Solve the Vacation Puzzle (Organizational Behavior) and remember to use your communication and negotiation skills as well as your ability to resolve conflicts. In 500 words relate and briefly discuss how you use the steps and the ethical reasoning in the decision-making process. Compare the various decision-making models with each other. Discuss how to stimulate creativity in decision making. Explain the different types and levels of conflict and how conflict may be managed in an organization. Describe the nature of negotiation in organizations. Discuss the alternate strategies for negotiation.

Instructions: Can you solve this puzzle? Give it try and then compare your answers with those of classmates. Remember your communicative skills!

Puzzle:

Khalili, McCain, Middleton, Porter, and Quintaro teach at Oklahoma City University. Each gets two weeks of vacation a year. Last year, each took his or her first week in the first five months of the year and his or her second week in the last five month. If each professor took each of his or her weeks in a different month from the other professors, in which months did each professor take his or her first and second week?

Here are the facts:

1. McCain took her first week before Khalili, who took hers before Porter, for their second week, the order was reserved.

2. The professor who vacationed in March also vacationed in September.

3. Quintaro did not take her first week in March or April.

4. Neither Quintaro nor the professor who took his or her first week in January took his or her second week in August or December.

5. Middleton took her second week before McCain but after Quintaro.