scholarly journals Ergonomics Applied on Drilling Centers in the Brazilian Oil Industry

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Ferreira ◽  
Claudio Lima ◽  
Gilson Lima ◽  
Luís Zotes ◽  
Danilo Vieira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Oil Industry ◽  
Multidisciplinary Teams ◽  
Collaborative Environments ◽  
Considerable Potential ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Impact

Drilling centers are collaborative environments dedicated to facilitate decision-making in the well construction, where multidisciplinary teams work to support operations. The oil operators usually have drilling centers with different types of ergonomic features with considerable potential of integration, creating the opportunity to an Ergonomic Workplace Analysis. This paper aims to present the analysis of infrastructure requirements of one specific company in Brazil. The method was based on a survey with employees, which, coped with a statistical analysis, enabled understanding the impact of the layout requirements. The result is an approach to design collaborative environments, standardizing and defining models for the industry.

Quota Women Are Threatening to Men

2017 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 107-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klea Faniko ◽  
Till Burckhardt ◽  
Oriane Sarrasin ◽  
Fabio Lorenzi-Cioldi ◽  
Siri Øyslebø Sørensen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Perceived Threat ◽  
Preferential Treatment ◽  
Public Sector Employees ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Women In Decision Making ◽  
The Impact

Abstract. Two studies carried out among Albanian public-sector employees examined the impact of different types of affirmative action policies (AAPs) on (counter)stereotypical perceptions of women in decision-making positions. Study 1 (N = 178) revealed that participants – especially women – perceived women in decision-making positions as more masculine (i.e., agentic) than feminine (i.e., communal). Study 2 (N = 239) showed that different types of AA had different effects on the attribution of gender stereotypes to AAP beneficiaries: Women benefiting from a quota policy were perceived as being more communal than agentic, while those benefiting from weak preferential treatment were perceived as being more agentic than communal. Furthermore, we examined how the belief that AAPs threaten men’s access to decision-making positions influenced the attribution of these traits to AAP beneficiaries. The results showed that men who reported high levels of perceived threat, as compared to men who reported low levels of perceived threat, attributed more communal than agentic traits to the beneficiaries of quotas. These findings suggest that AAPs may have created a backlash against its beneficiaries by emphasizing gender-stereotypical or counterstereotypical traits. Thus, the framing of AAPs, for instance, as a matter of enhancing organizational performance, in the process of policy making and implementation, may be a crucial tool to countering potential backlash.

Ties that Bind?

1998 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
WILL H. MOORE ◽  
DAVID R. DAVIS
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
General Model ◽  
International Conflict ◽  
Conflict Behavior ◽  
Structural Constraints ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
International Interactions ◽  
The Impact

In this article, the authors develop and empirically evaluate a general model of the linkages between domestic and international conflict behavior. Much of the literature on domestic international interactions has focused on the structural constraints of the international and domestic systems on leaders' foreign policy decisions. Rather than focusing on structural constraints, the present authors model the influence of the behavior of domestic and international rivals on leader decision making. The impact of rivals' behavior on conflict across the domestic-international nexus has been neglected relative to the role of structural factors. This study helps redress that imbalance. The authors test their model with a statistical analysis of Zaire during the period 1975 to 1992 and find substantial support for the model.

scholarly journals The Effect of Work Pressures on Decision-Making: An Empirical Study on Al Rajhi Bank in Jeddah for the Period from 2018-2020

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Malak S. S. Hussein
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Work Stress ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Scientific Hypothesis ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Impact

This study deals with identifying the impact of work pressures on decision-making, at Al-Rajhi Bank in Jeddah - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The main objective of this research is to answer the following research questions: - What is the effect of work stress on the decision-making process? To answer these questions, on which the problem is centered, the following scientific hypothesis has been put forward: - There is a statistically significant relationship between work pressures at the bank and decision-making. The descriptive analytical approach was used to describe the phenomenon under study, and the questionnaire was used to collect various data to distribute the questionnaire to the sample members, who numbered (35) employees, to do the statistical analysis for this study. The most important results that came out of the study, the level of work stress among the sample members is considered acceptable. The study also recommended more attention to the human cadre regarding the issue of work stress and the decision-making process, and more research on the effects of different work pressures, as well as other factors affecting the decision-making process.

scholarly journals Advances in Cone-Based Preference Modeling for Decision Making with Multiple Criteria

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret M. Wiecek
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Maker ◽  
Multiple Criteria ◽  
Solution Set ◽  
Unified Framework ◽  
Nondominated Solutions ◽  
Preference Modeling ◽  
Mathematical Properties ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Impact

Decision making with multiple criteria requires preferences elicited from the decision maker to determine a solution set. Models of preferences, that follow upon the concept of nondominated solutions introduced by Yu (1974), are presented and compared within a unified framework of cones. Polyhedral and nonpolyhedral, convex and nonconvex, translated, and variable cones are used to model different types of preferences. Common mathematical properties of the preferences are discussed. The impact of using these preferences in decision making is emphasized.

scholarly journals Observational Study of the Multisciplinaryteam role (MDT) on Healthcare Management of Cancer Patients: Benefits and Barriers, AbuDhabi 2017

2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-24
Author(s):  
Ibtisam Hussein Al Obaidi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Patient Outcomes ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Clinical Decision Making ◽  
Clinical Decision ◽  
Healthcare Management ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Multidisciplinary Teams ◽  
The Impact

Background: Multidisciplinary team meetings (MDTs) are designed to optimize patient outcomes. It appears intuitive that MDTs are essential to clinical decision - making and patient management; however, it is unclear whether that belief is supported by evidence. With regard to cancer patients, studies demonstrated that  treatment plans made by interacting health care professionals are more effective than those made by individual practitioners. Objectives: To assess the impact of multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) on clinical decision - making and  patient outcomes. Methods: We follow a descriptive questionnaire survey study design and created a (10) sections  surveymonkey that was distributed via email to (150) experts in surgical oncology, general surgery, oncology, radiation oncology, pathologists, and administrative staff. Fourty (40) completed responses were collected to ensure a statistical basis on which to draw sound conclusions. The remaining 110 staff have submitted incomplete answers. Answers were discussed in a separate MDT meeting with most of the  participants.The survey was followed by an interpretation of the respondents’ results and comparison with literatures.  Results: 75% of the participants chose” Agree and strongly agree”, supporting the hypothesis that MDT  meetings ensure an effective and up-to- date management guidelines. This means that the risk of not  discussing a cancer patient cannot be neglected any longer. So the hypothesis statement (H0) is rejected and the alternative statement (Ha) is accepted. Conclusions: The majority of participants saw the value in the MDT process and expressed support for its implementation locally and nationally; however, feedback about the most appropriate format is yet to be established. The clinicians identified the need for agreed standards in MDT performance

Improving Value in Oil Business with Integrated Operations

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 55-72
Author(s):  
Cláudio Benevenuto de Campos Lima ◽  
Gilson Brito Alves Lima ◽  
José Francisco Tebaldi de Castro
Keyword(s):  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Case Analysis ◽  
Oil Industry ◽  
Production Unit ◽  
Multidisciplinary Teams ◽  
Collaborative Environments ◽  
Work Processes ◽  
Service Companies ◽  
Integrated Operations ◽  
Oil Company

Over the last decade, the oil industry has aimed to improve the efficiency of work processes by redesigning them, in order to provide data and information within the required time, with proper systems and engineering tools demanded to get faster and better decisions, taken by multidisciplinary teams, working in collaborative environments, called by Integrated Operations. Such strategy has been adopted by all oil operators and several service companies worldwide. This article studies a specific oil company in Brazil that is implementing this sort of initiative, with deep impacts on the oil production. As a methodological approach, a study of multiple cases of exploratory and descriptive character was performed at a production unit of this oil corporation. The results revealed that it was possible to apply the Integrated Operations method, allowing the study of intangibles, case analysis and the diagnosis of gaps.

scholarly journals Advocacy science and fisheries decision-making

2011 ◽  
Vol 68 (10) ◽  
pp. 2007-2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jake C. Rice
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Ecological Economic ◽  
Privileged Position ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Science Advice ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Right ◽  
Governance Processes ◽  
The Impact

AbstractRice, J. C. 2011. Advocacy science and fisheries decision-making. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 68: 2007–2012. Science advice is supposed to meet idealistic standards for objectivity, impartiality, and lack of bias. Acknowledging that science advisors are imperfect at meeting those standards, they nonetheless need to strive to produce sound, non-partisan advice, because of the privileged accountability given to science advice in decision-making. When science advisors cease to strive for those ideals and promote advocacy science, such advice loses the right to that privileged position. There are temptations to shape science advice by using information that “strengthens” the conservation case selectively. Giving in to such temptation, however, dooms the advice; science advice becomes viewed as expressions of the biases of those who provide it rather than reflecting the information on which the advice is based. Everyone, including the ecosystems, loses. There are ways to increase the impact of science advice on decision-making that do not involve perverting science advice into advocacy: peer review by diverse experts, integrating advice on ecological, economic, and social information and outcomes, and focusing advisory approaches on risks, costs, and trade-offs of different types of management error. These approaches allow the science experts to be active, informed participants in the governance processes to aid sound decision-making, not to press for preselected outcomes. Everyone, including the ecosystems, wins.

scholarly journals A Statistical Analysis of Japanese Inter-Prefectural Migration After Disasters

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 1072-1081
Author(s):  
Makoto Okumura ◽  
Wataru Ito ◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Emigration And Immigration ◽  
External Assistance ◽  
The Impact

This study conducts a statistical analysis of the impact of disasters on inter-prefectural migration in Japan over 41 years (1973–2013), and estimates the change in emigration and immigration after disasters of different magnitudes. The result reveals that emigration decreases and immigration increases after a modest-sized disaster, while the opposite is observed following a huge disaster. It also shows a disaster threshold requiring external assistance for recovery and quick decision-making afterwards.

Policy complexity and legislative duration in the European Union

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steffen Hurka ◽  
Maximilian Haag
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
European Union ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
General Level ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Legislative Procedure ◽  
Ordinary Legislative Procedure ◽  
The Impact

This article investigates the impact of policy complexity on the duration of legislative negotiations in the European Union employing survival analysis. We conceptualize policy complexity as a three-dimensional construct encompassing structural, linguistic and relational components. Building on this conceptual framework, we measure the complexity of 889 Commission proposals published under the ordinary legislative procedure between 2009 and 2018. Controlling for institutional and political drivers of legislative duration identified by previous studies, we show that different types of policy complexity influence the duration of the decision-making process in the European Union to varying degrees, at different points in time and partially in unexpected ways. On a general level, our study highlights that developing a better understanding of the origins and consequences of policy complexity in the European Union is a key task for scholars of European integration.

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