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وزارة التعليم
الجامعة السعودية اإللكترونية
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Ministry of Education
Saudi Electronic University
College of Administrative and Financial Sciences
Assignment 3
Decision Making and Problem Solving (MGT 312)
Due Date: End of week 12, 26/04/2025 @ 23:59
Course Name: Decision Making and Problem
Solving
Course Code: MGT312
Student’s Name:
Semester: 2nd
CRN: 23778
Student’s ID Number:
Academic Year:2024-25; SECOND SEMESTER
For Instructor’s Use only
Instructor’s Name: Dr. Faisal Alhathal
Students’ Grade:
/ 10
Level of Marks: High/Middle/Low
General Instructions – PLEASE READ THEM CAREFULLY
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This assignment is a group assignment. Each group will consist of 4-5 Students only.
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The Assignment must be submitted only in WORD format via allocated folder.
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Assignments submitted through email will not be accepted.
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Students are advised to make their work clear and well presented, marks may be
reduced for poor presentation.
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Students must mention question number clearly in their answer.
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Late submission will NOT be accepted.
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Avoid plagiarism, the work should be in your own words, copying from students or
other resources without proper referencing will result in ZERO marks. No
exceptions.
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All answered must be typed using Times New Roman (size 12, double-spaced)
font. No pictures containing text will be accepted and will be considered plagiarism).
Submissions without this cover page will NOT be accepted.
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Learning Outcomes:
1. Describe decision making process for complex issues pertaining to business
environment both internally and externally. (C.L.O :1.1)
2. Demonstrate decision tools and employ appropriate analytical business models to
break down complex issues. (C.L.O :2.2)
3. Demonstrate effective leadership skills and teamwork capacity for efficient
decision making with the problem owners and other stakeholders as either a team
member or a team leader. (C.L.O :3.1)
Assignment Instructions for Part-I:
● Log in to Saudi Digital Library (SDL) via University’s website
● On first page of SDL, choose “English Databases”
● From the list find and click on EBSCO database.
● In the search bar of EBSCO find the following article:
Title:
“Case Study: The CEO Suffered a Breakdown. Now What?”
Author:
by Manzoni, Jean-François
Date of Publication:
Jan/Feb2025
Published:
Harvard Business Review
Assignment Question(s):
(Marks 10)
Read the case study titled as “Case Study: The CEO Suffered a Breakdown. Now
What?” by Manzoni, Jean-François published in Harvard Business Review, and answer
the following Questions:
1. Identify the main problem and subproblems of the case?
[Mark 1]
2. Writ the problem statement which should include the followings:
A. the clear concise description and summary of the problem,
B. scope of the problem,
C. consequences of the problem,
D. the methods for resolving the problem in the above case?
[Marks 2]
3. Brainstorm with your team and generate all the ideas that your team suggests. The
team cull the ideas and selected some relevant alternative choices for decision. [Mark
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4. Weighing the alternatives
[Marks 2]
When weighing the various alternatives, how well each alternative fulfils the
variables to consider can be expressed as scores. A different rating scale will be used
to assess each alternative:
+2 very suitable
+1 quite suitable
0 neither suitable nor unsuitable
-1 not quite suitable
-2 not suitable at all
Note: Positive numbers (+2 or +1) indicate that the alternative is able to fulfil the
variables, whereas negative numbers (-2 or -1) denote the opposite.
5. Draw a decision tree based for decision making,
[1 Marks]
6. As Chairman of Kraftwerke Grün, what will be your decision regarding Alex
Reinhardt and why?
[Mark 1]
7. Write the conclusion and overall assessment.
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[Marks 1]
Answers
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