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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. | | | Increasingly, research is being directed at decision making that takes realistic account of the compromises and approximations that must be made in order to fit real-world problems to the informational and computational limits of people and computers, as well as to the inconsistencies in their values and perceptions. |
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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. | | | However, aside from making decisions, because of many kinds of uncertainties we also face a problem called decidophobia, which is the fear of making the wrong decisions combined with nervous agitation. | | | Therefore worrying about making a decision is a waste of time. |
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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. | | | When a Refereeing decision is required during a game - making a bad decision is better than making an unsure decision - and making a bad decision is certainly better than making no decision at all. | | | 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. |
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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. | | | Medical Decision Making focuses on important topics such as: |
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http://www.sagepub.com/journals/0272989X.htm
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| | Decision Making Techniques |
| | If you discover that nearly all of your thinking and decision making is taking place at the operational level, then you are probably not doing enough strategic thinking and planning. | | | This method of decision making is used when two or more equally attractive alternatives are faced. | | | Which technique you choose for a given decision will be influenced by the importance and complexity of the decision. |
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http://www.virtualsalt.com/crebook6.htm
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| | Group/Individual : Persuasion,decision,commitment -Rational Decision Making |
| | A classic contingency method of decision-making, was first proposed by Vroom and Yetton (1973) and later modified by Vroom and Jago (1988). | | | 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. |
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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. | | | Making a decision is easy - but making the RIGHT one requires skill and knowledge. |
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http://www.hooah4health.com/spirit/decisions.htm
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| | Decision Making Skills |
| | Avoid making decisions when you are tired, hungry, or under stress or pressure of any sort. | | | Good decision making skills are important to the success of self-management. | | | 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. |
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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. | | | Decision making is an important skill to learn because we make decisions every day, big and little. | | | How can you, as a parent, help them learn decision-making skills? |
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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 |
| | The books on the right-hand sidebar are Amazon.com's best sellers in the decision making skills area - if you found this article useful, these books will take your knowledge even further, ensuring that you are up-to-date with the latest thinking in the field. | | | This article is one of a series on Decision Making Skills - click here for to see other good decision making skills. | | | These techniques build on the tools discussed in the section on Problem Solving Tools, in that Decision Making follows on from an understanding of the situation. |
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http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTED_00.htm
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| | Consensus Decision Making |
| | The facilitator(s) aids the group in defining decisions that need to be made, helps them through the stages of reaching an agreement, keeps the meeting moving, focuses discussion to the point-at hand; makes sure everyone has the opportunity to participate, and formulates and tests to see if consensus has been reached. | | | Even though individuals take on these roles, all participants in a meeting should be aware of and involved in the issues, process, and feelings of the group, and should share their individual expertise in helping the group run smoothly and reach a decision. | | | 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. |
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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. | | | Spread risk by avoiding decisions that lock you into a single choice if you are not prepared to commit. | | | If an immediate decision isn't necessary and there's time to develop options, go slow or let it wait. |
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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. | | | Visit the home page of Judgment and Decision Making, the new journal of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making. | | | It also publishes the journal Judgment and Decision Making. |
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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. | | | Presentation (European Society for Medical Decision Making, 1999) | | | Each spreadsheet performs a common calculation useful for clinical decisions or for analyzing data pertinent to clinical decisions. |
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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 |
| | Articles posted at this site serve as reference tools that may be reviewed when making important decisions. | | | 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. | | | has to offer and search for the titles at your local library before making a purchase! |
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http://www.mdpme.com/home.htm
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| | MIT CSAIL Clinical Decision Making Group |
| | 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. | | | 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. | | | To provide better health care through applied artificial intelligence. |
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http://medg.lcs.mit.edu
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| | Business Ethics Institutions & Organizations |
| | (This article attempts to explain the nature of moral decision making, and why various components are important. | | | Thinking Ethically: A Framework for Moral Decision Making, | | | (an outline of various ways to approach a decision provided by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics) |
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http://www.ethicsweb.ca/resources/decision-making
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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 Society promotes the development and use of logical methods for the improvement of decision-making in public and private enterprise. | | | The Field of Decision Analysis (references, journals, software, employment...) |
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http://faculty.fuqua.duke.edu/daweb
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| | OFCN's Academy Curricular Exchange - Social Studies |
| | 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. | | | TITLE: DECISION MAKING AUTHOR: LEZLIE A. GRADE LEVEL: Appropriate for students 4th-6th grade OVERVIEW: Conflict resolution is a trend to which students need to become familiar. | | | 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 |
| | All Contributors are encouraged to participate in decisions, but the decision itself is made by those that have Committer status in the 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. | | | 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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| | Ethical Decision-Making in the Military Decision-Making Process |
| | Education in ethics and training in the application of the ethical decision-making model in all manner of moral dilemmas in various practical situations can contribute to lending a sound ethical basis to the individual’s judgement and creativity. | | | The ethical decision-making model may be an important aid in this regard. | | | Furthermore, the ethical decision-making model can also play a significant role when accounting - after the event - for a decision taken; this is expected of military personnel to an increasing extent. |
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http://atlas.usafa.af.mil/jscope/JSCOPE00/Tanercan00.html
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| | Ethical Decision Making |
| | Ethical Decision Making I examines the implications of professional ethics and personal ethics with regard to goals of the discipline of cued language transliteration. | | | This module provides students with an opportunity to engage in more advanced ethical decision making as it applies to the cued language transliteration profession. | | | Because ethical behavior is inherent in the Cued Language Transliterator Code of Conduct, it is important to track situational applications of the Code of Conduct in terms of the professional's decision-making process. |
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http://www.language-matters.com/ethics.php3
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