scholarly journals Small-Group Interaction among Professional Librarians

1997 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen R. Tower
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Small Groups ◽  
Group Interaction ◽  
Group Processes ◽  
Decision Performance ◽  
Effective Decision ◽  
Effective Decision Making ◽  
Alternative Solutions

Libraries are using small groups to make decisions, and it is important that the decisions these groups make are effective. Small-group scholars argue that group processes and interactions play an important role and influence effective decision-making. Randy Y. Hirokawa developed a theory called Vigilant Interaction Theory which maintains that group interaction affects decision-making performance by directly shaping the quality of vigilance that leads to a final choice. Small groups consisting of professional librarians were used to test Hirokawa’s theory, and the results showed that group decision performance is directly related to the group’s efforts to perform critical vigilant decision-making functions. Specifically, groups that show a pattern generating more alternative solutions are more likely to develop effective decisions.

scholarly journals Geography Teacher as an Effective Classroom Manager

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 15-25
Author(s):  
Bethel T Ababio
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Classroom Setting ◽  
Functional Roles ◽  
Instructional Goals ◽  
Effective Decision ◽  
Lesson Evaluation ◽  
Effective Decision Making ◽  
Teaching Learning

The Geography Teacher in the classroom setting is confronted on a daily basis with situations which require effective decision-making. By and large, the quality of the decision s/he makes daily determines the attainment of her/his instructional goals. But unfortunately, some teachers are unable to attain their instructional goals due to their poor decision-making skills. This article is an attempt to educate teachers in general and geography teachers in particular on the decision-making skills that they have to demonstrate in the teaching learning process. The article deals with issues such as the functional roles of the Geography Teacher as regards lesson planning, lesson implementation and lesson evaluation. In performing these functions, the Geography Teacher will have to demonstrate her/his decision-making skills with regard to what to teach, when to teach, how to teach and how to evaluate.

scholarly journals Institutional design and utilisation of evaluation results in Uganda’s public universities: Empirical findings from Kyambogo University

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
James Kabuye ◽  
Benon C. Basheka
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Institutional Design ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Evaluation Systems ◽  
Effective Decision ◽  
Effective Decision Making ◽  
The University

Background: The need for evidence-based decision-making scaled up the need for monitoring and evaluation systems in Africa. The education sector has received increasing scrutiny, owing to its centrality in promoting the national agenda of countries. The higher education sub-sector has expanded in its drive to increase accessibility, albeit with numerous challenges and doubts, especially about the quality of education. Numerous evaluations in this sub-sector in Uganda have been carried out, but their results have not been used for effective decision-making. In this regard, the non-utilisation trend of evaluation findings is attributable to the design of the institutions where these evaluations are carried out.Objectives: The study examined the relationship between institutional design (procedural rules, evaluation processes and institutional capacity) and utilisation of evaluation results at Kyambogo University.Methodology: This was a cross-sectional survey involving a sample of 118 respondents whose views were obtained through the use of questionnaires and key informant interviews triangulated with documentary analysis.Results: The study found that procedural rules, evaluation processes and evaluation capacity had a positive (0.459, 0.486 and 0.765, respectively) and a statistically significant (sig. = 0.000) effect on utilisation of evaluation results. This means that the dimensions of institutional design were important predictors of utilisation of evaluation results by a public sector agency.Conclusion: Strengthening of the evaluation competences and capacity of the university by empowering the Directorate of Planning and Development to coordinate and harmonise all evaluations and be charged with the follow-up of utilisation of the results is an emerging recommendation from this study.

scholarly journals Analysis of Principals’ Decision-Making: A Literature Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 2021-2028
Author(s):  
Hardianto Hardianto ◽  
Zulkifli Zulkifli ◽  
Hidayat Hidayat
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Management Information System ◽  
School Principals ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Management Information ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Effective Decision ◽  
Effective Decision Making ◽  
Alternative Solutions

This research was conducted to analyze the decision making by the principal. The analysis is carried out on the stages of decision making, influencing variables and factors, so that decision making is better.  Effective decision making will make the school able to realize its vision and goals. This research uses the literature study method. The main source of research data is articles on school principals' decision-making obtained from Google Scholar. The technique of data collection is done by the method of documentation. The results showed that the principal has carried out the decision-making process by following six decision-making steps: problem identification, gathering information, developing alternative solutions, choosing the best alternative, implementing alternatives, and evaluating decisions. There are five variables that influence decision making by the principal. The five variables are self-efficacy, administration knowledge, management information system, emotional quotient and personality. Decision-making by the principal will be more effective by involving teachers and education staff.

A Componential Analysis of Pilot Decision-Making

1987 ◽  
Vol 31 (7) ◽  
pp. 842-846 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Barnett ◽  
A. Stokes ◽  
C.D. Wickens ◽  
T. Davis ◽  
R. Rosenblum ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Memory Span ◽  
Cognitive Test ◽  
Information Processing Model ◽  
Student Pilots ◽  
Decision Performance ◽  
Valid Predictor ◽  
Decision Choices ◽  
Effective Decision ◽  
Effective Decision Making

In an effort to construct and validate an information-processing model of pilot decision-making, a microcomputer-based system, known as MIDIS, has been developed. A parallel effort resulted in the compilation of a cognitive test battery designed to assess individual differences in those cognitive attributes determined to be important in effective decision making. The processing model of pilot judgment is validated to the extent that pilots with strengths in particular cognitive attributes perform well on those decision scenarios determined to impose demands on those same abilities. Forty professional, instructor, and student pilots served as subjects in this validation study. The results reported here represent data from twenty of the highly-experienced instrument-rated pilots. The results indicated that the cognitive test of running memory span provided a valid predictor of the optimality of pilot's judgments. A test of risk assessment predicted pilot confidence and latency in the decision choices. Few of the other tests, including a test of declarative knowledge, provided significant correlations with the three attributes of decision performance for the pilots in the group studied to date.

scholarly journals Executive Branch Self-Policing in Times of Crisis: The Challenges for Conscientious Legal Analysis

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter M. Shane
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Executive Branch ◽  
Public Confidence ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
Effective Decision ◽  
Public Scrutiny ◽  
Effective Decision Making ◽  
Presidential Advisers

The essay considers the limits to executive branch capacity to provide reliable legal analysis in times of emergency, including covert military operations. It highlights the special risks government faces when the circle of presidential advisers narrows because of highly classified operations and there is less opportunity for senior advisors, including attorneys, to review pending initiatives. Executive unilateralism legitimates secrecy, and secrecy promotes effective decision making only in exceptional circumstances: subjecting an administration’s performance to public scrutiny will improve both the quality of the performance and public confidence in the executive branch.

Parliamentarism and the Legislative Branch

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
András Sajó ◽  
Renáta Uitz
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Legislative Branch ◽  
Effective Decision ◽  
The Law ◽  
Internal Operations ◽  
Effective Decision Making ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Law Making

This chapter examines the relationship between parliamentarism and the legislative branch. It explores the evolution of the legislative branch, leading to disillusionment with the rationalized law-making factory, a venture run by political parties beyond the reach of constitutional rules. The rise of democratically bred party rule is positioned between the forces favouring free debate versus effective decision-making in the legislature. The chapter analyses the institutional make-up and internal operations of the legislature, the role of the opposition in the legislative assembly, and explores the benefits of bicameralism for boosting the powers of the legislative branch. Finally, it looks at the law-making process and its outsourcing via delegating legislative powers to the executive.

Computing an effective decision making group of a society using social network analysis

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 577-587 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donghyun Kim ◽  
Deying Li ◽  
Omid Asgari ◽  
Yingshu Li ◽  
Alade O. Tokuta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Effective Decision ◽  
Effective Decision Making
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