Download or read book Making Better Business Decisions written by Steve W. Williams and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2002 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work breaks down critical thinking skills and creative problem solving techniques that can assist and help as decisions become more important and problems become more difficult in today's society and business environment.

Download or read book Savvy Decision Making written by Madhavi Jayanthi and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a guide is for school practitioners who want to know more about planning and conducting focus groups as an aid to decision-making. It emphasizes practical and cost-effective ways to ensure accurate results. After defining the focus group, chapter 1 offers ways focus groups can be used in schools and reasons for using them. Chapter 2 discusses guidelines for selecting a moderator. Chapter 3 explains how to clarify the purpose of the focus group. Chapter 4 explains how to determine which participants to include in the focus groups. Chapter 5 examines strategies for scheduling the number, location, and duration of the focus groups. Chapter 6 considers choices about recording the discussion, remunerating participants, asking for participant releases, and having an advance organizer. Chapter 7 covers all aspects of recruiting participants. Chapter 8 examines the protocol for conducting the focus groups. Chapter 9 contains guidelines for moderating the group. Chapter 10 discusses the analysis of information gained and the writing of reports. Each chapter offers examples from past focus groups and reproducible checklists of activities that must be completed, as well as samples of forms, letters, and lists. Many topics are accompanied by a summary of differing opinions from the literature. (Contains 35 references.) (RKJ)

Download or read book Making Sage Decisions written by Kelly Markey and published by . This book was released on 2023-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reservoir of profoundly insightful case studies from the halls of history and the practical daily patterns, Kelly Markey examines the decisions we make, how we need to live with them and the discipline behind our emotions. Rather than settling for the default decision making-process Markey model's strategies to understand and master your emotions and other factors resulting in better choices and ultimately a superior life. Nothing is more essential than getting it right: it may mount to justice and injustice, progress and failure or the difference between life and death. How do you make sage decisions? The path may seem impossible at best of times! 'Making Sage Decisions' exposes the rational truths to great decision-making. It shows you the basic keys to consider when making finer choices that impact you, the destiny that unravels from your choices and the legacy you deliberately paint. Markey's energetic inscribes and lingering prose features history and characterisation with insightful knack. This compels the reader to make premier decisions. Kelly forensically unravels how we can unlearn so that we can make better choices while we learn new ways to a fine path in sage decision-making. A tightly plotted page turner characters are achingly real and shines a light on the highs and lows of the decision-making process. We need a fundamental shift in our decisions - better skills on how we live, let live and work in concert with each other. This book serves up practical reflection that prompts us to uncover biases, decipher new lenses and assert our need for transformation. It shines a light on our current decision patterns and the blind spots we foster. Markey illuminates a new path, a path that compels us to make sage decisions. An invaluable resource for those who seek to grow, evolve, and make a difference in the world. Kelly most definitely raised the bar for eloquence in writing. This book includes 5 self-help tools to guide every reader to make sage decisions. Kelly Markey is an unapologetically astonishing wordsmith. Intoxicating, powerful, morally engaged and thought-provoking. Kelly has the knack off nourishing both the heart and mind. The distinguished global intellectual of this era - a catalyst so needed in today's world. This book will take you on a journey of enlightenment, encouragement, empowerment, and engagement. Your decision to get this book is a great step towards your best life. Dr Adama Kalokoh, Majors in Public Health, United States of America I want my kids and all of humanity to read this book. Kelly is an exceptionally talented author and impeccable storyteller. Hazel Herrington, CEO and Founder, Herrington Publications Worldwide, Australia This is not just a book it is a masterpiece. It has captured my attention instantly and not broken focus since. Our world needs this book! Michelle Jewlal, Director of Lifeline, Zululand, South Africa Kelly's years of research, knowledge, personal experiences and passion to empower people will help individuals, businesses and the corporate arena to make sage decisions. Kelly's books will be cherished and referenced in the future. Conelia Harry, Journalist Zululand Observer, Richards Bay, South Africa I say this nourishing writing, a paradigm shift or an awakening of our third eye. Markey's magnum opus will certainly illicit raw emotions to your vanguard - a gripping page turner! An impeccable author that has a herculean skill to oblige humanity to think critically, this book serves a robust dose of that. Rajay Sahadev, Masters in Education, Shanghai, China

Download or read book Communication and Group Decision Making written by Randy Y. Hirokawa and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1996-07-09 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communication and Group Decision-Making takes stock of recent group communication research - with an explicit focus on communication processes. This book is recommended for academics, professionals and researchers in communication and organization

Download or read book Effective Meetings written by John E. Tropman and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1996 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows that the value of group decision making lies in its ability to bring together people with a variety of different expertise and experiences. These techniques are applied to problems such as health care, homlessness and family violence.

Download or read book Using Web and Paper Questionnaires for Data Based Decision Making written by Susan J. Thomas and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2004-03-06 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt: ...tribe. He had faculties. He had also various idiosyncrasies. He was undeniably the best hunter and trapper and trainer of dogs to sledge, as well as the most expert upon snowshoes of all the Indians living upon the point, and he was, furthermore, one of the dirtiest of them and the biggest drunkard whenever opportunity afforded. Fortunately for him and for his squaw, Bigbeam, as she had been facetiously named by an agent of the company, the opportunities for getting drunk were rare, for the company is conservative in the distribution of that which makes bad hunters. Given an abundance of firewater and tobacco, Red Dog was the happiest Indian between the northern boundary of the United States and Lake Gary; deprived of them both he hunted vigorously, thinking all the while of the coming hour when, after a long journey and much travail, he should be in what was his idea of heaven again. To-day, though, the rifle bought from the company stood idle beside the ridge-pole, the sledge dogs snarled and fought upon the snow outside, and Bigbeam, squat and broad as became her name, looked askance at her lord as she prepared the moose meat, uncertain of his temper, for his face was cloudy. Red Dog was, in fact, perplexed, and was planning deeply. Good reason was there for Red Dog's thought. Events of the immediate future were of moment to him and all his fellows, among whom, though no chief was formally acknowledged, he was recognized as leader; for had he not at one time been with the company as a hired hunter? Had he not once gone with a fur-carrying party even to Hudson's Bay, and thence to the far south and even to Quebec? And did he not know the ways of the company, and could not he talk a French patois which enabled him to be understood at the stations? Now, as fitting representative of himself and of his clan, a great responsibility had come upon him, and he was lost in as anxious thought as could come to a biped of his quality. Like a more or less...

Download or read book Making Sage Decisions written by Kelly Markey and published by Beyond Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reservoir of profoundly insightful case studies from the halls of history and the practical daily patterns, Kelly Markey examines the decisions we make, how we need to live with them and the discipline behind our emotions. Rather than settling for the default decision making-process Markey model's strategies to understand and master your emotions and other factors resulting in better choices and ultimately a superior life. Nothing is more essential than getting it right: it may mount to justice and injustice, progress and failure or the difference between life and death. How do you make sage decisions? The path may seem impossible at best of times! 'Making Sage Decisions' exposes the rational truths to great decision-making. It shows you the basic keys to consider when making finer choices that impact you, the destiny that unravels from your choices and the legacy you deliberately paint. Markey's energetic inscribes and lingering prose features history and characterisation with insightful knack. This compels the reader to make premier decisions. Kelly forensically unravels how we can unlearn so that we can make better choices while we learn new ways to a fine path in sage decision-making. A tightly plotted page turner characters are achingly real and shines a light on the highs and lows of the decision-making process. We need a fundamental shift in our decisions - better skills on how we live, let live and work in concert with each other. This book serves up practical reflection that prompts us to uncover biases, decipher new lenses and assert our need for transformation. It shines a light on our current decision patterns and the blind spots we foster. Markey illuminates a new path, a path that compels us to make sage decisions. An invaluable resource for those who seek to grow, evolve, and make a difference in the world. Kelly most definitely raised the bar for eloquence in writing. This book includes 5 self-help tools to guide every reader to make sage decisions. Kelly Markey is an unapologetically astonishing wordsmith. Intoxicating, powerful, morally engaged and thought-provoking. Kelly has the knack off nourishing both the heart and mind. The distinguished global intellectual of this era - a catalyst so needed in today's world. This book will take you on a journey of enlightenment, encouragement, empowerment, and engagement. Your decision to get this book is a great step towards your best life. Dr Adama Kalokoh, Majors in Public Health, United States of America I want my kids and all of humanity to read this book. Kelly is an exceptionally talented author and impeccable storyteller. Hazel Herrington, CEO and Founder, Herrington Publications Worldwide, Australia This is not just a book it is a masterpiece. It has captured my attention instantly and not broken focus since. Our world needs this book! Michelle Jewlal, Director of Lifeline, Zululand, South Africa Kelly's years of research, knowledge, personal experiences and passion to empower people will help individuals, businesses and the corporate arena to make sage decisions. Kelly's books will be cherished and referenced in the future. Conelia Harry, Journalist Zululand Observer, Richards Bay, South Africa I say this nourishing writing, a paradigm shift or an awakening of our third eye. Markey's magnum opus will certainly illicit raw emotions to your vanguard - a gripping page turner! An impeccable author that has a herculean skill to oblige humanity to think critically, this book serves a robust dose of that. Rajay Sahadev, Masters in Education, Shanghai, China

Download or read book Transforming Teaching and Learning Through Data Driven Decision Making written by Ellen B. Mandinach and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connect data and instruction to improve practice Gathering data and using it to inform instruction is a requirement for many schools, yet educators are not necessarily formally trained in how to do it. This book helps bridge the gap between classroom practice and the principles of educational psychology. Teachers will find cutting-edge advances in research and theory on human learning and teaching in an easily understood and transferable format. The text’s integrated model shows teachers, school leaders, and district administrators how to establish a data culture and transform quantitative and qualitative data into actionable knowledge based on: Assessment Statistics Instructional and differentiated psychology Classroom management

Download or read book The Psychology of Decision Making written by Lee R. Beach and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2005-01-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Psychology of Decision Making provides an overview of decision making as it relates to management, organizational behavior issues, and research. This engaging book examines the way individuals make decisions as well as how they form judgments privately and in the context of the organization. It also discusses the interplay of group and institutional dynamics and their effects upon the decisions made within and on the behalf of organizations.

Download or read book Multiple Attribute Decision Making written by Ching-Lai Hwang and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This mono graph is intended for an advanced undergraduate or graduate course as weIl as for the researchers who want a compilation of developments in this rapidly growing field of operations research. This is a sequel to our previous work entitled "Multiple Objective Decision Making--Methods and Applications: A State-of-the-Art Survey," (No. 164 of the Lecture Notes). The literature on methods and applications of Multiple Attribute Decision Making (MADM) has been reviewed and classified systematically. This study provides readers with a capsule look into the existing methods, their char acteristics, and applicability to analysis of MADM problems. The basic MADM concepts are defined and a standard notation is introduced in Part 11. Also introduced are foundations such as models for MADM, trans formation of attributes, fuzzy decision rules, and methods for assessing weight. A system of classifying seventeen major MADM methods is presented. These methods have been proposed by researchers in diversified disciplines; half of them are classical ones, but the other half have appeared recently. The basic concept, the computational procedure, and the characteristics of each of these methods are presented concisely in Part 111. The computational procedure of each method is illustrated by solving a simple numerical example. Part IV of the survey deals with the applications of these MADM methods.

Download or read book Ethical Decision Making for the 21st Century Counselor written by Donna S. Sheperis and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethical practice is an essential aspect of counselor training. In order for counselors to competently work with clients, they must be well versed in ethical codes, ethical decision making, and legal issues impacting the profession. Ethical Decision Making for the 21st Century Counselor provides the fundamentals of ethical practice, with emphasis on ethical decision making and is structured to facilitate the development of these skills. Authors Donna S. Sheperis, Stacy L. Henning, and Michael M. Kocet move the reader through a developmental process of understanding and applying ethical decision making. Individuals will be able to incorporate ethical practice into their understanding of the counseling process and integrate ethical decision making models into their counseling practice. This unique approach differs from existing texts because of its strong emphasis on practical decision making and focus on understanding the process of applying a standard ethical decision model to any ethical scenario. Students build a foundation in how to evaluate an ethical situation and feel confident that they have applied a set of decision models to reach the best decision.

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Medical Decision Making written by Michael W. Kattan and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2009-08-18 with total page 1281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Medical Decision Making presents state-of-the-art research and ready-to-use facts sorting out findings on medical decision making and their applications.

Download or read book Cultural Issues in End of Life Decision Making written by Kathryn L. Braun and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions that face dying individuals, their families, and the professionals that help them at the end of their lives are explored in this volume. The contributors help the reader to come to terms with issues of mortality complicated by the diversity of cultures within society.

Download or read book Do Emotions Help or Hurt Decisionmaking written by Kathleen D. Vohs and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2007-11-26 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophers have long tussled over whether moral judgments are the products of logical reasoning or simply emotional reactions. From Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility to the debates of modern psychologists, the question of whether feeling or sober rationality is the better guide to decision making has been a source of controversy. In Do Emotions Help or Hurt Decision Making? Kathleen Vohs, Roy Baumeister, and George Loewenstein lead a group of prominent psychologists and economists in exploring the empirical evidence on how emotions shape judgments and choices. Researchers on emotion and cognition have staked out many extreme positions: viewing emotions as either the driving force behind cognition or its side effect, either an impediment to sound judgment or a guide to wise decisions. The contributors to Do Emotions Help or Hurt Decision Making? provide a richer perspective, exploring the circumstances that shape whether emotions play a harmful or helpful role in decisions. Roy Baumeister, C. Nathan DeWall, and Liqing Zhang show that while an individual's current emotional state can lead to hasty decisions and self-destructive behavior, anticipating future emotional outcomes can be a helpful guide to making sensible decisions. Eduardo Andrade and Joel Cohen find that a positive mood can negatively affect people's willingness to act altruistically. Happy people, when made aware of risks associated with altruistic acts, become wary of jeopardizing their own well-being. Benoît Monin, David Pizarro, and Jennifer Beer find that whether emotion or reason matters more in moral evaluation depends on the specific issue in question. Individual characteristics often mediate the effect of emotions on decisions. Catherine Rawn, Nicole Mead, Peter Kerkhof, and Kathleen Vohs find that whether an individual makes a decision based on emotion depends both on the type of decision in question and the individual's level of self-esteem. And Quinn Kennedy and Mara Mather show that the elderly are better able to regulate their emotions, having learned from experience to anticipate the emotional consequences of their behavior. Do Emotions Help or Hurt Decision Making? represents a significant advance toward a comprehensive theory of emotions and cognition that accounts for the nuances of the mental processes involved. This landmark book will be a stimulus to scholarly debates as well as an informative guide to everyday decisions.

Download or read book Ethical Decision Making in School Administration written by Paul A. Wagner and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2008-10-22 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pedagogically rich, demographically inclusive, and culturally sensitive, Ethical Decision Making in School and District Administration exposes educational leaders to an interdisciplinary array of theories from the fields of education, economics, management, and moral philosophy (past and present). Authors Paul A. Wagner and Douglas J. Simpson demonstrate how understanding key concepts can dramatically improve management styles and protocols. Key Features Contains numerous case studies that apply the book's concepts to relevant ethical issues faced by school administrators Reveals possibilities for thinking outside the box in terms of morally informed and effective leadership strategies aimed at securing organizational commitment and shared vision Presents multiple theories of ethics, demonstrating how they inform decision making and culture building in school districts Incorporates a range of in-text learning aids, including figures that clarify and critique ideas, a complete glossary, and end-of-chapter activities and questions

Download or read book Decision Making for Business written by Graeme Salaman and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 2001-10-19 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting essential readings concerned with the importance of clear decisions, the processes of decision making and the implications of flawed practice, this textbook reveals patterns of decision making and a range of theories.

Download or read book Sampling Essentials written by Johnnie Daniel and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2011-04-25 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for students taking research methods courses, this text provides a thorough overview of sampling principles. The author gives detailed, nontechnical descriptions and guidelines with limited presentation of formulas to help students reach basic research decisions, such as whether to choose a census or a sample, as well as how to select sample size and sample type. Intended for students and researchers in the social and behavioral sciences, public health research, marketing research, and related areas, the text provides nonstatisticians with the concepts and techniques they need to do quality work and make good sampling choices.