STRATEGIC CHOICE AND STRATEGIC DECISION MAKING Andy Adcroft STRUCTURE • Why do things happen? • Generic Strategies • Criticisms of generic strategies WHY DO THINGS HAPPEN? Norms and what has happened before Environment Analysis Roles and wider functions Creation of options Organisational Analysis What we want to achieve Emotions‚ power desires‚ goals Age and frequency of behaviours What I want from this job Habits‚ rituals and routines Social factors Decisions are taken and implemented WHY
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Decision-Making Reflection Exercise I will offer 2 examples of cognitive biases as well as suspect group decision-making processes that initially would have led to catastrophic results if counter action had failed to correct the situation. I led a clinical research team to select an outsourcing company from three candidates each of which could conduct a clinical trial for us. I struggled with the decision making process for a number of reasons. First‚ there were 15 different specialists
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later. Groupthink is defined as a group’s inability to make correct decisions as a result of the implied need for group cohesion. “Janis provides a series of statements that collectively are a definition of groupthink: ‘Groupthink refers to a deterioration of mental efficiency‚ reality testing‚ and moral judgment that results from in-group pressures’” (Hutter 5). Group members force themselves to come to an agreement about decisions even when some members may have differing opinions on the subject
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Decision Making Model Analysis Decision-making and critical thinking have a distinct relationship‚ it is a relationship where one is used as a support tool for the other. Critical Thinking is ... conceptualized as a process of active critical and creative inquiry. It is viewed as a cognitive approach to an active‚ rational assessment of information... and is based on an awareness and understanding of a set of logical analyses that permit a rational evaluation of arguments.’ Decision
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to be taken. Including these expectations will encourage consistency. The best way for employees of an organization to adjust to change is by making them inclusive in the communication. If employees begin to feel excluded‚ it can potentially challenge
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Introduction The purpose of this paper is to answer a few important questions: Why do companies allocate costs? How do companies allocate costs? And how this cost allocation can affect the decision making of the company. It is important for the companies to find the proper method to allocate the costs. Cost allocation is an important issue in many companies because many of the costs associated with designing‚ producing and distributing products and services are not easily identified with the
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Thinking and Decision Making Paper Kim Abrahamson‚ Tom Kish University of Phoenix - MGT 350 Karen V. Amabile October 8‚ 2007 Thinking and Decision Making Paper Introduction Thinking styles and decision making‚ as we can see in today’s world there are many different types of people and as such there many different ways to think and come to decisions. However‚ thinking styles can traditionally be categorized into four groups: persuasive‚ creative‚ scientific and logical. It is by using
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Military Decision Making Process The Military Decision Making Process (MDMP) is a decision-making model to assist military members in making sound military decisions and to compile operation orders. This paper will describe MDMP and apply it to a recent job-related decision of the author; preparation for a combat logistics patrol (CLP) while deployed in Iraq. The paper will identify the steps in the model and describe how critical thinking impacted the decision. The Steps of the Military Decision Making
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Brand Perception & Decision Making Most imaging and document product segments are extremely competitive‚ with multiple brands competing for “share of mind” in the battle for overall market share. In many cases the competing products and services have very similar feature sets and price points that are available through comparable channels. Brand can often be the key discriminating factor in a customer’s decision to select one product over another. Brand is essentially the sum of all experiences
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Compensation: The Case of General Electric by Nwabueze‚ Scott‚ Horak‚ and Chhotu‚ new management came in the form of Jeffrey Immelt in 2003 and changes were made. Instead of continuing with this guaranteed payment‚ management made the long-overdue decision in regard to economic feasibility. Top leaders were seen as irreplaceable it seemed and paid as such to retain them. Alternatives were examined and it was decided that guaranteed stock options were replaced by performance based units (PSUs).
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