Organizational Decision-Making.

Abstract

This thesis develops a heuristic approach to organizational decision-making by synthesizing the classical, neo-classical and contingency approaches to organization theory. The conceptual framework developed also integrates the rational and cybernetic approaches with cognitive processes underlying the decision-making process. The components of the approach address the role of environment in organizational decision-making, develop a typology of decision situations, display the communication of decision dimensions and examine the role of critical variables in the decision-making process. The development of the approach is supported by its application to a short case-study. Given the existing difficulty in evaluating both commercial and public policy formulation and decision outcomes, the conceptual framework developed is intended to be a useful tool descriptively, predictively and prescriptively for analyzing the organizational decision-making process. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA056327

Entities

People

  • Gregory L. Harm

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cognition
  • Commerce
  • Complex Systems
  • Computer Programming
  • Corporations
  • Decision Theory
  • Environment
  • Game Theory
  • Organization Theory
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personality
  • Political Science
  • Psychology
  • Public Policy
  • Recreation
  • Social Psychology
  • Standards

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