scholarly journals S. David Mash. Decision-Making in the Absence of Certainty: A Study in the Context of Technology and the Construction of the 21st Century Academic Library. Chicago: ACRL (ACRL Publications in Librarianship, no. 63), 2010. 160p. alk. paper, $38 (ISBN 9780838985717). LC2010-049544.

2011 ◽  
Vol 72 (5) ◽  
pp. 505-506
Author(s):  
Anders Selhorst
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Academic Library

The library succession planner’s decision-making style

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (8/9) ◽  
pp. 497-510
Author(s):  
Gihani S. Rajapakse ◽  
K. Kiran
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Succession Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Decision Style ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Decision Making Styles

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore succession planning in academic libraries, specifically to understand how succession planning is carried out and how the decisions-making styles of library managers influence each stage of the succession planning. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative approach was used to gather data through a document analysis and interviews with library managers at four Sri Lankan university libraries. Data analysis was done applying the framework analysis (FA) tool. Findings The study revealed that succession planning has been practiced in Sri Lankan university libraries to develop a bench strength, skilled backup for key positions at all levels, while inculcating leadership competencies in their respective positions. The dominant decision style is the identifiable decision-making style within the succession planning process. Research limitations/implications The volume of the data obtained depends largely on the participants’ responses, and the interpretation of the data is subjected to minimum personal biasness of the researcher. Practical implications An understanding of how decision-making styles influence practices of succession planning contributes to assist library managers to carry out succession planning within the limitations of their autonomy to do so. The findings of this study benefit library managers in recognizing their own decision-making styles and the level of succession planning they have achieved. Social implications Library managers’ decision-making style can have an influence on how succession planning is carried out successfully at an academic library to ensure continuity of the library’s mission and vision. Originality/value This is the first known study to investigate how decision-making style of the manager influences each level of the succession planning at an academic library. The use of a systematic FA method for the qualitative data analysis reveals trustworthy results.

Ubiquitous Eco Cities

2011 ◽  
pp. 88-107
Author(s):  
Tan Yigitcanlar ◽  
Jung Hoon Han
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Wireless Networks ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Integrated Management ◽  
Location Based Services ◽  
Urban Management ◽  
Telecommunication Infrastructure ◽  
Decision Making System ◽  
Technology Convergence

Efficient and effective urban management systems for Ubiquitous Eco Cities require having intelligent and integrated management mechanisms. This integration includes bringing together economic, socio-cultural and urban development with a well orchestrated, transparent and open decision-making system and necessary infrastructure and technologies. In Ubiquitous Eco Cities telecommunication technologies play an important role in monitoring and managing activities via wired and wireless networks. Particularly, technology convergence creates new ways in which information and telecommunication technologies are used and formed the backbone of urban management. The 21st Century is an era where information has converged, in which people are able to access a variety of services, including internet and location based services, through multi-functional devices and provides new opportunities in the management of Ubiquitous Eco Cities. This chapter discusses developments in telecommunication infrastructure and trends in convergence technologies and their implications on the management of Ubiquitous Eco Cities.

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.

Ubiquitous Eco Cities

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tan Yigitcanlar ◽  
Jung Hoon Han
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Integrated Management ◽  
Location Based Services ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Urban Management ◽  
Telecommunication Infrastructure ◽  
Decision Making System ◽  
Technology Convergence

Efficient and effective urban management systems for Ubiquitous Eco Cities require having intelligent and integrated management mechanisms. This integration includes bringing together economic, socio-cultural and urban development with a well-orchestrated, transparent and open decision-making system and necessary infrastructure and technologies. In Ubiquitous Eco Cities, telecommunication technologies play an important role in monitoring and managing activities via wired and wireless networks. Particularly, technology convergence creates new ways in which information and telecommunication technologies are used and formed the backbone of urban management. The 21st century is an era where information has converged, in which people are able to access a variety of services, including internet- and location- based services, through multi-functional devices and provides new opportunities in the management of Ubiquitous Eco Cities. This paper discusses developments in telecommunication infrastructure and trends in convergence technologies and their implications on the management of Ubiquitous Eco Cities.

scholarly journals ‘Between a Rock and a Hard Place’: The Implications of Lost Autonomy and Trust for Professionals at Sea

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 648-665 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Sampson ◽  
Nelson Turgo ◽  
Iris Acejo ◽  
Neil Ellis ◽  
Lijun Tang
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Shipping Industry ◽  
Hard Place

This article describes changes associated with increased bureaucratisation and surveillance in the regulation and management of the 21st century shipping industry. Drawing upon 303 ‘real-life’ vignette-based interviews, it describes how these transformations are experienced by contemporary navigating officers, and engineers, working on commercial cargo vessels. The article draws attention to the dysfunctional effects of distrust in organisations, describing how lost trust and associated fears impact on the decision-making process of officers thereby inducing a degree of organisational paralysis. This finding may be of particular significance to employers who have introduced punishment-centred bureaucratisation in order to improve organisational efficiency and who are concurrently undermining it.

The approaches used to make change decisions and the influencing determinants

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (4/5) ◽  
pp. 269-277
Author(s):  
Zhixian Yi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Library Directors ◽  
Library Size ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Managing Change ◽  
Information Professionals ◽  
Dual Approaches ◽  
Practical Implications

PurposeThis study aimed for the examination of the change decision-making approaches utilised by academic library directors and the identification and explanation of the determinants of the utilised approaches.Design/methodology/approachThe data were collected from a survey. The content analysis was utilised to analyse the qualitative data. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyse the quantitative data.FindingsThe findings resulted in the identification of the approaches used to make change decisions and three categories of determinants. Directors actually utilised multiple and dual approaches more than single approaches to make change decisions. The determinants of number of library branches, number of subordinates, total years of directorship and years of present position played a significant role in the utilised approaches to making change decisions. However, the findings demonstrate that the determinants of age, gender, library size, library type, number of different positions, total years of library service and education level were not significant determinants of the utilised approaches to making change decisions.Research limitations/implicationsThe limitation is that the results of this study are not applicable and generalisable to academic libraries beyond this classification using in this study.Practical implicationsThe change decision-making approaches and the identified determinants will be useful and valuable for leaders and managers to make better decisions while managing change in the digital age.Originality/valueThe identification of the approaches and determinants provides information professionals with new knowledge and enables them to reflect the determinants of the utilised approaches and to make better change decisions in a given situation.

The brooding omnipresence of Carl Schmitt in contemporary jurisprudence: Reflections on William Scheuerman’s The End of Law: Carl Schmitt in the 21st century

2020 ◽  
pp. 019145372097473
Author(s):  
Sanford Levinson
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Objective Measure ◽  
Carl Schmitt ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Administrative State

Carl Schmitt, whatever his clear deficiencies as a human being and excesses in his overall thought, is, by any objective measure, one of the leading jurisprudential figures of the 20th century. And the questions he raised – about the inevitably of discretionary decision-making in the age of the modern administrative state; the breakdown of liberal parliamentarism; or the importance of that ‘emergencies’ must play in any cogent jurisprudential theory, to name only three – continue to resonate very much into the 21st century. William Scheuerman is at best ambivalent, if not hostile, to many aspects of Schmitt and Schmittian theory, but he presents Schmitt’s ideas with remarkable clarity that enables the reader to understand why it continues to be important to read and to wrestle with him.

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