong.