Decision-Making Paradigm. Literature & Language Essay

Decision-Making Paradigm
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Decision-Making Paradigm
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As a leader, a scenario that will be deeply problematic for me is my juniors disrespecting my decisions and orders because they think it is wrong or inappropriate. Not every person in an organization will like all the decisions a leader makes. It is even worse when they start protesting for the decision made. For example, the coronavirus pandemic has affected the media tourism industry, and it does not receive tourists as it did before. It means the revenues have also reduced drastically. As a human resource manager in a tourism firm, I have two options to save the company from collapsing. One is to cut the human resources in the firm by half, and the second is to reduce their salary by 50 percent. Because of the family, we have built together, I would decide salary is slashed retain all employees. Some employees are likely to protest this decision and demand full payment of their salary.
Kantian Ethics (Immanuel Kant)
Immanuel Kant (1785) believed in reflecting on a decision before making it. Before taking implementing a decision, Kant says one should ask themselves how the decision will affect other people in that circle. He, Kant, argues that a leader should not act if the decision will not please everyone. According to Kant (1785), the decision to move should be entirely out of a leader’s duty without minding the consequences. Kant (1785) would not consult anything apart from what is duty spells. He would slice the salaries by half without consulting the workers or any stakeholders. If the firm continued making losses, Kant would fire half of the human resources to save the situation. Kant believes in following the call of duty and whether positive or negative. It is the reason he would act this way.
In my scenario, it is my duty as a human resource manager to ensure that the firm does not collapse. I need to take any necessary steps for the greater good of the tourism company because it would be on my leadership skills if it collapses. The first step would be to slash the salaries to the employees by half. This should be an understandable decision even with the employees because they see that tourists' inflow has dropped. Anybody who protests the decision should be sacked. It is their duty as employees to mind the firm's future, too, because it is their source of livelihood. If the decision to cut the pay does not work, I will send some employees unpaid leave. This means they would still have their jobs back when the situation comes back to norma...