scholarly journals "Is That Your Final Decision? Multi-Stage Profiling, Selective Effects, and Article 22 of the GDPR"

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reuben Binns ◽  
Michael Veale
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Real World ◽  
Final Decision ◽  
World Systems ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
The Status ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Selective Effects ◽  
Multiple Stages

•Provisions in many data protection laws require a legal basis, or at the very least safeguards, for significant, solely automated decisions; Article 22 of the GDPR is the most notable. •Little attention has been paid to Article 22 in light of decision-making processes with multiple stages, potentially both manual and automated, and which together might impact upon decision subjects in different ways. •Using stylised examples grounded in real-world systems, we raise five distinct complications relating to interpreting Article 22 in the context of such multi-stage profiling systems. •These are: the potential for selective automation on subsets of data subjects despite generally adequate human input; the ambiguity around where to locate the decision itself; whether ‘significance’ should be interpreted in terms of any potential effects or only selectively in terms of realised effects; the potential for upstream automation processes to foreclose downstream outcomes despite human input; and that a focus on the final step may distract from the status and importance of upstream processes. •We argue that the nature of these challenges will make it difficult for courts or regulators to distil a set of clear, fair and consistent interpretations for many realistic contexts.

scholarly journals Perceptions of midwives on shortage and retention of staff at a public hospital in Tshwane District

Curationis ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mosehle S. Matlala ◽  
Thanyani G. Lumadi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Quality Care ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
The Status ◽  
Generic Qualitative ◽  
Tertiary Hospitals ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
The Impact

Background: Midwifery is the backbone of women and child healthcare. The shortage of staff in maternity units is a crisis faced by many countries worldwide, including South Africa.Objectives: This study aims to explore the perceptions of midwives on the shortage and retention of staff at a public institution.Method: The study was conducted at one of the tertiary hospitals in Tshwane District, Gauteng Province. A total of 11 midwives were interviewed through face-to-face and focus group interviews. An explorative, descriptive generic qualitative design method was followed, and a non-probability, purposive sampling technique was used. Thematic coding analysis was followed for analysing data.Results: The impact of shortage of midwives was reported to be directly related to poor provision of quality care as a result of increased workload, leading to low morale and burnout. The compromised autonomy of midwives in the high obstetrics dependency units devalues the status of midwives.Conclusion: Midwives are passionate about their job, despite the hurdles related to their day-to-day work environment. They are demoralised by chronic shortage of staff and feel overworked. Staff involvement in decision-making processes is a motivational factor for midwives to stay in the profession. The midwives need to be in the centre of the decision-making processes related to their profession. The revision of the scope of practice and classification of midwifery profession away from general nursing complex by the South African Nursing Council (SANC) could place midwifery in its rightful status.

scholarly journals Odin Teatret’s The Tree: performing in the interstices

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Campbell ◽  
Jane Turner
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Complex Space ◽  
The Status ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Recent Addition ◽  
A Performance

Abstract: This article aims to critically engage with Odin Teatret’s most recent addition to the repertoire, The Tree (2016), in order to investigate the ways in which Barba’s dramaturgical decision-making processes create a performance field that metaphorically comments on the status of the group today whilst critiquing contemporary geo-politics. Importantly, we argue that notions of interculturalism - which have often been employed by scholars to critique the Odin’s work - do not address the full complexity of the embodied concatenation of the group’s practice, and we employ the term interstitial to more effectively articulate the complex space produced by the group’s training and performances.

scholarly journals National Inequality and Individual Readiness to Cooperate

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Skewes
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Public Goods ◽  
Real World ◽  
Behavioral Model ◽  
Economic Cooperation ◽  
Laboratory Research ◽  
Economic Games ◽  
Public Goods Games ◽  
Decision Making Processes

People in societies with higher inequality spend less time volunteering, and participate less in social organizations. Nations with higher inequality spend less money on social welfare, and have more conflict. Laboratory research has shown that when inequality is simulated in cooperative economic games, people who are given more resources contribute less than is optimal, and people who are given fewer resources contribute more. This study links these findings to real world inequality, and applies a model to explain these effects in terms of decision-making processes. Using a dataset of 255 groups playing public goods games in thirteen economically diverse societies, I show that in nations with higher inequality, economic cooperation decays more quickly. Using a behavioral model, I show that this occurs because people living in less equal nations have a lower readiness to match one another’s contributions. I discuss the importance of these results for understanding trust and conflict.

Does scheduling matter? When unscheduled decision making results in more effective meetings

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boris Eisenbart ◽  
Massimo Garbuio ◽  
Daniele Mascia ◽  
Federica Morandi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Real World ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Distributed Information ◽  
Critical Design ◽  
Meeting Scheduling ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Potential Impact

Purpose – Managers spend a great deal of time in meetings making decisions critical to organisational success, yet the design aspects of meetings remain largely understudied. The purpose of this paper is to elaborate on the potential impact of one critical design aspect of meetings – namely, whether a decision to be taken (or the meeting in general) was scheduled or not – on the use of distributed information, information elaboration, conflict, speed of decision making, and, ultimately, decision-making effectiveness. Design/methodology/approach – The research presented in this paper combines a literature review with empirical data obtained from questionnaires and direct observation of decision making meetings on organisational issues in a hospital. One meeting was scheduled, the other two were unscheduled. A second questionnaire was administered 12 months after the respective decision making meetings to explore and evaluate the efficiency of the decisions made and their implementation. Findings – This paper suggests that a scheduled meeting with a shared agenda of all decisions to be taken may induce decision makers to form opinions upfront at the meeting, with these opinions eventually serving as sources of conflict during group discussion. Because of the nature of the conflict generated, these meetings are more likely to run long and to not deliver the expected outcomes. Originality/value – The study contributes to the debate on group decision-making processes by examining the effect of meeting scheduling on information elaboration and conflict in real-world decision-making settings. Although robust evidence has supported the existence of relationships between information elaboration, conflict, and decision-making effectiveness, previous studies have mainly focused on the effects of these processes during scheduled meetings and experimental settings. The findings of the present study show the effect of meeting scheduling on decision-making effectiveness in real-world settings.

Digital technology utilisation decisions for facilitating the implementation of Industry 4.0 technologies

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Samad M.E. Sepasgozar
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Technology Adoption ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Final Decision ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Adoption Decision ◽  
Construction Companies ◽  
Multi Stage

Purpose Emerging Construction Industry 4.0 technologies raise serious questions for construction companies when deciding whether to adopt or reject emerging technologies. Vendors seek to understand what factors are involved in how construction companies make these decisions and how they might vary across different companies. This paper aims to present a systematic, technology adoption decision-making framework for the construction industry which includes the key steps required for the final decision being made by companies up to the commencement of the operation of the technology. Design/methodology/approach A total of 123 experienced practitioners were interviewed to identify a broad range of tasks relevant to decision-making. Participants known as customers or vendors were chosen to validate the findings of each group by using data triangulation methods. A systematic thematic analysis method was applied in the NVivo environment to analyse the data. Findings This study identifies the active role of vendors who need to understand how their customers arrive at decisions to increase the rate of technology adoption. This paper also provides insights to new companies and late adopters (reported greater than 50%) about how others arrived at their decisions. Originality/value Unlike other technology adoption models, this paper investigates vendors’ corresponding interactions during the decision-making process. This paper also goes beyond previous studies, which focussed on the individual customer’s intention to use a specific technology at a single-stage by developing a multi-stage framework to enable understanding the details of the decision process at the organisational level.

scholarly journals Applying real-world data to support regulatory decision — making in the United States

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-69
Author(s):  
M. A. Borzova ◽  
А. S. Kolbin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Real World ◽  
The United States ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
Real World Data ◽  
World Data ◽  
Regulatory Decision ◽  
Eurasian Economic Union ◽  
Economic Union

The article describes the legal basis for the application of real-world data to support regulatory decision-making in the United States, as well as the possibility of implementing the relevant approaches in the legislation of the Eurasian Economic Union.

The Sociology of Refugee Migration

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 387-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Scott FitzGerald ◽  
Rawan Arar
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
World Systems ◽  
Household Economy ◽  
World Systems Theory ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Mutual Engagement ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Global North ◽  
Path Dependent

Theorization in the sociology of migration and the field of refugee studies has been retarded by a path-dependent division that we argue should be broken down by greater mutual engagement. Excavating the construction of the refugee category reveals how unwarranted assumptions shape contemporary disputes about the scale of refugee crises, appropriate policy responses, and suitable research tools. Empirical studies of how violence interacts with economic and other factors shaping mobility offer lessons for both fields. Adapting existing theories that may not appear immediately applicable, such as household economy approaches, helps explain refugees’ decision-making processes. At a macro level, world systems theory sheds light on the interactive policies around refugees across states of origin, mass hosting, asylum, transit, and resettlement. Finally, focusing on the integration of refugees in the Global South reveals a pattern that poses major challenges to theories of assimilation and citizenship developed in settler states of the Global North.

An Application of Constructal Theory in the Multi-Objective Design of Product Platforms

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Carone ◽  
Christopher B. Williams ◽  
Janet K. Allen ◽  
Farrokh Mistree
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Real World ◽  
Utility Theory ◽  
Pressure Vessels ◽  
Constructal Theory ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Product Platform ◽  
Product Platforms ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Geometric Space

Designers develop product platforms when they wish to offer variety to the customer and simultaneously keep costs down to a reasonable level. It has been shown that it is feasible and useful to design hierarchic product platforms for customizable products as a problem of optimization of access in a geometric space, allowing the designer to thoroughly explore a product family’s market space. However, the presence of risk, uncertainty, and tradeoffs, which are inevitable aspects of a real-world design problem, are not considered in this method. We have addressed these limitations through the infusion of utility theory into the multi-stage decision-making process. The proposed approach is illustrated with an example: the design of a product platform for a line of customizable pressure vessels.

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