scholarly journals "Heightened Mindfulness" in Government Decision Makers: Antecedents and Consequents During Crisis Management in the Emerging Interactive Information Environment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ravindra Singh Bangari
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
National Level ◽  
Information Environment ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Societal Implications ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
Public Leadership ◽  
The Media ◽  
Nuanced Understanding

Mindfulness in decision makers has important implications for public leadership. A more nuanced understanding of mindfulness emerges from our grounded research into three national-level crises in the emerging interactive information environment, faced by the Indian government, wherein, the media, stakeholders and the interactive information environment combined to bring the visibility factor to fore, influencing significant aspects of individual, group, organisational and societal sensemaking, framing, cognition, and behavioural responses, amidst ongoing interactions. The research led to identification of a micro-level framework, comprising the antecedents and consequents of the occurrence of “heightened mindfulness” in decision makers in the emerging interactive information environment; leading to a better understanding of the process of influence of the ongoing interactions in the emerging information environment on decision making and crisis management. This “heightened mindfulness” in decision makers and its influence on crisis decision making, in turn, are particularly significant because of their wider organisational and societal implications. The research findings and the proposed framework of crisis decision making have important implications for governments and public leadership in their decision making effectiveness during similar crises.<br>

scholarly journals "Heightened Mindfulness" in Government Decision Makers: Antecedents and Consequents During Crisis Management in the Emerging Interactive Information Environment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ravindra Singh Bangari
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
National Level ◽  
Information Environment ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Societal Implications ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
Public Leadership ◽  
The Media ◽  
Nuanced Understanding

Mindfulness in decision makers has important implications for public leadership. A more nuanced understanding of mindfulness emerges from our grounded research into three national-level crises in the emerging interactive information environment, faced by the Indian government, wherein, the media, stakeholders and the interactive information environment combined to bring the visibility factor to fore, influencing significant aspects of individual, group, organisational and societal sensemaking, framing, cognition, and behavioural responses, amidst ongoing interactions. The research led to identification of a micro-level framework, comprising the antecedents and consequents of the occurrence of “heightened mindfulness” in decision makers in the emerging interactive information environment; leading to a better understanding of the process of influence of the ongoing interactions in the emerging information environment on decision making and crisis management. This “heightened mindfulness” in decision makers and its influence on crisis decision making, in turn, are particularly significant because of their wider organisational and societal implications. The research findings and the proposed framework of crisis decision making have important implications for governments and public leadership in their decision making effectiveness during similar crises.<br>

scholarly journals Risky Multi-Attribute Decision-Making Method Based on the Interval Number of Normal Distribution

Symmetry ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 264
Author(s):  
Sha Fu ◽  
Xi-Long Qu ◽  
Ye-Zhi Xiao ◽  
Hang-Jun Zhou ◽  
Guo-Bing Fan
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Normal Distribution ◽  
Interval Number ◽  
Information Environment ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Standard Normal Distribution ◽  
Risky Decision ◽  
Possibility Degree ◽  
Standard Normal ◽  
Multi Attribute Decision Making

Focusing on risky decision-making problems taking the interval number of normal distribution as the information environment, this paper proposes a decision-making method based on the interval number of normal distribution. Firstly, the normalized matrix based on the decision maker’s attitude is obtained through analysis and calculation. Secondly, according to the existing properties of standard normal distribution, the risk preference factors of the decision makers are considered to confirm the possibility degree of each scheme. The possibility degree is then used for establishing a possibility degree matrix and, consequently, sequencing of all schemes is conducted according to existing theories of possibility degree meaning and the value size of possibility degree. Finally, the feasibility and validity of this method is verified through calculation example analysis.

scholarly journals Advancing the WHO-INTEGRATE Framework as a Tool for Evidence-Informed, Deliberative Decision-Making Processes: Exploring the Views of Developers and Users of WHO Guidelines

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan M. Stratil ◽  
Deepak Paudel ◽  
Karen E. Setty ◽  
Carlos E. Menezes de Rezende ◽  
Aline A. Monroe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Real World ◽  
Guideline Development ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Societal Implications ◽  
Who Guidelines ◽  
Health Decision ◽  
Integrate Framework

Background: Decision-making on matters of public health and health policy is a deeply value-laden process. The World Health Organization (WHO)-INTEGRATE framework was proposed as a new evidence-to-decision (EtD) framework to support guideline development from a complexity perspective, notably in relation to public health and health system interventions, and with a foundation in WHO norms and values. This study was conducted as part of the development of the framework to assess its comprehensiveness and usefulness for public health and health policy decision-making. Methods: We conducted a qualitative study comprising nine key informant interviews (KIIs) with experts involved in WHO guideline development and four focus group discussions (FGDs) with a total of forty health decision-makers from Brazil, Germany, Nepal and Uganda. Transcripts were analyzed using MAXQDA12 and qualitative content analysis. Results: Most key informants and participants in the FGDs appreciated the framework for its relevance to real-world decision-making on four widely differing health topics. They praised its broad perspective and comprehensiveness with respect to new or expanded criteria, notably regarding societal implications, equity considerations, and acceptability. Some guideline developers questioned the value of the framework beyond current practice and were concerned with the complexity of applying such a broad range of criteria in guideline development processes. Participants made concrete suggestions for improving the wording and definitions of criteria as well as their grouping, for covering missing aspects, and for addressing overlap between criteria. Conclusion: The framework was well-received by health decision-makers as well as the developers of WHO guidelines and appears to capture all relevant considerations discussed in four distinct real-world decision processes that took place on four different continents. Guidance is needed on how to apply the framework in guideline processes that are both transparent and participatory. A set of suggestions for improvement provides a valuable starting point for advancing the framework towards version 2.0.

scholarly journals Exploring mechanisms for systemic thinking in decision-making through three country applications of SDG Synergies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karina Barquet ◽  
Linn Järnberg ◽  
Ivonne Lobos Alva ◽  
Nina Weitz
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
National Level ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Systemic Thinking ◽  
Incremental Change ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Empirical Material

AbstractIncreased systems thinking capacity—that is, the capacity to consider systemic effects of policies and actions—is necessary for translating knowledge on Sustainable Development Goals’ (SDGs) interactions into practice. Various models and tools that seek to support more evidence-based policy-making have been developed with the purpose of exploring system effects across SDGs. However, these often lack integration of behavioral aspects and contextual factors that influence the decision-making process. We analyze three applications of a decision-support approach called SDG Synergies, which aims at building capacity in systems thinking among decision-makers and implementing agencies. Our objective is to explore how behavior and context influences whether and how knowledge is taken up and acted upon when making decisions. Drawing on empirical material from Mongolia, Colombia, and Sri Lanka, we identify three sets of mechanisms that appear important for enabling more systemic thinking: system boundaries (time, scale, and space), rules of engagement (ownership, representation, and purpose), and biases (confirmation biases and participation biases). Results highlight some key challenges for systemic thinking that merit further attention in future applications, including the importance of localizing SDGs and incorporating this knowledge to national-level assessments, an unwillingness of stakeholders to acknowledge trade-offs, the challenge of addressing transformational as opposed to incremental change, and striking a balance between the flexibility of the approach vis-à-vis scientific robustness.

Crisis Clever System (CCS) – tracking experience of crisis management for decision support

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (02) ◽  
pp. 188-205
Author(s):  
Sophie Loriette ◽  
Nada Matta ◽  
Mohamed Sediri ◽  
Alain Hugerot
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Emergency Department ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Decision Process ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
The Other ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
The Right

AbstractDuring a crisis situation, the ability of emergency department to take reliable and quick decisions is the main feature that defines the success or failure of this organization in the course of its crisis management. Decision makers spend time on identifying the decisions that will be taken for the whole of the crisis management, and on anticipating the preparation of these decisions, ensuring that they have time to properly prepare all decisions to be taken and, be able to implement them as fast as possible. However, the context and the characteristics of the crisis make the decision process complicated because there is no specific methodology to anticipate these decisions and properly manage collaboration with the other protagonists. There is also the pressure of time, a significant stress and, the emotional impact on the decision maker that lead to losing objectivity in decision making. We understand so that the right decision will be greatly facilitated and enhanced by the development of an adequate tool and process for decision-making. This tool must respect methods of the emergency department considered, and highlight the importance of experience feedback referencing to past cases, especially success and failures. We propose in this paper, software in order to handle experience feedback as a support for decision-making in crisis management “Crisis Clever System”. Several dimensions are considered in this study, from one side: organization, communication and problem-solving activities and from the other side the presentation and finding of experience feedback thanks to an analogy technique.

scholarly journals Getting in Line with the Office

2020 ◽  
pp. 117-153
Author(s):  
Laura Affolter
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
University Of California ◽  
The Public ◽  
Reflexive Sociology ◽  
The Media ◽  
Institutional Habitus ◽  
Appropriate Practices

AbstractThis chapter explores how asylum caseworkers are socialised on the job and thereby acquire an institutional habitus. Decision-makers are disciplined, incentivised, compelled, but also “ideationally conditioned” (Gill in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 34 (2): 215–233, 2009) to think, act and feel in certain ways. The chapter argues that how organisational socialisation works can only be understood by taking three factors into account: what belonging to the office and to different “communities of interpretation” (Affolter, Miaz, and Poertner in Asylum Determination in Europe: Ethnographic Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp. 263–284, 2019; Wenger in Knowing in Organizations: A Practice-Based Approach. M.E. Sharp, Armonk, pp. 76–99, 2003) within the office means; how decision-makers acquire, and are taught, the necessary Dienstwissen (Weber in Economy and Society. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2013 [1978]) for carrying out their tasks; and the accountability decision-makers feel towards other actors: peers and superiors, but also politicians, the media and “the public”. Together these aspects of organisational socialisation shape what decision-makers come to perceive as “normal” and “appropriate” practices. Through becoming members of the office, they develop a “socialised subjectivity” (Bourdieu and Wacquant in An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology. Polity Press, Cambridge, pp. 61–215, 1992) which, in turn, shapes their everyday decision-making practices.

scholarly journals USING ANP TO DESIGN A LIVING SYSTEM LIKE BALANCED OPERATING MODEL FOR INTANGIBLE SERVICES

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Minzoni ◽  
Eléonore Mounoud ◽  
Majid Fathi Zahraei
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Living System ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Operating Model ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Political Sciences ◽  
Rural Water ◽  
Supply Planning ◽  
Road Mapping

<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p>There is no need to present another ANP-based approach for weighting criteria within decision making contexts. Academic literature in disciplines like economics, engineering, political sciences, statistics or mathematics testify to the broadness of topics, situations and cultures where the method’s value has been proven. From supply planning or road mapping to monitoring, from crisis management or banking crime to rural water supply, decision makers –both in governments or firms- have implemented this method on the five continents.</p><p> </p><p>However, the method has been used less in areas beyond decision making. For example, in the field of innovation or organisational design, it can be expected that ANP facilitates the formulation of a suitable dynamic to combine the complex links of experts’ representations of the system under study. We advance the hypothesis that the ANP method’s friendliness to rough data, and ability to combine tangible and intangible information can be useful for providing the relevant interactions for living systems like modelling which is at the centre of the cross disciplinary creativity needed to design innovative and balanced operating models. In this context “operating models” shall be understood as the descriptions of how organizations operate across processes, people and technology in order to accomplish their functions.</p></div></div></div>

Flexible Crowd-Driven Decision Making in Times of Crisis

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Mohammed Benali ◽  
Abdessamed Réda Ghomari ◽  
Leila Zemmouchi-Ghomari ◽  
Mohammed Lazar
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Management Process ◽  
Desert Locust ◽  
Collaborative Technologies ◽  
Locust Control ◽  
Effective Use

In times of crisis, making efficient decisions needs an accurate awareness of the event context and strongly depends on the effective use and coordination of resources, people, and information, where information is owned by either response organizations or non-crisis expert public. In this age of advanced collaborative technologies, citizens' participation to the crisis management process has shifted from the passive one-way contribution of social networking data to more active participation by performing specific tasks related to crisis-data processing. This chapter presents a comprehensive approach for integrating the crowdsourcing process to the collaborative decisional process in crisis situations. Application of the proposal with a real-world case study of the desert locust plague provides evidence of the enabling role that the crowdsourcing paradigm plays in supporting decision makers within desert locust control organizations operating throughout vast, remote, and geographically problematic areas.

scholarly journals New Zealand media camouflage political lobbying

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-158
Author(s):  
Catherine Strong ◽  
Fran Tyler
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
The Public ◽  
Government Decision ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
The Media

Political lobbyists are a part of government decision-making processes, and many countries have stringent regulations to ensure their activities are somewhat transparent, especially as some use ethically questionable tactics. In New Zealand, however, there are no similar legislative regulations and lobbyists can stay undetected while trying to influence policymaking.  More concerning, however, is that the results of this study indicates that lobbyists are also able to skirt around scrutiny in New Zealand media because of current journalism practices.  This research’s content analysis indicates the media neglects to identify lobby organisations, thereby allowing them to operate without detection of their agenda, leaving the public unaware of who is influencing decision makers.    

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