here, some questions are there with possible solutions, we will try to find out the best solution based on humanity, ethics, positive thinking and immediate action as per the situation

1. BP506TP - CPDP
B.PHARM.
FINDING SOLUTIONS
EXERCISE
PROBLEM SOLVING & DECISION MAKING

2. PROBLEMS & SOLUTIONS
• Problems exists every where e.g. inside
home/outside home, personal
life/professional life, unemployed/employed
etc.
• To get fast and good solution of problem, it
needs skills
• Continuous practice is the only way to develop
this skill

3. Question 1
You come to know about your friend and
classmate who is a girl of 16 years that
her father has arranged her marriage in a
very good family. Your friend wants to
pursue her studies and she is deeply
disturbed over it. Her father don’t want
to loose such a relation/good offer. What
will you do?

5. STEPS YOU CAN TAKE
A. Tell her father that is unlawful to marry her at such an early
age
B. Appreciate her father’s concern over better future for his
daughter, but remind him that her daughter’s better future
is in her pursuing her education and not early marriage
C. Talk to her would-be-in-laws and express your concern,
stating that it is unlawful
D. Try to convince her father, that her daughter has no
objection with this decision, but would atleast like to make
it sure that her studies are not stopped after marriage
E. You will say to your friend that its your problem, solve
yourself
f. You will say your friend to make a police complaint

6. ANSWER
B. Appreciate her father’s concern over better
future for his daughter, but remind him that
her daughter’s better future is in her pursuing
her education and not early marriage

7. Problem 2
• You are going somewhere by your car with
your driver. Suddenly your car hits another car
infront of you. What will you do?

9. STEPS YOU CAN TAKE
• Go and apologise to the person driving that car that
you are extremely sorry and that it is unintentional
• Start abusing you driver for committing this mistake
• Come out and start blaming the other person, that it
was his mistake
• Pay out the damages caused by you to calm down his
tamper
• You will run away from that place
• Call the police

10. ANSWER
• Go and apologise to the person driving that
car that you are extremely sorry and that it is
unintentional

11. PROBLEM 3
• Your locality is disturbed by increasing
population of street dogs. They have become
terror on the roads and a few neighbour of
yours have also been bitten by them. What
will you do?

13. STEPS YOU CAN TAKE
• Organize a meeting wit your neighbours over
the issue
• Inform/complain to the municipality with a
written application signed by all neighbours
• Form a committee of your neighbours and
meet the mayor over the issue
• Feed the dogs with poisoned meat
• Suggest neighbours not to come out of their
homes

14. Answer
• Inform/complain to the municipality with a
written application signed by all neighbours

15. Problem 4
• You appeared for an exam and the result of it
is awaited. You are in need of a job but you
can get job only on the basis of passing the
exam, the result of which is awaited. What ill
you do?

17. STEPS YOU CAN TAKE
• Wait till the declaration of result
• In waiting period, go to zymnasium to be
physically fit
• Apply at jobs where result awaited are applicable
• Go for a lower job that does not require passing
the exam of which result is awaited
• Write to the department concerned to publish
the result soon, as your career prospects are
suffering due to it

18. Answer
• Apply at jobs where result awaited are
applicable

19. Problem 5
• You are travelling in a bus when you come
across a scene of accident, where a bus
collided with a car. The people in the car are
seriously injured. What will you do?

21. STEPS YOU CAN TAKE
• You will wait and see what others are doing
• You will say the driver don’t involve in this, start
the bus and go
• Ask the people to come out and help the injured
• Call the ambulance
• Rush to the spot and help people carry the
injured
• Ask you bus driver to carry the injured to nearby
hospital

22. Answer
• Rush to the spot and help people carry the
injured

23. Problem 6
• You are manager in a pharmaceutical
company. Your former manager was in the
habit of taking bribes from the junior
employees and doing personal favours to
them. The employees expect the same thing
from you. What will you do?

25. STEPS YOU CAN TAKE
• You will start taking bribe
• Immediately you make call to anticorruption
office to tell the matter
• Speak to the junior employees in plain terms not
to expect such favours from you
• Make a written complaint against the junior
employees for trying to influence your work in
improper way
• Take the help of the media to expose the
happenings

26. Answer
• Speak to the junior employees in plain terms
not to expect such favours from you

27. Problem 7
• You are a news reporter. You witness a scene
of crime where two miscreants are throwing
acid on a person. What will you do?

29. STEPS YOU CAN TAKE
• You will run away from there
• Take pictures of the act and of miscreants
• Stop the miscreants from doing so
• Shout for help
• Call the police

30. Answer
• Shout for help

31. CONCLUSION
• Selection of option varies from person to
person depends on their personal thinking
• But Selection of best option should be based
on ethics, humanity, positive personal
thinking, immediate positive action

32. REFERENCES
• Farhan Rahman, Decision making & problem
solving, upkar prakashan, agra
• Google images

33. TAPAN KUMAR MAHATO
tapan.mahato@gmail.com

34. Thank you