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Revision as of 16:49, 16 June 2020
Decision-making (alternatively spelled, decision making) is the action, process, and/or creative behavior of making decisions.
Contents
Decisions
Any decision is a choice made from among two or more alternatives. The criteria that define what's important or relevant to resolving a problem are known as decision criteria. The freedom to decide what should be done in a particular situation is known as decisional discretion.
Programmed vs non-programmed
- Programmed decision. Any decision to follow a policy, operative rule, another regulation, or to routinely repeat one's previous decision that has been made while handling a similarly structured task.
- Non-programmed decision (creative decision). A unique and nonrecurring decision that requires a custom-made solution.
Individual vs collective
- Individual decision-making. Decision-making made by an individual as opposed to group decision-making.
- Group decision-making. Decision-making made by a group as opposed to individual decision-making.
Problem-solving vs sounding
Tasks
- Importance of being accurate. How important is being very exact or highly accurate in performing this job?
- Work virtualization. The degree to which work is done remotely rather than at some specific physical location.
Structured vs unstructured
- Task structure. One of Fiedler's situational contingencies that describes the degree to which job assignments are formalized and structured.
Error-untenable vs error-tolerant
- Consequence of error. How serious would the result usually be if the worker made a mistake that was not readily correctable?
Competitive vs non-competitive
- Level of competition. To what extent does this job require the worker to compete or to be aware of competitive pressures?
Impactful vs uninfluential
- Impact on enterprise. What results do your decisions usually have on other people or the image or reputation or financial resources of your employer?
Factors
Forcing vs backgrounding
Controlled vs uncontrolled
- Situational control. The capacity of a decision maker to manage the situation and estimate the likelihood of certain outcomes.
- Certainty. A situation in which a decision maker can make accurate decisions because all the data and outcomes are known.
- Uncertainty. A situation in which a decision maker has neither certainty nor reasonable probability estimates available.
Internal vs external
- Core self-evaluation. Bottom-line conclusions individuals have about their capacities, competence, and worth as a person. In other words, self-believing in one's inner worth and basic competence.
- General mental ability. An overall factor of intelligence, as suggested by the positive correlations among specific intellectual ability dimensions.
- Emotion.
- Mood.
Resources
Sufficient vs deficient data
Adequate vs inadequate tools
Time-pressing vs time-insensitive
- Time pressure. How often does this job require the worker to meet strict deadlines? How important is it to this job that the pace is determined by the speed of equipment or machinery? (This does not refer to keeping busy at all times on this job.)
Approaches
Decision-making approach. A particular manner of taking preliminary steps toward making a decision.
Rational
- Rational decision-making. Decision-making that produces choices that are logical and consistent and maximize value.
- Rationale. A reasoning characterized by making consistent, value-maximizing choices within specified constraints.
- Rational decision-making model. A decision-making model that describes how individuals may rationally behave in order to maximize the outcomes from the decision.
DREPD GOFER DECIDE Seven-step decision-making Discover Goals clarification. Define the problem. Outline your goal and outcome. Establish all the criteria (constraints). Gather data. Options generation. Develop alternatives. Research Facts-finding. Consider all the alternatives. Consideration of Effects List pros and cons of each alternative. Envision Review and implementation. Identify the best alternative. Make the decision. Plan Develop and implement a plan of action Immediately take action to implement it. Do and discover again Evaluate and monitor the solution and examine feedback when necessary Learn from and reflect on the decision. - Seven-step decision-making. A rational decision-making model that consists of seven steps.
Intuitive
- Intuitive decision-making. Unconscious decision-making on the basis of distilled experience, feelings, and accumulated judgment.
- Intuition. An instinctive feeling not necessarily supported by research.
Ad hoc
- Ad hoc decision-making.
- Design thinking. Approaching management problems as designers approach design problems.
- Heuristic. A rule of thumb that decision makers use to simplify decision-making.
Tendencies
Optimizing vs. satisficing
- Satisfice. Acceptance of solutions that are "good enough."
Conservative vs aggressive
- Allostasis. Working to change behavior and attitude to find stability.
- Risk aversion. The tendency to prefer a sure gain of a moderate amount over a riskier outcome, even if the riskier outcome might have a higher expected payoff.
Process types
Agile vs rigid
Linear vs nonlinear
Thorough vs shortcut
- Bounded rationality. Decision-making that is rational, but limited (bounded) by an individual's ability to process information. In other words, bounded rationality is a process of making decisions by constructing simplified models that extract the essential features from problems without capturing all their complexity.
- Escalation of commitment. An increased commitment to a previous decision despite evidence it may have been wrong.
Considerations
Decision-making dilemma. Optimizing vs. satisficing, intuitive vs rational vs ad hoc, Agile vs rigid, conservative vs aggressive, linear vs nonlinear
Self-regulation
- Self-regulation strategy.
- Prevention focus. A self-regulation strategy that involves striving for goals by fulfilling duties and obligations.
- Promotion focus. A self-regulation strategy that involves striving for goals through advancement and accomplishment.
Ethics
- Ethical dilemma. A situation in which individuals are required to define right and wrong conduct.
- Ethics. Principles, values, and beliefs that define what is right and wrong behavior.
- Behavioral ethics. Analyzing how people actually behave when confronted with ethical dilemmas.