Shamakio Royal
MGT/350

In this business scenario there are plenty of issues being faced every day on an island located off the South Pacific, by the name of Kava. Many of these issues will be discussed further in this paper. Not only will these issues will be discussed, but I will be determining what kind of decisions that will be made in fixing these issues. Many people who visit this island may think Kava is a place that you would call paradise. A physical paradise surrounded by beautiful palm trees, people surfing and lounging around on the beach, enjoying a tropical breeze. Unfortunately for some people who try to vision this island as a beautiful place to take a vacation, it is however, not really a place in which one would hope to travel too. The majority of Kava’s population is over 50% of the people that live there are under the age of 15 years old. Kava is a disaster area due to the issues they are experiencing, such as, Tsunami, Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Floods, Fires, Volcanic eruptions, Earthquakes, HIV/AIDS, Petroleum spill, High risk for avian flu, and Terrorism (from within and outside the country). This is a country that is in serious need of some help in getting the country moving forward and on its way to recovery.
In the decision-making process, there are a total of nine steps that we must follow in order to improve the issues being caused in Kava. The first step in the decision-making process is identifying the problem or the issue. As stated in the introduction, Kava faces the following issues: Tsunami, Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Floods, Fires, Volcanic eruptions, Earthquakes, HIV/AIDS, Petroleum spill, High risk for avian flu, and Terrorism (from within and outside the country). After closely identifying the potential problems, the next step would be to define the criteria, the goals, and the objectives. In doing so, we must first determine how often these disasters occur, what goals will be set forth in accomplishing an improvement to avoid these disasters and what can we do to prevent any damages being made, and which disaster should we focus more solely on. Step three would be evaluating the effect of the problems or the issues. Step four would be to determine what is causing the issues to occur; step five observe or picture your alternatives of the solution; step six evaluate the impacts of the alternatives. Below is a diagram of the Decision-Making Process pie graph:

After natural disasters occur, rebuilding infrastructure and strategic efforts have been hindered due to lack of organization. The lack of organization can be attributed to the large young indigenous population, and numerous indigenous languages spoken on Kava. However, with these different religions may also cause a negative impact to on improving the situation. Providing a solution that will address these issues on the island, would be to provide first aid, food and shelter to the people who are in need. One of the main goals is to get Kava back in to a healthy stage to see it grow into a beautiful Island once again, and to be able to promote business back into the island. We also need to be able to focus more on the issues that can be controlled. The helping organizations like the Governmental service (local, state, and national levels—including the military), Community-based organizations, Faith-based groups, and Businesses needs to be more involved in reconstruction for the Island of Kava. More shelters need to be built, and an evacuation plan needs to be created in case anything terrible like the island being completely destroyed. Other ways to improve the some disasters is by building a community that can uphold a Tornado, a Tsunami, or a Hurricane. If a disaster decides to strike, such as a Volcanic Eruption, and it cannot be avoided an evacuation plan comes in to play.
Knowing what some of the issues are that affects the people on the island of Kava we can only determine which issues needs the most improvements. We can only work on the issues that cause the most problems and affects everyone who is involved in the situation. After carefully evaluating those issues and the solutions that have been made, we must fix the main problems that constantly arise in Kava by taking the last step in measuring the impacts of the situation. Once we have completed the last step in the decision-making process, we can only hope that the decisions to the changes being made will work out for the people on the Island.