Chapter 1
Decision Making

1　Mary Chen's Decision Making Dilemma During the Covid-19

Tang Mingfeng

Abstract:The outbreak of Covid-19 epidemic heavily affected all industries worldwide.Mary Chen runs a small professional training company based in Chengdu,Sichuan,China.The company provides training service mainly to government cadres from different provinces in China.When the Covid-19 epidemic broke out,the employees of Mary Chen's company were on vacation to celebrating the Chinese Spring Festival.According to the planned schedule,all the employees would be back to the office by February 9th.To avoid the transmission of Covid-19 epidemic and protect people's lives,the Chinese government implemented the lockdown and self-quarantine policy.The company had no clients and employees on work.It was obligated to be closed temporarily.However,the company should bear rent cost,employee pay bills and other expenditures.Under this difficult situation,Mary Chen had to decide whether her company should postpone the return date of her employees to office and how long the extended vacation should be if the return date was postponed.Mary Chen also should consider whether her company should offer every employee a full pay if the vacation time was extended.

Key words:Covid-19； employees； professional training； salary