Decision-making in the Tribunal for Consumer Claims: A Critical Review

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Su’aida Safei ◽  
Nuraisyah Chua Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Critical Review

scholarly journals Library Councils and Governance in Canadian University Libraries: A Critical Review

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 60-79
Author(s):  
Eva Revitt ◽  
Sean Luyk
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Educational Administration ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Anecdotal Evidence ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Administrative Positions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Collegial Governance

Despite the nearly 40-year history of library councils in Canadian academic libraries, scholarly literature regarding library governance and decision-making processes within the context of Canadian university libraries is almost non-existent. Nevertheless, there is evidence of a general disenfranchisement of librarians from significant decisions affecting library operations, resources, services, and the appointment and evaluation of senior administrative positions. Furthermore, it is evident that library councils in Canadian academic libraries, where they do exist, function primarily as information-sharing forums rather than as the collegial decision-making bodies they were originally intended to be. Through a close examination of the CAUT Bulletin, this paper traces the development of library councils in Canadian academic libraries. Within the framework of institutional theory and drawing from librarianship, management, and educational administration literature, the paper proceeds to critically discuss systematic barriers to collegial governance in academic libraries. Historical and anecdotal evidence suggests that administrative resistance is a continued and key obstacle to the democratization of decision-making processes in Canadian academic libraries.

A Critical Review of Learning Organizations in the 21st Century

2012 ◽  
pp. 188-198
Author(s):  
Victor X. Wang
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Learning Organization ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Learning Organizations ◽  
Organizational Leaders ◽  
Management Philosophy ◽  
High Participation

This article critically reviews what constitutes a learning organization. The author argues that a learning organization is born out of a static organization. In determining whether organizations are learning organizations, components such as structure, atmosphere, management philosophy and attitudes, decision-making and policy-making, and communication must be considered. In addition, these components are discussed in comparison to the characteristics of static organizations. The theme of this article is such that in order for organizations to remain competitive in this global economy, organizational leaders must be flexible and people-centered. Successful organizational leaders should engage in the use of supportive power, involve high participation at all levels, and conduct multidirectional communication in order to turn static organizations into learning organizations.

scholarly journals A Review of Protocols in Higher Education; How My Experience Made Me Question the Process

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brendan M. Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Due Process ◽  
Public University ◽  
Recent Experience ◽  
Grading Practices ◽  
Classroom Setting ◽  
Academic Review ◽  
The Way

This paper is a discussion and critical review of grading practices at a large flagship public university. In this paper, I examine the rights a student has when calling into question the authority and decision-making abilities of teachers in a classroom setting. Following my recent experience with a professor (noted at the beginning of this paper), I began to question the legitimacy of interactions between students and teachers. The paper examines the way in which the system of Higher Education lacks due process for students who wish to appeal to their teachers about their grades. Ultimately my goal is to help facilitate conversations about academic review, including how professors can use syllabi and grading matrixs to protect themselves and their students, and well as ensure that conflicts can be avoided.

scholarly journals Vapor Intrusion Investigations and Decision-Making: A Critical Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (12) ◽  
pp. 7050-7069 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Ma ◽  
Thomas McHugh ◽  
Lila Beckley ◽  
Matthew Lahvis ◽  
George DeVaull ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Vapor Intrusion

scholarly journals What Is Urban after All? A Critical Review of Measuring and Mapping Urban Typologies in Portugal

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 630
Author(s):  
Cristina Henriques ◽  
Alexandre Domingues ◽  
Margarida Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Urban Area ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Allocation Of Resources ◽  
Territorial Cohesion ◽  
Methodological Approaches

The concept of urban area is complex and has been discussed for many years by several authors and organisations through different perspectives and methodological approaches. For administrative and comparison purposes statistical institutions, both at the national and international levels, classify territories according to a certain degree of urbanisation defining typologies from which indicators and certain public policies are applied. The purpose of this study is to discuss the relevance and suitability of different urban typologies. Through mapping and measuring the data of official documents, the urban dimension of Mainland Portuguese territory is discussed and its usefulness concerning the allocation of resources for promoting territorial cohesion is stressed. Results show the inadequacy of these classifications to inform planning actions, decision making, and to promote territorial policies. It also provides evidence of inaccuracies that distort the reading of the territorial reality of the case study.

scholarly journals Cancer Treatment-Related Infertility: A Critical Review of the Evidence

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip D Poorvu ◽  
A Lindsay Frazier ◽  
Angela M Feraco ◽  
Peter E Manley ◽  
Elizabeth S Ginsburg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Fertility Preservation ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Optimal Decision ◽  
Cancer Treatments ◽  
Future Fertility ◽  
Adult Cancer Survivors ◽  
Optimal Decision Making

AbstractCancer treatments may compromise the fertility of children, adolescents, and young adults, and treatment-related infertility represents an important survivorship issue that should be addressed at diagnosis and in follow-up to ensure optimal decision-making, including consideration of pursuing fertility preservation. Risk of infertility varies substantially with patient and treatment factors. The ability to accurately assess fertility risk for many patients is hampered by limitations of the current literature, including heterogeneity in patient populations, treatments, and outcome measures. In this article, we review and synthesize the available data to estimate fertility risks from modern cancer treatments for both children and adult cancer survivors to enable clinicians to counsel patients about future fertility.

scholarly journals (A260) Triage Decision-Making in Intoxication

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S1) ◽  
pp. s71-s72
Author(s):  
A. Mirhaghi ◽  
G.R. Mohammadi ◽  
M. Asghari
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Gold Standard ◽  
Severity Index ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Emergency Severity Index ◽  
Manchester Triage System ◽  
Respiratory Status ◽  
Triage Protocol ◽  
Conscious Level

Background and AimsDecision-making is the major component in triaging EDs patients. EDs Triage systems have applied different approaches to triaging intoxicated patients. Pros & Cons for these approaches need to be identified. Aim is to analysis management of intoxicated patients during various triage process.MethodsCritical review includes five triage systems, Emergency Severity Index, Australasian Triage Scale, Canadian triage and Acuity Scale, Manchester Triage System and 5-tier Triage protocol. These systems have been analyzed via meta-synthesis in terms of evidence-based criteria, inclusiveness, specific application and practicability.ResultsGeneral physiologic signs & symptoms were the gold standard for determining acuity in patients that have been applied by all triage systems. Conscious level, air way, respiratory status and circulation assessment were identified as major criteria in decision-making. 5-tier Triage protocol showed the most comprehensiveness characteristics to prioritizing intoxicated patients.DiscussionResources necessary for evidence-based performance to support nursing decisions in triaging intoxicated patients needs fundamentally to be developed. It`s necessary to develop National Triage Scale to approach intoxicated patients effectively.

scholarly journals Unconscious influences on decision making: A critical review

2014 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben R. Newell ◽  
David R. Shanks
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Behavior ◽  
Behavioral Economics ◽  
Cognitive Neuroscience ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Cognitive Unconscious

AbstractTo what extent do we know our own minds when making decisions? Variants of this question have preoccupied researchers in a wide range of domains, from mainstream experimental psychology (cognition, perception, social behavior) to cognitive neuroscience and behavioral economics. A pervasive view places a heavy explanatory burden on an intelligent cognitive unconscious, with many theories assigning causally effective roles to unconscious influences. This article presents a novel framework for evaluating these claims and reviews evidence from three major bodies of research in which unconscious factors have been studied: multiple-cue judgment, deliberation without attention, and decisions under uncertainty. Studies of priming (subliminal and primes-to-behavior) and the role of awareness in movement and perception (e.g., timing of willed actions, blindsight) are also given brief consideration. The review highlights that inadequate procedures for assessing awareness, failures to consider artifactual explanations of “landmark” results, and a tendency to uncritically accept conclusions that fit with our intuitions have all contributed to unconscious influences being ascribed inflated and erroneous explanatory power in theories of decision making. The review concludes by recommending that future research should focus on tasks in which participants' attention is diverted away from the experimenter's hypothesis, rather than the highly reflective tasks that are currently often employed.

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