scholarly journals Influence of Decision Making During Disasters and How It Impacts a Community

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jayanrtha Withanaarachchi ◽  
Sujeeva Setunge
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
It Impacts

How the Brain Makes Decisions

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Boraud
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
General Framework ◽  
Fundamental Question ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Brain Functions ◽  
It Impacts ◽  
Combining Data ◽  
Neural Substrate ◽  
Human Decision ◽  
The Brain

The human decision-making process is tainted with irrationality. To address this issue, this book proposes a ‘bottom-up’ approach of the neural substrate of decision-making, starting from the fundamental question: What are the basic properties that a neural network of decision-making needs to possess? Combining data drawn from phylogeny and physiology, this book provides a general framework of the neurobiology of decision-making in vertebrates and explains how it evolved from the lamprey to the apes. It also addresses the consequences, examining how it impacts our capacity of reasoning and some aspects of the pathophysiology of high brain functions. To conclude, the text opens discussion to more philosophical concepts such as the question of free will.

scholarly journals The enemy has passed through the gate

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denis Fischbacher-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Senior Managers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Organisational Effectiveness ◽  
It Impacts ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight the potential role that the so-called “toxic triangle” (Padilla et al., 2007) can play in undermining the processes around effectiveness. It is the interaction between leaders, organisational members, and the environmental context in which those interactions occur that has the potential to generate dysfunctional behaviours and processes. The paper seeks to set out a set of issues that would seem to be worthy of further consideration within the Journal and which deal with the relationships between organisational effectiveness and the threats from insiders. Design/methodology/approach – The paper adopts a systems approach to the threats from insiders and the manner in which it impacts on organisation effectiveness. The ultimate goal of the paper is to stimulate further debate and discussion around the issues. Findings – The paper adds to the discussions around effectiveness by highlighting how senior managers can create the conditions in which failure can occur through the erosion of controls, poor decision making, and the creation of a culture that has the potential to generate failure. Within this setting, insiders can serve to trigger a series of failures by their actions and for which the controls in place are either ineffective or have been by-passed as a result of insider knowledge. Research limitations/implications – The issues raised in this paper need to be tested empirically as a means of providing a clear evidence base in support of their relationships with the generation of organisational ineffectiveness. Practical implications – The paper aims to raise awareness and stimulate thinking by practising managers around the role that the “toxic triangle” of issues can play in creating the conditions by which organisations can incubate the potential for crisis. Originality/value – The paper seeks to bring together a disparate body of published work within the context of “organisational effectiveness” and sets out a series of dark characteristics that organisations need to consider if they are to avoid failure. The paper argues the case that effectiveness can be a fragile construct and that the mechanisms that generate failure also need to be actively considered when discussing what effectiveness means in practice.

Economic Decision-Making and the Impact of Risk Management

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Brian J. Galli ◽  
Gabrielle Battiloro
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Critical Element ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Economic Decision ◽  
It Impacts ◽  
Economic Decision Making ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this article is to adequately identify and assess economic risk in decision-making within project environments. A systematic literature review approach is used to recognize the key relationships between risk and economic decision-making. The study shows that the most critical element associated with economic decision-making is the risk. The article highlights the implications of this relationship and how it impacts a project-based environment. Review of the literature has shown limited research in this area. This study seeks to fill a gap within the existing research. The results of this research study contribute to economic decision-making and risk management.

scholarly journals CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR VALUING IT WITHIN A BUSINESS SYSTEM

2021 ◽  
pp. 13-23
Author(s):  
Dr.G.Naresh Reddy ◽  
Asiya Jabeen
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Real World ◽  
Design Science ◽  
It Value ◽  
Business System ◽  
It Impacts

Due to the complexity of IT impacts and multiple interpretations of value, determining the IT value can be difficult. This paper introduces a conceptual framework for evaluating IT value within a single firm despite its complexity. Our research combines design science with an examination of five real-world scenarios. Using the conceptual framework, we may look at value from three different perspectives: 1) from the standpoint of diverse stakeholders, 2) from the perspective of valuing logics, and 3) from the perspective of assessment views. It’s important to consider all of these viewpoints because they help to build the foundation for understanding how specific value information might fulfill the demands of IT-related decision making and how to evaluate and communicate it. KEYWORDS: IT, conceptual framework, multifaceted, company

Personal Troubles and Public Issues

2020 ◽  
pp. 105-138
Author(s):  
Sarah Sobieraj
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
Public Issues ◽  
It Impacts ◽  
Credible Threat ◽  
Identity Based

This chapter shows that digital abuse and harassment have cost some women their jobs, jeopardized their mental health, placed them at risk of physical violence, and damaged their reputations. When effective, these attacks undermine women’s contributions to public discourse, create a climate of self-censorship, and even press women out of digital publics altogether. And, based on the uneven distribution of abuse, those whose voices are most underrepresented (e.g., women of color) are likely to be the first pushed out. As a result, digital hostility has ramifications that extend far beyond the lives of those who are targeted. It impacts us all by eroding civil liberties, diminishing our public discourse, thinning the knowledge that informs policy and electoral decision making, and teaching all women that activism and public service are unappealing, high-risk endeavors to be avoided. In so doing, identity-based attacks online pose a credible threat to democratic health.

Discarding optimality: Throwing out the baby with the bathwater?

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Simen ◽  
Fuat Balcı
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Perceptual Decision Making ◽  
Reward Rate ◽  
Perceptual Decision ◽  
Standard Observer ◽  
Rate Maximization ◽  
Reward Rate Maximization ◽  
Descriptive Standard ◽  
Observer Model

AbstractRahnev & Denison (R&D) argue against normative theories and in favor of a more descriptive “standard observer model” of perceptual decision making. We agree with the authors in many respects, but we argue that optimality (specifically, reward-rate maximization) has proved demonstrably useful as a hypothesis, contrary to the authors’ claims.

LPCD framework: Analytical tool or psychological model?

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Danks
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Mathematical Framework ◽  
Bayesian Decision ◽  
Perceptual Decision Making ◽  
Psychological Model ◽  
Psychological Reality ◽  
Psychological Theories ◽  
Target Article ◽  
Bayesian Decision Making

AbstractThe target article uses a mathematical framework derived from Bayesian decision making to demonstrate suboptimal decision making but then attributes psychological reality to the framework components. Rahnev & Denison's (R&D) positive proposal thus risks ignoring plausible psychological theories that could implement complex perceptual decision making. We must be careful not to slide from success with an analytical tool to the reality of the tool components.

Elaborating the role of reflection and individual differences in the study of folk-economic beliefs

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Arceneaux
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Evolutionary History ◽  
Behavioral Responses ◽  
History Of ◽  
Economic Beliefs

AbstractIntuitions guide decision-making, and looking to the evolutionary history of humans illuminates why some behavioral responses are more intuitive than others. Yet a place remains for cognitive processes to second-guess intuitive responses – that is, to be reflective – and individual differences abound in automatic, intuitive processing as well.

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