Decision making

Leaders in an educational organization are constantly involved in the decision-making process to solve routine challenges and problems of practice in an effective way to achieve an organizational goal. “Effective leaders try to quickly identify the cause of the problem, and they provide firm and confident direction to their team as they cope with the problem.” (Yukl G, 2012, p.70) It is, therefore, important for leaders to recognize the nature of the problem and then act accordingly to solve it…

Adair (2010). Decision-Making and Problem Solving Strategies. Kogan Page In this book, the author talks about how decisions are made in three form. Those forms consist of decision-making, problem-solving and creative thinking. The author goes into detail about those different forms and how they affect us when making a decision. The author talks in detail on how you cannot predict the actual outcome of a decision but there are skills that can use to come to the best solution or decision. I…

Decision Making in Nursing Nurses make decisions that have life and death implications (Payne, 2015). Nurses must be accountable for their decisions as well as the consequences of those actions (College of Registered Nurses of British Columbia, 2012). Clinical decision making is a complex process that requires the nurse to draw from personal knowledge, client history, previous clinical experience, as well as intuition (Banning, 2008; Benner, 1984; Blum, 2010; Payne, 2015; Tanner, 2006). These…

The article, Incidental Haptic Sensations Influence Social Judgments and Decisions, contains three paired experiments that test whether or not primary tactile sensations influence cognitive processing in either aspect-specific ways or metaphor specific-ways (Ackerman et al., 2010). In experiments 1 and 2, researchers hypothesized that variable weight unconsciously affects decision-making (Ackerman et al., 2010).). For experiment 1, the weight of a clipboard affected participants’ evaluation on…

& Slovic, (2000) refer to decision making as choosing between a range of options or alternatives. In saying this, decision making can be undertaken in a variety of ways, the subject this essay will be focusing on, is the rational decision making model (RDM). Meeker (1980) suggests that the rational decision making model analyzes human behavior in terms of rewards and costs. The model compromises of eight sections, each section has an important role in the overall decision process. In identifying…

Group decision making is a type of participating process in which multiple individuals act collectively, analyze problems or situations, consider and evaluate alternative courses of action, and select from among the alternative solutions presented. On average, groups make more accurate decision than individuals and members of a group have individual accountability; the team has both individual and collective accountability. There are multiple advantages to group decision making. When making…

possibilities is harder still, perhaps too hard.” (Barry Schwartz) Every day, consumers have to make decisions on which brand to choose, which product to buy and what advertisement sounds credible. Unfortunately, the decision making process has become so complicated due to the amount of choices and information available. The question then becomes: what (why) influences consumers to make their purchasing decision? Consumers themselves might be able to express what they want, like, or even how…

The D.A.R.E group provides police officers to teach students and other people what not to do,and what to do incase of a scenario. I will be telling you about what I learned, The D.A.R.E decision making model. Last but not least, what I will do now because of how it helped. What does the D.A.R.E decision make model help with? It helps by breaking it down into four sections. The first section represents D. The D means define. Define is were you describe the problem or some kind of challenge…

of all of the Military decision making methodologies. While researching decision making processes I was astonished to see that different publications are very similar. Three publications that stood out to me are “7 Steps in Decision Making (the happy manager)”, a book entitled “Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work (Heath and Heath)”, and “What are the Steps in the Decision-Making Process of a Manager? (Ingram)”. It seems that when it comes to decision making/planning, that a…

day, billions of people make decisions whether it be a small and minor decision to get up early or a major decision such as buying a house. All the decisions a person makes throughout their lifetime are essential to how they think, live, speak, and many other things. People manage to make thousands of decisions a day and most of them are made through the habit of mind of making decisions by applying prior knowledge and experience to current situations. Decision making is a major and integral…