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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

As a curious child, I was always fascinated with one of our key, fundamental living skills: decision making. Growing up, I became more attentive in the way in which our society functions and fundamentally of how our thought process functions. What influences our thought process?...

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....

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...

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...

Introduction Psychopathy has widely been noted as a challenge for the law as it is a hard concept to formulate laws around protecting society, respecting a human agency and holding individual’s responsible for said agency (Fox et al, 2013 p.1). The issue of responsibility is...

The film “The Big Short” released in 2015 discusses how the mismanagement of government led to a global recession making thousands of people lose their jobs. It all started when financial institutions were a boring industry to work in. Until the arrival of Lewis Ranieri,...

Summary In these contemporary times, values hold a conspicuous place both in business ethics and in organization theory. However, there persists two considerable bewilderments; viz., firstly, about what these values are and secondly, what role they play in these theories. Therefore, need of the hour...

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...

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...

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...

According to Robert J. Greene, who is the CEO of Reward Systems Inc., “Performance management is the single largest contributor to organizational effectiveness. If you ignore performance management, you fail”. Atkinson et al. states that it is vital for PM to do the following: Assist...

When making decisions in personal and professional lives, one must identify and compare opportunity costs. When comparing options, it is important to analyze every cost and other opportunities that one must give up. Choosing between taking an absence from work, moving out of town and...

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:...

The public sector is part of the economy that is controlled by the state. It’s composed of both public enterprises and public services. Public enterprises, or state-owned enterprises, are self-financing commercial enterprises under public ownership; they provide various private goods and services for sale and...

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...

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...

Reason and Emotion or Intuition are equally necessary in making a decision. Reason is the drawing of inferences or conclusions from known or assumed facts. There is deductive reasoning, which is a form of reasoning that moves from the general to the specific or particular....

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...

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...