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| | Decision making - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Decision making is said to be a psychological construct. | | | Structured rational decision making is an important part of all science-based professions, where specialists apply their knowledge in a given area to making informed decisions. | | | Decision making in groups is sometimes examined separately as process and outcome. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_making
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| | DECISION THEORY |
| | Decision theory is a body of knowledge and related analytical techniques of different degrees of formality designed to help a decision maker choose among a set of alternatives in light of their possible consequences. | | | Decision theory for risk conditions is based on the concept of utility (see utility, sense 2). | | | Decision theory can apply to conditions of certainty, risk, or uncertainty. |
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http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ASC/DECISI_THEOR.html
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| | Decision Making and Problem Solving, by Herbert A. Simon |
| | Related to aggregation is the question of how decision making and problem solving change when attention turns from the behavior of isolated individuals to the behavior of these same individuals operating as members of organizations or other groups. | | | What chiefly distinguishes the empirical research on decision making and problem solving from the prescriptive approaches derived from SEU theory is the attention that the former gives to the limits on human rationality. | | | Moreover, their decisions are influenced substantially by the patterns of information flow and other communications among the various organization units. |
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http://dieoff.org/page163.htm
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| | Introduction to Decision Making |
| | Making a decision implies that there are alternative choices to be considered, and in such a case we want not only to identify as many of these alternatives as possible but to choose the one that best fits with our goals, desires, lifestyle, values, and so on. | | | A critical factor that decision theorists sometimes neglect to emphasize is that in spite of the way the process is presented on paper, decision making is a nonlinear, recursive process. | | | A common misconception about decision making is that decisions are made in isolation from each other: you gather information, explore alternatives, and make a choice, without regard to anything that has gone before. |
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http://www.virtualsalt.com/crebook5.htm
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| | Overcoming Serious Indecisiveness |
| | Therefore making a decision implies that there are alternative choices to be considered, and in such a case we want not only to identify as many of these alternatives as possible but to choose the one that best fits with our goals, desires, lifestyle, values, and so on. | | | Decisions are at the heart of leader success, and at times there are critical moments when they can be difficult, perplexing, and nerve-racking. | | | Decisions are at the heart of success, and at times there are critical moments when they can be difficult, perplexing, and nerve racking. |
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http://home.ubalt.edu/ntsbarsh/opre640/partXIII.htm#rlearngood
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| | Decision-making |
| | The one factor that Referees have trouble with controlling when making rational decisions, is to make decisions independent of their physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual state in which they happen to find themselves before every game. | | | If a Referee can condition his mind, to accept that it is impossible to make every decision 100% correct; and to understand that it is very rare to have 100% of the evidence in front of your very nose prior to assessing a situation - then the Referee's intuition will make the decision for him. | | | Decisions made using instinct are very often proved to be correct. |
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http://www.carosi.freeserve.co.uk/corshamreferee/decide.htm
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| | SAGE Publications - Medical Decision Making |
| | Medical Decision Making offers rigorous and systematic approaches to decision making that are designed to improve the health and clinical care of individuals and to assist with health policy development. | | | Using the fundamentals of decision analysis and theory, economic evaluation, and evidence-based quality assessment, Medical Decision Making presents both theoretical and practical statistical and modeling techniques and methods from a variety of disciplines. | | | If you are involved in decision analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, patient preferences, quality of life research, decision psychology, or outcomes research, your easiest decision today is to subscribe to. |
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http://www.sagepub.com/journals/0272989X.htm
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| | Decision Making Techniques |
| | Which technique you choose for a given decision will be influenced by the importance and complexity of the decision. | | | For example: Decisions about what to do with your life, what to learn, or what methods to use to gain knowledge (travel, work, school) would be strategic. | | | The first three techniques are especially for whether-type decisions, those involving yes/no, either/or, or two-possibility decisions. |
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http://www.virtualsalt.com/crebook6.htm
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| | Group/Individual : Persuasion,decision,commitment -Rational Decision Making |
| | If you then consider, in reference to question 4, that acceptance of this decision by subordinates is also not critical, the method suggests you should make the decision on your own (i.e., choose method AI). | | | The bounded rationality model, however, suggests that people reduce problems and decisions to a level at which they can be understood. | | | Your role is much like that of facilitator, coordinating the discussion, keeping it focused on the problem and making sure that the critical issues are discussed. |
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http://www.implementer.com/implementer/web/step4_c/persuade-decrational.htm
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| | SPIRIT: Decision-Making Skills - HOOAH4HEALTH.com |
| | With practice, you can improve your ability to make sound decisions in all areas of your life - personal, financial and professional - because life involves many decisions and making the best choices consistently is the key to success. | | | But making your own decisions is the only way to take charge of your life - and your success. | | | Tools you can use to solve problems and make choices in your life. |
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http://www.hooah4health.com/spirit/decisions.htm
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| | Decision Making Skills |
| | Once you have mastered such techniques you will be able to make sound decisions in matters that effect you, such as your medical and rehabilitation treatment, and other quality of life issues. | | | Avoid making decisions when you are tired, hungry, or under stress or pressure of any sort. | | | The prospect of taking on responsibility for your self-management may seem unsafe and frightening to you especially if you are unaccustomed to taking charge of your life. |
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http://www.headinjury.com/problemdef.htm
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| | Decision Making/Problem Solving With Teens, HYG-5301-98 |
| | This is probably the most neglected step in decision making but it is critical to the learning process. | | | Teens need to make more and more of the decisions affecting them. | | | Parents want children to grow up to be independent, responsible, happy adults. |
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http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/5000/5301.html
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| | Effective Decision Making - Financial, Business and Management Decision Making from Mind Tools |
| | With these tools you will be able to map out the likely consequences of decisions, work out the importance of individual factors, and choose the best course of action to take. | | | In the first article, we look at Pareto Analysis, an important technique for identifying the most important changes to make when many demands are clamoring for our attention. | | | Mind Tools Career Coaches give you the focused personal help you need to make the very most of your career. |
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http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTED_00.htm
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| | Consensus Decision Making |
| | Once consensus does appear to have been reached, it really helps to have someone repeat the decision to the group so everyone is clear on what has been decided. | | | It gives everyone some experience with new processes of interaction and conflict resolution, which is basic but important skill-building. | | | Vibes-watchers need to be especially tuned in to the sexism of group dynamics. |
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http://www.actupny.org/documents/CDdocuments/Consensus.html
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| | Evidence-based Decision Making in Critical Care Medicine |
| | evidence-based medicine de-emphasizes intuition, unsystematic clinical experience and pathophysiologic rationale as sufficient grounds for clinical decision making and stresses the examination of evidence from clinical research. | | | "Evidence-based medicine is the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. | | | "The consideration of the evidence when making health care decisions at the level of the process, structure, program or system." |
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http://www.evidencebased.net
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| | Adaptive Decision Making |
| | Make incremental decisions to achieve an objective and avoid total commitment to a decision you cannot change. | | | You inform the case manager for their action, but continue to focus on the supporting the child with his/her homework | | | Focus on the future to uncover hidden opportunities and options. |
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http://www.studygs.net/problem/problem_adaptive_decisions.htm
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| | Society for Judgment and Decision Making Home Page |
| | The Society for Judgment and Decision Making is an interdisciplinary academic organization dedicated to the study of normative, descriptive, and prescriptive theories of decision. | | | Its members include psychologists, economists, organizational researchers, decision analysts, and other decision researchers. | | | Please provide us with comments and feedback about this page. |
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http://www.sjdm.org
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| | Step 3 CDM Career Services University of Waterloo |
| | Because of the importance of making the right choices for you, all the steps outlined in this Manual are critical elements in the decision-making process. | | | The decision-making process becomes much less onerous the more focused you are overall. | | | This decision-making model can by used for making many types of career-related decisions. |
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http://www.cdm.uwaterloo.ca/step3.asp
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| | OUHSC Family Medicine Center |
| | Rob Hamm, PhD, in the Clinical Decision Making Program, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. | | | Each spreadsheet performs a common calculation useful for clinical decisions or for analyzing data pertinent to clinical decisions. | | | You specify the base rate for a condition, the number of people screened, and the sensitivity and specificity of a screening test, and it displays a tree showing the numbers with/without the disease and with true and false screen results. |
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http://www.fammed.ouhsc.edu/robhamm/cdmcalc.htm
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| | TIP: Learning Domains |
| | A major focus of research on decision-making is the frequent departure from purely rational choices (e.g., Dawes, 1988; Kahneman, Slovic and Tversky, 1982). | | | On the other hand, social psychologists look at decision-making as a matter of conflict resolution and avoidance behaviors due to situational factors (e.g., Janis and Mann, 1977). | | | Indeed, Simon (1976) has made the case that "satisficing" (i.e., making a choice that is good enough) is the most common decision strategy. |
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http://tip.psychology.org/decision.html
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| | Medical Decision Making |
| | Medical Decision Making is devoted to the theory and practice of medical decision making. | | | SMDM members can view online the full text of articles appearing in Medical Decision Making: | | | Our journal, Medical Decision Making, is publishd bi-monthly by Sage Publications, Inc. |
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http://www.smdm.org/pubJournal.htm
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| | MDPME / A.O.P.D.M. / OBLR |
| | is dedicated to helping managers, administrators, court judges and other legal professionals, CEOs, business owners and all other professional decision-makers of all types avoid mental error in decision selection and fundamental prioritizing, with quotes by noted psychologists and authors - and links to their books. | | | We would encourage you to check out what | | | Articles posted at this site serve as reference tools that may be reviewed when making important decisions. |
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http://www.mdpme.com/home.htm
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| | MIT CSAIL Clinical Decision Making Group |
| | Because of the vital and crucial nature of medical practice, and the need for accurate and timely information to support clinical decisions, the group is also focused on the gathering, availability, security and use of medical information throughout the human "life cycle" and beyond. | | | The Clinical Decision Making Group at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science is a research group dedicated to exploring and furthering the application of technology and artificial intelligence to clinical situations. | | | To provide better health care through applied artificial intelligence. |
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http://medg.lcs.mit.edu
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| | Decision Analysis Society Home Page |
| | Such methods include models for decision-making under conditions of uncertainty or multiple objectives; techniques of risk analysis and risk assessment; experimental and descriptive studies of decision-making behavior; economic analysis of competitive and strategic decisions; techniques for facilitating decision-making by groups; and computer modeling software and expert systems for decision support. | | | The Field of Decision Analysis (references, journals, software, employment...) | | | The Society promotes the development and use of logical methods for the improvement of decision-making in public and private enterprise. |
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http://faculty.fuqua.duke.edu/daweb
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| | Business Ethics Institutions & Organizations |
| | (an outline of various ways to approach a decision provided by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics) | | | (This article attempts to explain the nature of moral decision making, and why various components are important. | | | "a procedure to help you make wiser prudential and ethical decisions" |
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http://www.ethicsweb.ca/resources/decision-making
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| | OFCN's Academy Curricular Exchange - Social Studies |
| | OBJECTIVES: Students will identify the problem, the choices and the consequences both positive and negative. | | | Distribute copies of "Decision Mountain." Inform students that they are going to make a decision by climbing the "Decision Mountain." By climbing the mountain they will learn the steps involved in decision making, while examining in further detail the problem presented in their story. | | | Discuss how decisions were made and why it solves the problem. |
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http://ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/soc/cecsst/cecsst113.html
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| | The Jakarta Site - The Jakarta Project |
| | Voters intending to veto an action item should make their opinions known to the group immediately so that the problem can be remedied as early as possible. | | | All Contributors are encouraged to participate in decisions, but the decision itself is made by those that have Committer status in the Project. | | | If you disagree with the veto, you should lobby the person who cast the veto. |
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http://jakarta.apache.org/site/decisions.html
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| | Decision Making |
| | Massive list of decision-making tools and analysis techniques (rather advanced and mathematical) | | | Basic Guidelines to Problem Solving and Decision Making | | | Essays About Modeling and Decision Making (rather advanced and mathematical) |
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http://www.managementhelp.org/prsn_prd/decision.htm
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