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    Decision making theory PREVIEW Decision making is the core of the planning phase. Decision making is an essential process of identifying the problems and resolving them. This report will presents information on decision making and how it relates to the first management function of planning. Also, there are two types of decision; programmed and non-programmed. A programmed decision is structured decision made in response to a situation that has occurred often enough or repetitive, non-programmed decision is poorly defined and mostly unstructured. Different types of decisions are classified under conditions of certainty; using linear programming; risk, or uncertainty depending on which the future environment determining the outcomes of these…

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    Group communication allows room for interpretation of many messages thus creating conflict. Within the functional perspective on group decision making theory and the cultural approach to organization theory the communicator can evaluate the way their messages are sent and if they will be effective. The can evaluate the culture or the organization and the messages that they are sending to the public and to their peers. We learn in 1st Timothy that a good communicator will be able to do God’s work…

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    There is this theory that describes how we tend to make our decisions: Prospect Theory! Kahneman and Tversky developed this in order to describe the way that people choose between “probabilistic alternatives that involve risk, where possibilities are known.” This means that people tend to make decisions based on the pros and cons rather than the final outcome, and that people weigh these pros and cons using heuristics. ("Prospect Theory." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 17 Oct. 2015.)…

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    find the right answers to the “crucial moral questions “What should I do?” or “What kind of person should I become?”” . These are very practical questions that have to be answered in specific and different situations under divergent circumstances. The application of different ethical theories provides different answers for mentioning questions. The nature of Virtue theories is the importance of person’s values, “in today’s political language, “character matters”” , in his actions. In other…

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    interesting theory gone awry. It suffers from intellectually dishonest although technically correct examples, painful analogies and grants Dr. Schwartz the all-important power of ESP as well. For an intellectually dishonest example, we will use his assertion that the local electronics store houses 6.5 million stereo combinations. That is roughly 20 to the power of 5 times 2. So assume 20 varieties of speakers, headsets, decks, wiring harnesses, bass boxes with only 2 remote control options.…

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    Normative Decision Theory By: Jana Short This theory was developed by Victor Vroom, Phillip Yetton and Arthur Jago, aka Vroom-Yetton-Jago contingency model. It is a situational leadership theory used to find the best style of leadership based on the situation. This includes helping leaders decide how much employee participation, from zero to one hundred percent, should be used when making decisions. The diagram shows five different decision-making styles which vary from autocratic…

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    I know myself I would be using CI or CII strategies depending on the situation. Although I prefer having group or platoon meeting concerning day to day operations. Getting the pulse of your men is essential in the work place. We know that Norm Crosby appear like he is unmotivated after losing his promotion. Even if we look at him as a “Y” worker under MacGregor’s Theory, at this present time, all he sees is retirement and of course his sideline in construction where he feel it is the only…

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    Throughout our lives, we are given various choices throughout the day that have some sort of impact on us, large or small. The amazing thing about these choices is that we can decide which choice to make. Most often, people decide on how to make these choices based on their wants and desires at the time. People, religion, and cultures allow this type of decision making to occur but often hail good ethical thinking as the best way to use in decision making. Philosophers throughout history have…

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    not the case when the adolescents were unaware of the risk at hand. The analysis suggests that adolescents are technically more risk averse than adults, but in actuality, adolescents take more risks. This paradox is explained by the increased tolerance to ambiguity in adolescence. Adolescents do not choose to engage in risks, but rather they are willing to engage in risk when they do not realize the magnitude of the risk. This PNAS study was primarily supported by the fuzzy trace theory and the…

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    deal? What screen size do I want? Is any specific brand of better quality than the others on the market? Will the store offer a warranty? How about a delivery and return service? Do I want something I can mount to the wall or something that requires a specific TV stand? If I go with the TV stand, what are my options for that? Holy moly! Look at all of the decisions that need to be made just to upgrade to a newer television. My head hurts just thinking about all of the research I need…

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