Essays on Decision Making

During a games’ week in high school, I decided to participate in a marathon with the hope of winning. The race was tough, but I managed to keep up my pace and be among the top four people leading in the race. As I approached...

In any decisions being made, the person who is at the centre of making that decision has to feel they are actively doing so. This is very important as I have seen too often service users left feeling they are just a passive attendee at...

The image of the boat sailing away into the sunset stating the quote, “Follow your heart. Don’t waste your life fulfilling someone else’s dreams and desires” is the picture that really stuck out to me. This image is strong in encouraging individuality, but it also...

There are four ways to approach the problem of choice. Inactive approach the leaderdoes nothing of result to settle on an astute decision. Essentially, thedecision is to give the issue a chance to determine itself. This approach letthe chips fall where they may—is very basic...

Decision making and team theory is a study that advises how to make the best choices with the distribution of expertise among the team members. Identifying the decision is the first step in decision-making that defines precisely the nature of choice that one must take....

The DMO(decision making operation) noticeable by 2 kinds of aspects: organizational & technical. The organizational aspect are those related to companies’ day 2 day function , where decisions should be made and aligned with the companies’ strategy. The technical aspect include the toolset used to...

Ethical decision making model has three components namely knowledge, skill, and attitude. When an ethical dilemma is presented to nurse both nursing and ethical knowledge are activated. The initial primary concern of the nurse is to understand the nature of the nursing problem. When the...

Decision making is an integral part of modern management. Fundamentally rational or sound decisions subconsciously or consciously making it as the critical component in the role of a manager. Decisions play essential roles as they determine both organizational and managerial activities. A choice can be...

You might be deciding if the job offer you received yesterday is the right move for you? or wrestling with whether to give your employee a low performance rating? or debating with your partner whether to confiscate the smart phone from your child? or giving...

Attention based view proposed by Ocasio (1997) was extended on Simon’s earlier work of organizational attention, providing detailed description of how organization’s concrete and contextual structures drive decision maker’s attention focus and its flow. Ocasio (1997) added two fundamental constructs for the situated attention and...

Despite the many studies investigating dishonest behaviour, the ecological validity in moral decision-making research is lacking. Many studies used paradigms of instructed lying and as a result the lying observed in these studies is different from more spontaneous forms of lying as it does not...

Just a mere decade ago, the majority of advertisers viewed the internet as unchartered territory – a gold mine with unimaginable potential just waiting to be mobilized and deployed. The influx of awareness has caused a major stir in the marketing world as now, the...

There are many elements in external influence can affect consumer’s decision making. For SQD Athletica there are three important external influence elements. On one hand, culture is one of the biggest elements. According to Babin and Harris (2018), Consumer culture represents a universal social belief...

First-time property investors take a lot of things into account before jumping onto a purchase, from financing to asset management, but one consideration ties all these up — risk factor. One investor shares how the ‘sleep test’ helped her get a good first investment property:...

Introduction Globalization has accelerated the rapid growth of global economies which are mostly consisted of cross-border trade cargos as well as services. The economic globalization has brought about the penetration of cross-border labor from different countries to the production level in companies (Gao, 2000). In...

If condition is not satisfied, that means, Then alternatives all are the same compromise solution, there is no comparative advantage of from others. But for the case of maximum value, the corresponding alternative is the compromise (closeness) solution. If condition is not satisfied, the stability...

Decision making can be defined as choosing a particular option from multiple alternatives, and it is often carried out in order to maximize certain desirable quantity, such as reward or utility. Decision making is one of the fundamental cognitive processes of human beings that is...

The purpose of this research is to try and understand how retargeting on the social media platform Instagram, can influence the consumer purchase decision. Instagram is of particular interest as research carried out by marketing firms across the UK, suggest that social media users between...

Algorithm management is a system where algorithm rather then humans decide how business operations should be performed. It was introduced as an attempt to explain how gig economies such as UBER manage their workers. There are different types of algorithms like the taxi algorithms, the...

Radio has been around for over a century, and even with the rise of digital media, it is still a powerful medium. Radio advertisements provide businesses an affordable mean to establish brand recognition to a target market. Additionally, advertisers use radio advertisement which incorporates to...

Values are what define people. Whether you know it or not, everyone has values that affect them every second of every day. Values affect your decision-making process and even how you interact with people. Everyone has a different journey through life and because of that...

What do you do when your heart says yes but your head says no. The heart refers to emotional decision making, a strong feeling, such as love, joy, anger, hate, or fear that helps you make a decision. While the head refers to logical decision...

Critical thinking is the objective analysis of facts to form a judgment. It involves five core skills: reasoning, analyzing, decision making, problem solving and evaluating. There are several reasons as to why I think studying critical thinking was essential to me. It is essential to...

Every day we are faced with the obstacle of making choices that range from what delicious recipe to make to what career path would be the best for my future. Each choice that we make has an opportunity cost and either takes an economic toll...

Introduction What did health specialists use to carry out investigations in their departments, how long did it take to carry out research, how long did they take to get back health records and how much did they use to make a follow up of patients...

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to bring forth examples of the moral values and philosophies I hold and use to guide my decision making skills. I examine the self-determining impacts of my personal moral philosophy on Ethical Decision Making. Agreed that Ethical Decision...

Michael J. Shapiro is an American nationalist and a Professor of the Political Sciences at the University of Hawaii. He is best known as an educator, theorist and writer. His works more often described as “post disciplinary”. International relation theory, comparative politics, sociology and indigenous...

Our conscience works as a voice in our minds that makes judgments on the moral stance of our actions, and creates our differentiation of good and evil. Through the psychoanalytical perspective, the conscience is known as a representation of your superego. This is because it...

Effective decision making is imperative in all healthcare events. While this decision making is typically composite and unstructured, it needs the decision maker to assemble multispectral information and data in order to make compelling decision when looked with various alternatives. Unstructured decision making in unique...

Sabermetric-based player evaluation is defined as “the search for objective knowledge about baseball” (James, 1980). The use of Sabermetric-based player evaluation is a shock to other executives in baseball because it challenged and defied their conventional wisdom, based on “The Book”, which they had relied...