Fostering constructive thinking about the ‘wicked problems’ of team-work and decision-making in tourism and geography

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Mehmet Şeremet ◽  
Martin Haigh ◽  
Emine Cihangir
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Wicked Problems ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Constructive Thinking

scholarly journals The Wickedness of Rittel and Webber’s Dilemmas

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (6) ◽  
pp. 960-979
Author(s):  
Udo Pesch ◽  
Pieter E. Vermaas
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Wicked Problems ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Opportunities To Learn

Rittel and Webber connected their notion of “wicked problems” to three fundamental planning dilemmas. Many approaches within public administration theory have explicitly addressed wicked problems yet hardly paid attention to the dilemmas. We revisit the planning dilemmas to find out their potential relevance for current administration theory and practice. We argue that the dilemmas evolve out of the current institutional setup, meaning that wicked problems cannot be resolved by better administrative frameworks or methods. Rather societal matters are to be included in decision-making, for instance, by seeing societal opposition as opportunities to learn to deal with the planning dilemmas.

Do Public Enterprises Need a Corporate Strategy?

1987 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
K R S Murthy
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Corporate Strategy ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Strategic Decision Making ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Public Enterprises ◽  
Strategic Competence ◽  
The Public ◽  
Low Level

A large gap has arisen between the stated objectives of the public enterprises in India and their achievements, largely owing to inherent conflicts in their strategic decision making process. In this article, K R S Murthy stresses that any public enterprise's strategic competence depends on the interplay among three actors (managers, bureaucrats, and politicians) with diverse motivations, careers, and systems. Team work with common values and commitment among the three actors alone can improve the low level of strategic competence. Since the prerequisites for strategic formulations are riot met in public enterprises, it is a debatable point whether they should have a corporate strategy at all.

scholarly journals Scenario analysis to support decision making in addressing wicked problems: Pitfalls and potential

2019 ◽  
Vol 278 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Wright ◽  
George Cairns ◽  
Frances A. O'Brien ◽  
Paul Goodwin
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Scenario Analysis ◽  
Wicked Problems ◽  
Support Decision Making

A moral compass framework for resolution of wicked problems in doctoral education and supervision

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 355-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Bowden ◽  
Pam Green
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Doctoral Education ◽  
Wicked Problems ◽  
Capability Development ◽  
Individual Decision ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Moral Compass ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Multi Level

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to design and explain a moral compass framework that informs decision-making by those engaged in shaping the doctoral education and supervision environment. Design/methodology/approach – The research involved analysis of transcripts of 50 interviews with a range of doctoral students and supervisors. The framework was derived from the integration of the transcript analysis with a range of theoretical constructs: Rittel and Webber’s (1973) “wicked” problems; Bowden’s (2004) capability for the unknown future; Baillie et al.’s (2013) threshold capability development; liminality (Meyer and Land 2006); mindfulness (Langer and Moldoveanu, 2000; Green and Bowden, 2012); as well as our interpretation of moral compass and collective morality. Findings – Although applicable to a wide range of contexts, with broader, potentially universal implications for professional life, the framework is explained using the doctoral education system as example, and supervisor and candidate experiences as illustration. It relates individual decision-making to notions of collective morality and moral development within a multi-level system, through moral advocacy and moral mediation, activities identified as necessary at all levels of the doctoral system. Originality/value – Our framework demonstrates the need for developing awareness of the multi-factorial nature of the wicked problems that arise in doctoral education and the requirement to address such problems across all levels – individual, organisational and national. We identified the central importance of a new construct – collective morality and the way that moral advocacy and moral mediation can contribute to resolution of such wicked problems in doctoral education and supervision.

scholarly journals Lessons From the Pandemic: Engaging Wicked Problems With Transdisciplinary Deliberation

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 164-171
Author(s):  
Miles Coleman ◽  
Susana Santos ◽  
Joy Cypher ◽  
Claude Krummenacher ◽  
Robert Fleming
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Wicked Problems ◽  
Public Deliberation ◽  
Academic Departments ◽  
Collaborative Effort ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Communication Course ◽  
Participatory Decision Making ◽  
Large Complex

Some crises, such as those brought on or exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, are wicked problems—large, complex problems with no immediate answer. As such, they make rich centerpieces for learning with respect to public deliberation and issue-based dialogue. This essay reflects on an experimental, transdisciplinary health and science communication course entitled Comprehending COVID-19. The course represents a collaborative effort among 14 faculty representing 10 different academic departments to create a resource for teaching students how to deliberate the pandemic, despite its attending, oversaturated, fake-news-infused, infodemic. We offer transdisciplinary deliberation as a pedagogical framework to expand communication repertoires in ways useful for sifting through the messiness of an infodemic while also developing key deliberation skills for productively engaging participatory decision-making with concern to wicked problems.

scholarly journals FMADM: YAGER MODEL IN FUZZY DECISION MAKING

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Kisworo Kisworo
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Standard Form ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Fuzzy Decision Making ◽  
Multi Criteria Decision Making ◽  
Fuzzy Decision ◽  
Multi Objective ◽  
Decisionmaking Process ◽  
Decision Environment

This paper presents Yager model, i.e. standard form of Fuzzy Multi-Atributte Decision Making (FMADM) in fuzzy decision environment. Simulasion of this model would be performed under scope of fuzzy decisionmaking process to show its existence. As academics, researchers, and practitioners know on it, besides theFMADM, so is there Fuzzy Multi-Objective Decision Making (FMODM) at where the both has their same derivation, e.i. Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision Making (FMCDM). Related to the matter, significant value that could be represented then gives contribution to team work-oriented principal of decision makers.Keywords: Yager Model, FMADM, FMODM, FMCDM, fuzzy decision-making.

scholarly journals Energy Efficiency as a Wicked Problem

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 1569 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrik Thollander ◽  
Jenny Palm ◽  
Johan Hedbrant
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Wicked Problems ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Wicked Problem ◽  
Barriers To Energy Efficiency ◽  
Critical Model ◽  
Energy Efficiency Potential

Together with increased shares of renewable energy supply, improved energy efficiency is the foremost means of mitigating climate change. However, the energy efficiency potential is far from being realized, which is commonly explained by the existence of various barriers to energy efficiency. Initially mentioned by Churchman, the term “wicked problems” became established in the 1970s, meaning a kind of problem that has a resistance to resolution because of incomplete, contradictory, or changing requirements. In the academic literature, wicked problems have later served as a critical model in the understanding of various challenges related to society, such as for example climate change mitigation. This aim of this paper is to analyze how the perspective of wicked problems can contribute to an enhanced understanding of improved energy efficiency. The paper draws examples from the manufacturing sector. Results indicate that standalone technology improvements as well as energy management and energy policy programs giving emphasis to standalone technology improvements may not represent a stronger form of a wicked problem as such. Rather, it seems to be the actual decision-making process involving values among the decision makers as well as the level of needed knowledge involved in decision-making that give rise to the “wickedness”. The analysis shows that wicked problems arise in socio-technical settings involving several components such as technology, systems, institutions, and people, which make post-normal science a needed approach.

Linking Traditional ‘Organic’ and ‘Induced’ Public Participation with Deliberative Democracy: Experiments in Pune, India

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-214
Author(s):  
Sanskriti Menon ◽  
Janette Hartz-Karp
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Wicked Problems ◽  
Collaborative Dialogue ◽  
Governance Systems ◽  
Sustainability Challenges ◽  
Indian Cities

Resolving urban challenges or ‘wicked problems’ is a dilemma for most governments, especially in developing countries, and India is a case in point. Collaborative, dialogue-based approaches have been posited as critical to addressing wicked problems. This would require a reform of Indian cities’ governance systems to enable citizens to be embedded in decision-making about complex issues. This article contends that while India’s traditional forms of civic participation can provide a strong foundation for reform, new forms of representative deliberative, influential public participation, that is, deliberative democracy, will be important. Traditional organic and induced participation examples in India are overviewed in terms of their strengths and gaps. Two deliberative democracy case studies in Pune, India, are described, and their potential for reform is assessed. Traditional, together with innovative, induced and organic participation in governance, will be needed to overcome significant pitfalls in governance if Indian cities are to become more capable of addressing urban sustainability challenges.

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