特别广播英语第 118 课：What Is a Decision? 什么是决策？-1

A decision is a choice made from among alternative courses of action that are available. 决策是从可供挑选的行动方向中作选择。

The purpose of making a decision is to establish and achieve organizational goals and objectives. 决策的目的是建立并实现一个机构的目的和目标。

The reason for making a decision is that a problem exists, goals or objectives are wrong, or something is standing in the way of accomplishing them. 之所以要决策是因为有问题存在，目标或目的的不适当，或者有某种东西妨碍了目标或目的的实现。

Thus the decision-making process is fundamental to management. 因此，决策过程对于管理非常重要。

Almost everything a manager does involves decisions, indeed, some suggest that the management process is decision making. 一个管理者做的差不多所有事情都离不开决策。有人甚至提出管理就是决策。

Although managers cannot predict the future, many of their decisions require that they consider possible future events. 虽然管理者不能预见未来，但是他们要做的很多决策需要他们考虑将来可能发生的情况。

Often managers must make a best guess at that the future will be and try to leave as little as possible to chance,管理者常常必须对未来的情况作出最佳的猜测，使偶然性尽可能少地发生。

but since uncertainty is always there, risk accompanies decisions. 但是因为总是在不确定的因素，所以决策往往伴随着风险。

Sometimes the consequences of a poor decision are slight; at other times they are serious. 一个不当的决策的后果有时不严重而有时严重。