Assignment No.

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Submitted To: Ma’am Shamila
Submitted By: Yousaf Saeed
Roll no. 21P00044
Subject: Management-policy and practice
For a personal problem, using the rational decision-making process, justify the best solution
through quantification.
Azam is freshmen in university. He uses uber and careem daily for transport. His phone battery
last for 4 hour and he is on campus for about 8 hours. He is facing issue while going back home
because at the end of the day he couldn’t use phone. He doesn’t have enough budget to buy
new phone and he don’t want to repair his phone. He is thinking about to buy power bank. His
budget is limited.
Decision making process:
1. Problem identification:
These are the problem faced by Azam:

 Phone battery drain quickly

 Limited budget

2. Identifying decision criteria:

He is thing about to buy new power bank, his priorities are battery, price, fast charging, carrying
weight, number of USB ports and warranty.

Priorities Score
Battery 10
Price 9
Fast charging 7
Carrying weigh 6
Number of USB ports 5
Warranty 4
3. Allocating weights:
The following table shows what are Azam priorities and weights are assigned accordingly.
 4. Developing alternatives:
The following table shows what alternatives are available in market.

battery Price Fast Carrying No. of USB Warranty

charging weight ports
Realme 6 7 7 4 10 2

Audionic 10 5 8 9 9 8

Anker 8 8 3 8 5 6

Dany 9 10 4 10 9 10

5. Analyzing alternatives:
After analyzing the data from market now we are going score each alternative by over
priorities. The following table show the scoring:

battery Price Fast Carrying No. of Warranty Total

charging weight USB score
ports
Realme 60 63 49 24 50 8 254

Audionic 100 45 56 54 45 64 364

Anker 80 72 21 48 25 48 295

Dany 90 90 28 60 45 80 393

6. Selecting the alternative

From the above table we can see that Dany has highest score from other alternatives. So, Azam
will select Dany.
 7. Implementing the alternatives:
As Azam has already selected the alternative. He will buy deny power bank. Suppose if deny
power bank isn’t available in the market or the price of that product have rose. Then he will
select the second highest score, he would then buy Audionic.
8. Evaluating decision effectiveness:
After following whole this process Azam would evaluate his decision by check the product that
he had bought and check if the issue resolved or not. If the issue remains the same then he
would have to check all the steps where he went wrong.