Organizational decision making






Decision making in organizations is often pictured as a coherent and rational process in which alternative interests and perspectives are considered in an orderly manner until the best choice is selected. Yet, as most experienced members of organizations will attest, real decision processes seldom fit such a description. This book brings together researchers who focus on cognitive aspects of decision processes, along with those who study organizational aspects such as conflict, incentives, power and ambiguity. These multiple perspectives are intended to further our understanding of organizational decision making. Contributors often cite specific cases, and all foundations of organizational decision making are covered in considerable detail.

High-level Petri Nets for a Model of Organizational Decision Making
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This paper introduces a new direction in formalizing sociological models. Sociological theories are a field of application for computer science, hence sociologists describe a theory in informal ways. These theories are transformed into computational models which can be

An organizational ethics decision – making process
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For many healthcare executives, ethical conflicts like the one described above are regular occurrences. The nature of healthcare management is such that decisions with ethical implications are made every day for issues as diverse as access to the organizations

Organizational Decision Making with Respect to Extreme Events: Healthcare Organizations Respond to Californias SB 1953
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Research Objectives Decisions about enhancing seismic safety in critical facilities require more than engineering choices about which technology is most appropriate. Such decisions are made in the context of organizational goals and strategy, financial capacity, choices

STRATEGIC DECISION MAKING FOR ORGANIZATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY: THE IMPLICATIONS OF SERVANT LEADERSHIP AND SUSTAINABLE
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This conceptual paper explores the implications of servant leadership and sustainable leadership for strategic decision making by the top management of an organization. It is argued that a different type of leadership is required if effective strategic decisions are to be

Values based decision making : organizational mission and integrity
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Insofar as a healthcare organization seeks to possess integrity, Values Based Decision Making (VBDM) must frame its approach to organizational ethics. Integrity requires that an organization have a mission, ie, a set of fundamental moral commitments and values, that it

A study of intuition in decision – making using organizational engineering methodology
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This study examines the concept of intuition in decision – making by means of a literature review and study of measures currently being used within organizations. Human behaviorists have examined why the performance of some people get them to the top while

Towards a Netsourcing Decision Model: An Empirical Evaluation of Criteria Determining Organizational Decision Making
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Among the broad range of outsourcing offerings, netsourcing presents a relatively new one. Netsourcing allows companies to selectively source software applications from external providers via the Internet. External providers claim cost advantages over in-liouse In this chapter the metasystem paradigm elaborated in chapters 14 and 15 is applied to decision making in real-worlds situations Decision making is regarded as a multilevel process taking place in an inquiring system which converts inputs (evidence) into outputs (decisions) and whose epistemology

How intellectual capital reduces stress on organizational decision – making performance: The mediating roles of task complexity and time pressure.
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Previous research claimed that organizational stress, due to task complexity and time pressure, leads to considerably negative effects on the decision – making performance of individuals and organizations. At the same time, intellectual capital (IC), in providing

The reporting of organizational risks for internal and external decision making
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The regulatory pressures for improved risk assessment and reporting on internal control have increased around the world. The reason corporate accounting failures, frauds, internal control breaches, and governance failures have been seen in companies and

Effect of employee participation in decision making on the organizational commitment amongst academic staff in the private and public universities in Kenya
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of employee participation in decision making on academic staffs organizational commitment in the private and public universities in Kenya. This survey study was a form of a cross-section study where descriptive research

Managing social interaction as a key to organizational decision making : From problem solving to sensemaking and design
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It is argued that the design of decisions is a process that in many ways is shaped by social factors such as identities, values, and influences. To be able to understand how these factors impact on organizational decisions, the focus must be set on the management level

Modeling organizational decision making in military command and control
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Digital training is more than individual training, and it is additive in nature. It is also essential to train individual skills within the context of a network with the friction of the field environment. Leaders must understand networks, what affects a networks successful

Disaster mitigation in hospitals: Factors influencing organizational decision – making on hazard loss reduction
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Focus group interviews were conducted with representatives from thirteen hospitals in California, Tennessee, and New York in order to identify impediments and incentives for the adoption and implementation of loss-reduction measures in hospitals. The economic and

The role of ethical intelligence and organizational infrastructure in organizational decision – making
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Ethics and corporate social responsibility have emerged as two of the most important organization management principles of the last 30 years. Despite the empirical relationship between high standards of ethical decision – making and organizational performance, the

THE GRAY BOX: AN ORGANIZATIONAL DECISION – MAKING TOOL FOR INCLUSIVE ETHICS AND LEADERSHIP CONSIDERATIONS IN STRATEGIC
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The metaphor of the gray box can be used to describe an environment where individuals and organizations make daily business decisions that may involve potentially ethically challenging scenarios. In these cases it is often difficult to explicitly distinguish between what

An IC-based conceptual framework for developing organizational decision making capability
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Organizations need to be able to access, coordinate and integrate knowledge more efficiently than ever before to make sense of the complex and unpredictable forces shaping business conditions. Often knowledge is sourced from diverse yet interconnected networks


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