Essays on Decision

In engineering design or decision making problems, a large number of feasible solutions are available and to choose the solution which is the best one from this set, we need to concentrate on the uncertainty associated with the variables that lead to the optimal solution....

Introduction In this paper I will discuss the case from the perspective of Hebert, Dworkin and Dresser. Then I will give my opinion as to how the doctor and the son should proceed. Hebert Hebert defines competence as “an assessment of functional capacities”. A set...

In the 21st century a family cannot sustain on single earner. There are various push and pull factors which makes a women want to work; the push factors being economic status of the family and the pull factors being self-esteem, financial independence, recognition etc. On...

Everybody has either experienced an event or made an important decision that will affect their life positively. One critical decision that I made that has, and will impact me for the rest of my life came in early 2016, when I was fifteen years old....

Reverse logistics (RL) has gained popularity over the recent years due to the advancement of technology and also due to the associated economic, social, and environmental benefits. RL is a process that consists of series of operations that begin at the consumer level with the...

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...

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?...

Introduction The Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the United States Surgeon General together has declared suicide to be a public health crisis (Whitlock, Wyman, & Moore, 2014). Teenagers and young adults are especially susceptible to suicidal behaviors and ideation due to the changes...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Decision analysis is one of the most methodology applied in firms and organizations with the efforts to handle uncertainty and risks which may occur in particular group. The various approach is put in place so as to ensure proper decisions that will lead to the...

In this paper, I will address whether or not it was ethical for A.M. Rosenthal, editor-in-chief of The New York Times to publish the Pentagon Papers. On the one hand, it was ethical because the Pentagon Papers contained crucial information of national importance, the publication...

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...