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What is Decision Making

Chapter 11
Technology-Supported Teaching and Research Methods for Educators
The action or process of choosing a reasonable alternative from the available options.
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Emerging Technologies in Teaching, Research, and Learning: GIS Technology and Methods in Education
Colbert Mutiso Jackson (University of Eastern Africa, Kenya) and Dickson Kinoti Kibetu (Chuka University, Kenya)
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5915-3.ch011
Abstract
A GIS is a tool for working with geographic information. Therefore, its primary purpose is to maintain data about geographic space. A GIS application deals with spatial information on a computer. GIS software presents earth features on a computer and then uses GIS to visualize, question, analyze, and understand this data about the world and human activity. Often this data is viewed on a map. This chapter shows the relationship between geographical information technology and society and provides educators and policymakers with a basic understanding of GIS, its relevance to teaching and learning, and suggest possible ways for implementing GIS technology in the classroom. This means that GIS has an educational agenda to meet, since this technology presents several opportunities for teachers to implement learner-centered approaches for various subjects.
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Chapter 6
Some Hybrid Soft Sets and Their Application in Decision Making
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Chapter 1
Importance of Brain Reward System in Neuromarketing
Decision making is the process of making choices by identifying a decision, gathering information, and evaluating other resolutions.
Published in Chapter: Importance of Brain Reward System in Neuromarketing; From: Analyzing the Strategic Role of Neuromarketing and Consumer Neuroscience
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Chapter 11
Finding Star Performer Leaders: The Secret to Running Successful Organizations
In addition to generating potentially effective solutions to problems, weighing the pros and cons of each possibility and deciding on the best solution, this is the ability to make good decisions in general. Moreover, it is the ability to come up with a potentially effective plan that requires coping with ambiguity and exercising sound judgement even when working under pressure and dealing with potential risks.
Published in Chapter: Finding Star Performer Leaders: The Secret to Running Successful Organizations; From: Handbook of Research on Strategic Communication, Leadership, and Conflict Management in Modern Organizations
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Chapter 11
Managerial Decision Support in the Post-COVID-19 Era: Towards Information-Based Management
A multicriterial and multidisciplinary process of selecting an activity or series of activities among several alternatives.
Published in Chapter: Managerial Decision Support in the Post-COVID-19 Era: Towards Information-Based Management; From: Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Sustainability, and ICTs in the Post-COVID-19 Era
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Chapter 9
Modified TOPSIS Method With Banking Case Study
Selection of the best among the various alternatives.
Published in Chapter: Modified TOPSIS Method With Banking Case Study; From: Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis in Management
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Chapter 24
Capturing Tacit Knowledge within Business Simulation Games
The mental cognitive process associated with selection of one course of action out of several alternatives.
Published in Chapter: Capturing Tacit Knowledge within Business Simulation Games; From: Handbook of Research on Serious Games as Educational, Business and Research Tools
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Chapter 6
Modelling in Support of Decision Making in Business Intelligence
It is a process for alternatives recognition based on custom preferences and specific goals with aim an appropriate solution to be chosen.
Published in Chapter: Modelling in Support of Decision Making in Business Intelligence; From: Integration Challenges for Analytics, Business Intelligence, and Data Mining
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Chapter 117
Data Hierarchies for Generalization of Imprecise Data
The process of making choices among alternative based on sours of information or intelligence.
Published in Chapter: Data Hierarchies for Generalization of Imprecise Data; From: Encyclopedia of Data Science and Machine Learning
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Chapter 9
E-Trading Decision Making: An Integrated Digital Marketing Approach With Theory and Cases
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Chapter 44
Interfacing Communication and ICTs in a Divisionalised Structure: Effects on Good Governance
It is an organisational concept referring to making choices among alternative courses of action.
Published in Chapter: Interfacing Communication and ICTs in a Divisionalised Structure: Effects on Good Governance; From: Encyclopedia of Organizational Knowledge, Administration, and Technology
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Human Capital Management in the Context of the Implementation of Digital Intelligent Decision Support Systems and Knowledge Management: Theoretical and Methodological Aspects
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Chapter 23
A Decision Support System for Evaluation of Investments in a Computer-Integrated Production System
Decision making is a cognitive process of choosing between alternative courses of action.
Published in Chapter: A Decision Support System for Evaluation of Investments in a Computer-Integrated Production System; From: Encyclopedia of Decision Making and Decision Support Technologies
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Chapter 9
Literacy and Decision Making on Health Issues among Married Women in Southwest Nigeria
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Chapter 36
Augmenting Organizational Knowledge Management Using Geographic Information Systems
The process of choosing a reasonable alternative from the available options.
Published in Chapter: Augmenting Organizational Knowledge Management Using Geographic Information Systems; From: Encyclopedia of Organizational Knowledge, Administration, and Technology
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Chapter 3
Mindset, Decision Making, and Motivation
The act of making a cognitive effort to choose one idea over another.
Published in Chapter: Mindset, Decision Making, and Motivation; From: Ethical Problem-Solving and Decision-Making for Positive and Conclusive Outcomes
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Chapter 112
The Role of HRIS in Crisis Response Planning
The processes of thought and action involving an irrevocable allocation of resources that culminates in choice behavior.
Published in Chapter: The Role of HRIS in Crisis Response Planning; From: Encyclopedia of Human Resources Information Systems: Challenges in e-HRM
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Chapter 10
Consumer Neuroscience: Evolution and Commercial Applications
The ability to make choices in certain and uncertain conditions.
Published in Chapter: Consumer Neuroscience: Evolution and Commercial Applications; From: Analyzing the Strategic Role of Neuromarketing and Consumer Neuroscience
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Chapter 12
AI-Enabled Internet of Nano Things Methodology for Healthcare Information Management
In order to make decisions, one must first acknowledge the existence of a problem, then gather all of the pertinent evidence, and finally consider the relative merits of the various prospective solutions. You are able to make choices that are more deliberate and well thought out when you use decision-making processes that involve a series of steps. These processes can help you organise relevant information and establish alternatives.
Published in Chapter: AI-Enabled Internet of Nano Things Methodology for Healthcare Information Management; From: AI-Enabled Multiple-Criteria Decision-Making Approaches for Healthcare Management
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Chapter 190
Preferences, Utility, and Stochastic Approximation
A complex and incompletely understood process which addresses the qualitative or intuitive aspects of human behavior and makes a claim for the potential of computer-based applications to a decision maker's qualitative cognitive processes.
Published in Chapter: Preferences, Utility, and Stochastic Approximation; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition
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Chapter 14
Comprehending Algorithmic Bias and Strategies for Fostering Trust in Artificial Intelligence
Decision making entails the act of choosing a specific option or path of action from a range of available alternatives (Unni, 2020).
Published in Chapter: Comprehending Algorithmic Bias and Strategies for Fostering Trust in Artificial Intelligence; From: Digital Technologies, Ethics, and Decentralization in the Digital Era
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Chapter 10
Customer Decision Making in Web Services
A selection of choices or alternatives for solving a problem or reaching a goal. Section is at the centre of any decision making.
Published in Chapter: Customer Decision Making in Web Services; From: Handbook of Research on E-Business Standards and Protocols: Documents, Data and Advanced Web Technologies
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Chapter 179
Rational and Intuitive Decision Making Style
The process which conclude to making the choice between alternatives.
Published in Chapter: Rational and Intuitive Decision Making Style; From: Encyclopedia of Business Analytics and Optimization
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Chapter 64
Decision Making Methods
Decision making is the study of identifying and choosing alternatives based on the values and preferences of the decision maker. Making a decision implies that there are alternative choices to be considered, and in such a case we want not only to identify as many of these alternatives as possible but to choose the one that best fits with our goals, objectives, desires, values, and so on.
Published in Chapter: Decision Making Methods; From: Encyclopedia of Business Analytics and Optimization
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Chapter 9
Science and Mathematics Teacher Collaboration in Higher Education: A Pedagogical Experience Using Inquiry Learning Spaces
Element of the cycle of inquiry related with allocation, security, boundary, evaluation, and instructional decisions. The most relevant element in decision making is the teacher teams’ decisions about their individual and collective instructional practices and their effects on student learning (according to Woodland et al., 2013 ).
Published in Chapter: Science and Mathematics Teacher Collaboration in Higher Education: A Pedagogical Experience Using Inquiry Learning Spaces; From: Handbook of Research on Interdisciplinarity Between Science and Mathematics in Education
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Chapter 13
Leadership in the Post-COVID-19 Era: New Leaders of the New Normal
It is the individuals' choosing among all their options, sometimes with their feelings, sometimes with their intuition, and sometimes rationally.
Published in Chapter: Leadership in the Post-COVID-19 Era: New Leaders of the New Normal; From: Global Perspectives on Change Management and Leadership in the Post-COVID-19 Era
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Chapter 8
Use of Mobile Technology in Assessing Occupational Performance and Stress in Firefighters
The ability to make the correct decision or appropriate course of action among several alternative option, particularly while in uncertain situations, while under external pressure.
Published in Chapter: Use of Mobile Technology in Assessing Occupational Performance and Stress in Firefighters; From: Handbook of Research on New Media, Training, and Skill Development for the Modern Workforce
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Chapter 10
TOPSIS vs. VIKOR: A Case Study for Determining Development Level of Countries
Selection of the best among the various alternatives.
Published in Chapter: TOPSIS vs. VIKOR: A Case Study for Determining Development Level of Countries; From: Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis in Management
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Chapter 11
Analytic Rubrics for Decision Making
The act of drawing a conscious conclusion and acting upon that conclusion.
Published in Chapter: Analytic Rubrics for Decision Making; From: Encyclopedia of Business Analytics and Optimization
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Chapter 10
An Overview of Tourism Supply Chains Management and Optimization Models (TSCM – OM)
The process of finding and choosing one alternative among several choice possibilities. Every decision-making process carries out a final result that may or may not prompt action.
Published in Chapter: An Overview of Tourism Supply Chains Management and Optimization Models (TSCM – OM); From: Handbook of Research on Holistic Optimization Techniques in the Hospitality, Tourism, and Travel Industry
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Chapter 24
The Neuromarketing Revolution: Bringing Science and Technology to Marketing Insight
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Chapter 48
Knowledge Calibration and Knowledge Management
The process and the act of making decisions.
Published in Chapter: Knowledge Calibration and Knowledge Management; From: Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management, Second Edition
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Chapter 184
Reverse Logistics Design with Neural Networks
To develop a process to choose the best of options.
Published in Chapter: Reverse Logistics Design with Neural Networks; From: Encyclopedia of Business Analytics and Optimization
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Chapter 5
Does the Potential Entrepreneur Need to Think Procedurally?
A skill when a manager is able to choose an appropriate variant to solve a problem in a business.
Published in Chapter: Does the Potential Entrepreneur Need to Think Procedurally?; From: Developing Entrepreneurial Competencies for Start-Ups and Small Business
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Chapter 68
Bias in Data-Informed Decision Making
A process involving gathering information and assessing alternative solutions to arrive at the optimal choice.
Published in Chapter: Bias in Data-Informed Decision Making; From: Encyclopedia of Data Science and Machine Learning
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Chapter 54
Data Guided Public Healthcare Decision Making
Decision making is a collective process of selecting an option over others based on a value system.
Published in Chapter: Data Guided Public Healthcare Decision Making; From: Encyclopedia of Business Analytics and Optimization
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Chapter 1
Process Mining in Production Management, Intelligent Control, and Advanced KPI for Dynamic Process Optimization: Industry 5.0 Production Processes
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Chapter 55
Preferences, Utility, and Stochastic Approximation
A complex and incompletely understood process which addresses the qualitative or intuitive aspects of human behavior and makes a claim for the potential of computer-based applications to a decision maker's qualitative cognitive processes.
Published in Chapter: Preferences, Utility, and Stochastic Approximation; From: Advanced Methodologies and Technologies in Business Operations and Management
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Chapter 18
Case Study of Gender and Career Choices: Being and Becoming Medical People
In psychology, decision-making (also spelled decision making and decision making) is regarded as the cognitive process resulting in the selection of a belief or a course of action among several possible alternative options, it could be either rational or irrational. Decision-making process is a reasoning process based on assumptions of values, preferences, and beliefs of the decision-maker.
Published in Chapter: Case Study of Gender and Career Choices: Being and Becoming Medical People; From: Handbook of Research on Representing Health and Medicine in Modern Media
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Chapter 6
The Role of Artificial Intelligence Within the Scope of Digital Transformation in Enterprises
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Chapter 529
Analytic Hierarchy Process as a Decision Tool for Operative Marketing
Selection process among several alternative scenarios, where results a final choice.
Published in Chapter: Analytic Hierarchy Process as a Decision Tool for Operative Marketing; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition
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Chapter 13
A Fuzzy Group Decision-Making Approach to Construction Project Risk Management
Decision making is regarded as the cognitive process resulting in the selection of a belief or a course of action among several alternative possibilities. Every decision-making process produces a final choice that may or may not prompt action. Decision-making is the process of identifying and choosing alternatives based on the values and preferences of the decision-maker.
Published in Chapter: A Fuzzy Group Decision-Making Approach to Construction Project Risk Management; From: Handbook of Research on Leveraging Risk and Uncertainties for Effective Project Management
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Chapter 7
Economic Empowerment of Women in Pakistan
The entire process of decision making about anything important or unimportant regarding the family or the individual in the family that require participation of the family members. It has been used to identify if women have a say in the family on the issues having its effects for long term.
Published in Chapter: Economic Empowerment of Women in Pakistan; From: Contemporary Global Perspectives on Gender Economics
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