What is Your Experiences with Decision-Making Models? xxxxx MMBL/500 Foundations of Problem-Based Learning xxxxx Decisions are made every day by each and every one of us, whether they are decisions about what we will eat for diner or career decisions, decisions are a part of our everyday motions and existence. Making decisions is an ongoing process; decisions make up our daily lives. Decisions form our personal lives as well as our businesses or organizations. Our business decisions are can range from who to hire, to whom to layoff. We have to make sound decisions when we decide to make changes to our company, decision-making, and critical thinking go hand-in-hand. As managers there is a responsibility to make smart decisions, research what is needed, gather all the information, when all the information has been gathered, we can move a step forward. As businesses we develop models or guidelines, or procedures to help us follow through with making the best decision possible based on the information we have gathered. Decision making happens every minute of both my job and my life. As a caseworker a few of my responsibilities are to do initial assessments or investigations of reports of child abuse and neglect. I am often faced with some of the hardest decisions I have every made, and the decisions are based on both the child's wellbeing and also my employment with the state. As a caseworker we have authority to remove a child from the current home, or the home of the maltreatment. I am responsible for keeping the children safe at all cost. My role is to identify if there is a victim and who the perpetrator is or was. One responsibility I have is to consider the law, what the law defines as child abuse or neglect. When often overwhelmed by my caseload and the number of children on it, it is always tempting to find the fastest way to fix the