This document discusses policy decisions and members for an organization. The members listed are Lilian Masibo, Bonventure Wanyama, Eva Murgor, Daisy Kandie, and John Ruto. It then discusses what a policy is, the importance of policy decisions, and common methods for making decisions - command, consult, vote, and consensus. It provides examples and descriptions of each decision-making method. Finally, it discusses key players in the process of policy development, including constituents, lobbyists, political parties, and elected policymakers.

1. POLICY ASSIGNMENT
POLICY DECISIONS
MEMBERS
LILIAN MASIBO
BONVENTURE WANYAMA
EVA MURGOR
DAISY KANDIE
JOHN RUTO

2. • Policy decision
• A policy is a principle or rule to guide decision
and achieve rational outcomes, it also defined
as a statement of intent and is implemented
as a procedure or protocol.
• Policies assist in both subjective and objective
decision making.

3. • Importance of policy decisions
• A policy provides guidelines to the members
of an institution or organization for deciding
accurse of action, thus ensuring achiformity of
action.
• Policy provides and explains what a member
would rather than what he is doing, thus
speed up decision at lower level.

4. • Methods of decision making
• According to Patterson Grenny, MC Millan
Switzler, there are (4) common ways of
making decisions.
a. Command – Made with no involvement
b. Consultant – Invite input from others
c. Vote – Discuss option and then call a vote
d. Consensus –Talk unit everyone agree to one
decision

5. Command
• These are decision that is made with no
involvement whatsoever. This happens in one
of two ways. Either outside forces place
demands on us (demand that leave us no
wiggle room) or we turn decision over and
then follow their lead. We don’t care enough
to be involved let someone else do the work.

6. Consult
• Consulting is a process whereby decision
makers invite others to influence them before
they make their choice i.e consult with
experts, representative population or even
anyone who wants to offer opinion

7. Vote
• Voting is the best suited to situations where
efficiency is the highest value and you are
selecting from a number of good options,
voting is a great time saver but should not be
used when team members don't agree to
support whatever decisions are made, in this
cases consensus is required.

8. Consensus
• Consensus means you talk until everyone
honestly agrees to one decision, this method
can produce the medous unity and high
decision if misapplied, it can also be horrible
waste of times. It should only be used with: -
High stakes and complex issues or Issues
where everyone absolutely must support the
final choice.

9. players In the process of policy
development
• Constituents
• Lobbyist
• Political parties
• Elected policy makers themselves

10. • Constituents
• Constituents compose most of Kenyan
population. Their voting powers patterns and
policy concerns. The demands may focus on
job creation, healthcare and foreign policy.

11. • Lobbyist and special interest groups
• When the constituent’s population does not
directly advocate changes special in policies
regarding those populations, their plight may
be advocated through special interest
organizations this population may be paid
lobbyist. In general these organizations speak
for a portion of the population raising
awareness through the constituent base to
increase their voting power and directly

12. • Political parties
• Political parties act as a conglomerate
organization to advocate platforms covering
the broad range of issues. They may be
supported by smaller interest groups .Parties
gather and organize groups of individuals to
enact public policy concerns.
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13. • The three branches of government
• It involves politicians and policy-makers
themselves who act as a deciding vote for
public policy in parliament, senate, Supreme
Court and executive branch. All these
individuals and organizations impact policy
formulation.

14. Evaluation of environmental policies
a. Evaluation of the state of environment
(status, human health, ecosystems, the
economy e.e.c).
b. Evaluation of the implementation of policies
and their efficacy.
c. Evaluation of the state or environment allows
an assessment of the situation to be made,