04-U5D1 - Decision Making Flow Chart

Create a flow chart of the decision-making process using one of the processes identified in the Rainey text or some other version that you have discovered through your own literature research. Post your flow chart to the discussion.

Use your flow chart to analyze a process that you have recently implemented or have observed as it was implemented in a public agency. Was it an effective implementation? What made it effective? If not, where in the decision-making process did the effectiveness break down?

Resource material: Rainey text:

• Chapter 7, "Formulating and Achieving Purpose: Power, Strategy, and Decision Making," pages 173–207.
• Chapter 9, "Understanding People in Public Organizations: Values and Motives," pages 257–296.