Successful Decision-Making A Systematic Approach to Complex Problems /

• Main Authors: Gr<U+00fc>nig, Rudolf. (Author), K<U+00fc>hn, Richard. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Edition: 3rd ed. 2013.
• Subjects: Economics.; Industrial management.; Operations research.; Economics/Management Science.; Management/Business for Professionals.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32307-2

Making decisions is certainly the most important task of a manager and it is often a very difficult one. This book offers a decision making procedure for solving complex problems step by step. Unlike other texts, the book focuses on problem analysis, on developing solution options and on establishin...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Decision Problems and Decision-making Procedures: Decision Problems
• Goal and Problem-finding Systems as Requirements for the Discovery of Decision Problems
• Rational Decision-making
• Decision-making Procedures
• A General Heuristic Decision-making Procedure: Overview of the Decision-making Procedure
• Problem Verification and Analysis
• Developing and Evaluating the Solution Options
• Decision Maxims for Establishing the Overall Consequences of the Options
• Overall Evaluation of the Option and Decision
• A Case Study Illustrating the Application of the Procedure
• Special Problems and Approaches to Solve Them: Decision Sequences
• Information Procurement Decisions
• Collective Decisions
• Final Remarks.