Concept information
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business and management
leadership (business)
process approach to leadership
situational leadership
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evaluation, testing, and research methods
qualitative research
qualitative data collection
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evaluation, testing, and research methods
qualitative research
qualitative data collection
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theories, models, and philosophical perspectives
qualitative research
qualitative data collection
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Preferred term
decision making
Definition
- Decision making is the primary function of administrators in formal organizations, which are, essentially, decision-making structures. The centrality of decision making was established early in the development of organizational theory. [Source: Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership and Administration; Decision Making]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- bounded rationality
- bureaucratic politics approach
- choice behavior
- communicative rationality
- complexity of decision making
- computer-assisted decision making
- consensus
- dissent and disputes
- forecasting
- frame analysis
- game theory
- hedging
- incrementalism
- irrationality
- local reasoning
- majority cycle
- negotiating
- negotiation
- optimal decision making
- Pareto optimality
- participative decision making
- planning (general)
- policy learning
- prisoner's dilemma
- problem structure
- public choice theory
- Rational Choice Theory
- rationality
- revealed preference
- satisficing behavior
- sensemaking
- social choice
- social learning
- strategic planning
- the psychology underlying decision making
Belongs to group
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/decision_making
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