scholarly journals ‘Between a Rock and a Hard Place’: The Implications of Lost Autonomy and Trust for Professionals at Sea

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 648-665 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Sampson ◽  
Nelson Turgo ◽  
Iris Acejo ◽  
Neil Ellis ◽  
Lijun Tang
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Shipping Industry ◽  
Hard Place

This article describes changes associated with increased bureaucratisation and surveillance in the regulation and management of the 21st century shipping industry. Drawing upon 303 ‘real-life’ vignette-based interviews, it describes how these transformations are experienced by contemporary navigating officers, and engineers, working on commercial cargo vessels. The article draws attention to the dysfunctional effects of distrust in organisations, describing how lost trust and associated fears impact on the decision-making process of officers thereby inducing a degree of organisational paralysis. This finding may be of particular significance to employers who have introduced punishment-centred bureaucratisation in order to improve organisational efficiency and who are concurrently undermining it.

Neutrosophic Soft Block Matrices And Some Of Its Properties

2020 ◽  
pp. 39-49
Author(s):  
admin admin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Mathematical Tool ◽  
Soft Sets ◽  
Neutrosophic Sets ◽  
Block Matrices ◽  
Inconsistent Information

In real life situations, there are many issues in which there are uncertainties, vagueness, complexities and unpredictability. Neutrosophic sets are a mathematical tool to address some issues which cannot be met using the existing methods. Neutrosophic soft matrices play a crucial role in handling indeterminant and inconsistent information during decision making process. The main focus of this article is to discuss the concept of neutrosophic sets, neutrosophic soft sets, neutrosophic soft matrices theory and finally to discuss about neutrosophic soft block matrics which are very useful and applicable in various situations involving uncertainties and imprecisions. In this article, neutrosophic soft block matrices, various types of neutrosophic soft block matrices, some operations on it along with some properties associated with it are discussed in details.

Zur ökonomischen Analyse moralkonformen Handelns

1995 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Leschke
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Economic Theory ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Social Dilemma ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Wide Spread ◽  
Economic Perspective ◽  
Moral Dimension ◽  
Moral Behaviour ◽  
Moral Attitudes

AbstractHis article deals with general features of moral behaviour from an economic perspective. Moral rules act as an enforcement mechanism replacing external sanctions with internal emotional sanctions such as guilt and shame. It is shown in many experiments and real life situations that morals influence the decision-making process and the outcomes. Moral attitudes help to overcome social dilemma situations if the actors’ intrinsic motivation is relatively high and if these moral attitudes are wide-spread. It is argued that to reject the moral dimension means to restrict the relevance of economic theory. This paper emphasizes the importance of moral behaviour and offers a simple model of the effects of morality.

Outsourcing and Escalation Issues in VLITPs

2009 ◽  
pp. 172-187
Author(s):  
Matthew Guah
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Strategic Alliances ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Popular Belief ◽  
Full Cost ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Widespread Phenomenon ◽  
Host Organization

VLITP escalation has been documented to be a widespread phenomenon in the 21st century. Nearly every research in this area has portrayed escalation as an irrational decision-making process whereby additional resources are plowed into a failing project. This chapter examines the possibility that some of these escalation issues could be appropriately managed by avoiding irrational actions and rationally responding to various situations that may occur in a VLITP. Later on in the chapter, the author disperses popular belief that VLITP outsourcing is in the nature of partnership and strategic alliances. It exposes that VLITP outsourcing vendors do not share the same profit motives as the host organization who is meant to enjoy the benefits of the VLITP and therefore baring the full cost of the implementation. It further suggests that a tight contract is the only mechanism to ensure that expectations of the host organization are met. Host organizations must negotiate and agree that the contract contains a number key issues including a successful outsourcing relationship between the host organization and the outsourcing vendor.

scholarly journals Fostering Palliative Care Through Digital Intervention: A Platform for Adult Patients With Hematologic Malignancies

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lefteris Koumakis ◽  
Fatima Schera ◽  
Heather Parker ◽  
Panos Bonotis ◽  
Maria Chatzimina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Palliative Care ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Hematologic Malignancies ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Joint Decision ◽  
Horizon 2020 ◽  
Patient Reported ◽  
Potential Impact

Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are an emerging paradigm in clinical research and healthcare, aiming to capture the patient's self-assessed health status in order to gauge efficacy of treatment from their perspective. As these patient-generated health data provide insights into the effects of healthcare processes in real-life settings beyond the clinical setting, they can also be viewed as a resolution beyond what can be gleaned directly by the clinician. To this end, patients are identified as a key stakeholder of the healthcare decision making process, instead of passively following their doctor's guidance. As this joint decision-making process requires constant and high-quality communication between the patient and his/her healthcare providers, novel methodologies and tools have been proposed to promote richer and preemptive communication to facilitate earlier recognition of potential complications. To this end, as PROs can be used to quantify the patient impact (especially important for chronic conditions such as cancer), they can play a prominent role in providing patient-centric care. In this paper, we introduce the MyPal platform that aims to support adults suffering from hematologic malignancies, focusing on the technical design and highlighting the respective challenges. MyPal is a Horizon 2020 European project aiming to support palliative care for cancer patients via the electronic PROs (ePROs) paradigm, building upon modern eHealth technologies. To this end, MyPal project evaluate the proposed eHealth intervention via clinical studies and assess its potential impact on the provided palliative care. More specifically, MyPal platform provides specialized applications supporting the regular answering of well-defined and standardized questionnaires, spontaneous symptoms reporting, educational material provision, notifications etc. The presented platform has been validated by end-users and is currently in the phase of pilot testing in a clinical study to evaluate its feasibility and its potential impact on the quality of life of palliative care patients with hematologic malignancies.

Flaws and Advantages of the Polish Local Self-Government in the 21st Century: Social Consultations at the Local Level

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-37
Author(s):  
Edyta Sokalska
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Exchange Of Information ◽  
Local Problems ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Administrative Units

The purpose of the article is to present the Polish empire concerning the creation and development of local self-government in the post-communist political regime, and the development of some modern forms of social consultations, particularly at the local level. In many administrative units, it might be observed that the bonds between local societies and local authorities have been strengthened during the last years. Polish local self-governmental bodies develop some new forms and tools of communication. They provide municipalities with the freedom of participation in a decision-making process, and they give the opportunity to faster exchange of information and answers to the local problems.

The Business Transformation Framework on Knowledge and Intelligence-Driven Development (KIDD)

2021 ◽  
pp. 373-391
Author(s):  
Antoine Trad ◽  
Damir Kalpic
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Mathematical Model ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Multidisciplinary Research ◽  
Business Transformation

This chapter's authors based their research on an authentic and proprietary mixed multidisciplinary research method that is supported by intelligent neural networks combined with a heuristics module, they are named the Applied Mathematical Model (AMM). Where the proposed AMM is similar to the human empiric decision-making process, the AMM is supported by a real life case of a business transformation architecture in the domain of Knowledge and Intelligence Driven Development (KIDD) that is supported by the alignment of a various standards and technologies.

Vehicular Traffic Forecasting in Filling Station

2017 ◽  
pp. 243-262
Author(s):  
Peeyush Pandey ◽  
Tuhin Sengupta
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Future Trend ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Traffic Forecasting ◽  
Single Data ◽  
The One ◽  
Forecasting Techniques

Forecasting is the one of the important part of decision making process. It helps managers to identify short term and long term future trends in the business activities. It may help in forecasting demand in retail store, predicting customer traffic at the petrol pump, calculation of probable population in upcoming years etc. There are plenty of studies published on forecasting techniques which are just introductory or highly mathematical and lacks in providing managerial perspective of solving business problems to the students. This chapter elucidates various forecasting techniques and its application in the field of management. In addition, various examples of real life problems are solved and analyzed with multiple forecasting techniques. Through this chapter students will have a clear understanding of the various nuances of different forecasting models in one single data set. Students will be able to identify future trend and seasonality in real life data set and evaluate more appropriate forecasting technique for the decision-making process.

scholarly journals Person-Centred Care Including Deprescribing for Older People

Pharmacy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Smith ◽  
Karen Miller ◽  
Nina Barnett ◽  
Lelly Oboh ◽  
Emyr Jones ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Older People ◽  
Shared Decision Making ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Shared Decision ◽  
Good Communication ◽  
Values And Beliefs

There is concern internationally that many older people are using an inappropriate number of medicines, and that complex combinations of medicines may cause more harm than good. This article discusses how person-centred medicines optimisation for older people can be conducted in clinical practice, including the process of deprescribing. The evidence supports that if clinicians actively include people in decision making, it leads to better outcomes. We share techniques, frameworks, and tools that can be used to deprescribe safely whilst placing the person’s views, values, and beliefs about their medicines at the heart of any deprescribing discussions. This includes the person-centred approach to deprescribing (seven steps), which incorporates the identification of the person’s priorities and the clinician’s priorities in relation to treatment with medication and promotes shared decision making, agreed goals, good communication, and follow up. The authors believe that delivering deprescribing consultations in this manner is effective, as the person is integral to the deprescribing decision-making process, and we illustrate how this approach can be applied in real-life case studies.

Power Differentials in Istanbul Redevelopment Practices: Toward a More Collaborative Decision-Making Process

2020 ◽  
pp. 0739456X1989822
Author(s):  
Imge Akcakaya Waite
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Urban Redevelopment ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Planning Practice ◽  
Life Planning ◽  
Power Differentials ◽  
Collaborative Decision ◽  
Regeneration Processes

This article examines two urban redevelopment projects in Istanbul in an attempt to address the gap between literature and real-life planning practice in their understanding of power relations and imbalances in collaborative forums. Based on insights from informed practitioners, residents, and activists, it presents the realities—project stories, actors and their perceptions, motives, influences, and lessons—faced in gecekondu renewal and earthquake-based regeneration processes. It suggests a set of redevelopment strategies and responses that highlight democratic and collaborative criteria to overcome power-related challenges and foster a more just redistribution of power.

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