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What is Decision-Making Model

Forecasting and Managing Risk in the Health and Safety Sectors
An analytical construct that identifies the essential elements of the decision-making process (i.e., the decision maker, his cognitive attitudes, the research activities of the solutions, the modalities and criteria of the choice, and above all, the relationships that exist between all these different elements).
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Orientism Management Strategy for Training Policy-Makers in Emergency Decision-Making
Luisa dall'Acqua (Scientific Lyceum TCO, Italy & University of Bologna, Italy)
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 36
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7903-8.ch006
Abstract
Policy-making is asked to define criteria and decisional support to respond to emergencies and a complex mix of social, environmental, economic, and cultural problems. Politics, especially at the highest levels, requires preparing professionals able to manage the opportunities offered by new technologies in the context of security and management. Risk analysis is an increasingly urgent necessity and challenge. Research data needs to be packaged into effective policy tools that will help policy-makers make an evidence-informed policy. The objective of this chapter is to offer a framework of analysis (Orientism Management OM Framework) useful for training policy-makers to develop a multi-perspective informed policy. It intends orienting the variety of backgrounds, interests, knowledge, skills, and the whole personality of the trainees, individually or within a work team.
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