A SIMULATION STUDY OF DECENTRALIZED DECISION MAKING

OBJECTIVE: This study aims to address difficulties reported by the nursing team during the process of changing the management model in a public hospital in Brazil. METHODS: This qualitative study used thematic content analysis as proposed by Bardin, and data were analyzed using the theoretical framework of Bolman and Deal. RESULTS: The vertical implementation of Participatory Management contradicted its underlying philosophy and thereby negatively influenced employee acceptance of the change. The decentralized structure of the Participatory Management Model was implemented but shared decision-making was only partially utilized. Despite facilitation of the communication process within the unit, more significant difficulties arose from lack of communication inter-unit. Values and principals need to be shared by teams, however, that will happens only if managers restructure accountabilities changing job descriptions of all team members. CONCLUSION: Innovative management models that depart from the premise of decentralized decision-making and increased communication encourage accountability, increased motivation and satisfaction, and contribute to improving the quality of care. The contribution of the study is that it describes the complexity of implementing an innovative management model, examines dissent and intentionally acknowledges the difficulties faced by employees in the organization.

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Comment: Decentralized decision making through adaptive minimax regret-Complex yet intuitively appealing

Health Economics ◽

10.1002/hec.3807 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 27 (10) ◽

pp. 1428-1430

Author(s):

Emma McIntosh

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Minimax Regret ◽

Decentralized Decision Making

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Financing and pricing strategies of construction supply chain under capital constraint

MATEC Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/matecconf/202133609004 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 336 ◽

pp. 09004

Author(s):

Yuxin Wen ◽

Linyi Wu ◽

Fengmin Yao

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Supply Chain ◽

Stackelberg Game ◽

Distribution Model ◽

Pricing Strategies ◽

External Financing ◽

Pricing Decision ◽

Decentralized Decision Making ◽

Internal Financing ◽

Decision Making Model

Affected by factors such as cost, the financial constraints faced by the supply chain are becoming more and more severe. This paper constructs a financing and pricing decision-making model for the construction supply chain under capital constraints, and uses Stackelberg game theory to analyze and obtain the best financing and pricing strategy for the construction supply chain under the internal and external financing modes. The study found that when centralized decision-making is adopted, there is a profit distribution model that makes the profits obtained by construction developers and contractors greater than the profits obtained in decentralized decision-making; the internal financing model of the construction supply chain is better than external financing, and can enable the construction supply chain get higher profits.

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Informational Openness Enhances Decentralized Decision-Making: A Cognitive Agent Based Study

10.31234/osf.io/uma4b ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Joshua Skewes ◽

Dorthe Døjbak Håkonsson ◽

Trine Bilde ◽

Andreas Roepstorff

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Group Performance ◽

Decision Processes ◽

Abstract Entity ◽

Collaborative Decision Making ◽

Distributed Information ◽

Decentralized Decision Making ◽

Or Organization ◽

Gains And Losses ◽

Collaborative Decision

Collaborative decision making is central to the organization of society. Juries deliberate cases, voters elect government officials, open innovation networks converge on innovative solutions. It is common to think of such groups as decision making entities. But this language is imprecise. Real decision processes do not occur within any group or organization as an abstract entity. Collaborative decision making happens within and between autonomous individuals. This emphasizes the importance of the relationships between individual and social decision-making processes to social organization. Despite a rich body of literature on collaborative decision making we know little about how individuals decide to commit to group decision making in the first place, and how, once joined, they communicate their distributed information for optimal group performance. We introduce a general framework designed to model collaborative decision processes. Our main results are that 1) commitment and gain is enhanced when groups are designed so agents have realistic knowledge about the forgone gains and losses associated with abstaining from the group; and 2) that this effect is accelerated when communication between group members conveys more information about individual preferences. We thus demonstrate that collaborative decision making is done best when it is done by groups that are informationally open.

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Dynamics of Military Conflict: an Economics Perspective

Review of Economics ◽

10.1515/roe-2014-0205 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 65 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Klaus B. Beckmann ◽

Lennart Reimer

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Differential Games ◽

Simulation Study ◽

Economic Model ◽

Dynamic Games ◽

Rational Decision ◽

Military Conflict ◽

Rational Decision Making ◽

Contest Success Functions ◽

Military Theory

AbstractThis paper is concerned with methods for analysing patterns of conflict. We survey dynamic games, differential games, and simulation as alternative ways of extending the standard static economic model of conflict to study patterns of conflict dynamics, giving examples for each type of model.It turns out that computational requirements and theoretical difficulties impose tight limits on what can be achieved using the first two approaches. In particular, we appear to be forced to model the outcome of conflict as being decided in a single final confrontation if we employ non-linear contest success functions.A simulation study based on a new model of adaptive, boundedly rational decision making, however, is shown not to be subject to this limitation. Plausible patterns of conflict dynamics emerge, which we can link to both historical conflict and standard tenets of military theory.

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