Question

SCENARIO
You are in a job which you do not like, but it is well paid (high salary). You live close to your work and usually walk to work every morning. You also come home for lunch every day and eat with your wife in the home. Just today, you have been offered a job which you know you will enjoy, but it is slightly less paid (lower salary) and twenty kilometers from your home. You are married, but no children now. You would like to have children in the near future.

WHAT TO DO a, b, c
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25-35 words maximum for each answer to each question. Do not write a full paragraph or essay.
(a) Type the HEADING for each question copy the question to your WORD file. Use the HEADINGS . . .
1. Situation and Information
2. Barriers
3. Alternatives or Choices,   
4. Values,   
5. Decision,
6. Communication,
7. Risks and Consequences.

(b) Type/copy the question under the Heading
(c). Type your answer under the question.   

SAMPLE ANSWER FORMAT
FORMAT FOR ANSWERS

1. SITUATION and INFORMATION
What is the problem you wish to solve with your decision? Follow the first step of CCT.   

What information do you need to solve the problem or to make a decision?

2. BARRIERS
Any BARRIERS to making this decision?

3. ALTERNATIVES or CHOICES
What are the alternative solutions to your problem?   

4. VALUES
What values do you have which may influence your decision?

5. DECISION

6. COMMUNICATION
How will you tell your boss?   

How will you tell your wife?   

7. RISK AND CONSEQUENCES
What possible risks and consequences could happen because of your decision?
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Answer these 6 questions USING WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED ABOUT DECISION MAKING
1. THE SITUATION and INFORMATION: What is the problem you wish to solve with your decision? What information do you need to solve the problem or to make a decision? (remember to use the process of decision making that you learned.)

2. BARRIERS: What are the barriers to making this decision? Use the information from the slides.
3. ALTERNATIVES or CHOICES (different possible solutions): What are the alternative solutions to your problem? Hint: Maybe there is some other decision that is not keep the old job, or take the new job. BUT . . . you CANNOT JUST QUIT AND HAVE NO JOB.   
4. VALUES: What values do you have which may influence your decision?
What are the values you have and believe in which might influence your decision? Such values could include: 

having lots of money to buy things and do things, 

having a successful career, big job 

respecting your wife’s wishes, and feelings 

having plenty of time to do fun things and the things you want to do 

What are your goals in life? 

What does your work mean to you? 

What does your marriage/family mean to you?
5. DECISION. Write your decision.   
6. COMMUNICATION. How will you tell your boss? How will you tell your wife? Remember the Model of Communication to help you with the channel.
7. RISKS & CONSEQUENCES: What possible risks and consequences could happen because of your decision?
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Answer 1

1) The Situation & Information

(a) You have been doing a job that is well paid.

(b) But you do not like the work you do.

(c) Now it's only a walkable distance between your home and workplace.

(d) You have sufficient time to spend with your wife and can have lunch together every day.

(e) Received an interesting job offer as per your taste but it offers slightly less payment than the current job.

(f) A newly offered job requires 40 km of travel, up and down.

(g) You are living with your wife and wanted to have kids soon.

2) Barriers

(a) Less payment is not a good thing especially because you are planning to become a father shortly.

(b) Need of travelling around 40 km a day that will cost you time, money and physical involvement.

(c) Probably you will not get enough lunch break time to come to your home during work because of long-distance.

3) Alternatives

(a) Accept the new job offer.

(b) Continue with the current job and reject the new offer.

(c) Try to find a new job that is personally interesting to you, near to your home.

(d) If possible request your current boss to reassign your work responsibilities as per your liking.

(e) Enquire about the availability of the same job near to your place, with the concerned person who offered you the new job, just in case if they are having multiple divisions.

4) Values

(a) Family values.

(b) Values financial status.

(c) Career ambition.

(d) Planning for the future.

5) Decision

If the above mentioned 'Alternatives', such as (c), (d) or (e) is possible then you can plan according to that. If not, the only benefit of accepting the new job offer in this situation is, you will get a ‘fun to do job’ as per your liking. You will lose so many things that are crucial at this point in life which includes money, the happiness of being together with your wife, time, etc.

You should not speak to your boss or talk to the person who offered you the new job about your needs, unless you are very sure that you could manage it. Preferably only after a character analysis of your superiors.

6) Communication

(a) To the current boss: Explain him your plan about having a child and in a polite way you can let him know that you are tired of doing these current job responsibilities and you would like a change in it, if possible. So you could have comfortably concentrated on your family responsibilities.

(b) To the concerned person who offered you the job: Let him know your plans and try to convince him of your needs of being near to your home. So they can provide you a job offer near to your home.

(c) To your wife: Unless you get a ‘green signal’ for any of the above two things You do not have to discuss anything with her since it might create unwanted emotional stress. If any of the two proposals mentioned above works for you then you can casually inform about your new decision to your wife.

(7) Risks & Consequences

(a) If you continue with your uninteresting job eventually you become bored and chances are there that you will get fired for not doing the duty properly.

(b) If you take up the new job you could have ended up with an unsettled family life due to the stress in traveling and time management

(c) You will lose the current job and the new job offer if you are not well-prepared in presenting your current situation to your superiors.