Decision Making Styles: Classification System, Contextual Analysis and Validation of Classification System
Abstract
The Joint Command Decision Support for the 21st Century Technology Demonstration (JCDS 21 TD) project investigates individual and organizational factors, as well as technology, with respect to decision making. As part of the JCDS 21 TD work plan, it is necessary to gain an understanding of current scientific research on human decision making, individual differences, and the potential to identify consistent individual preferences for specific decision making styles. Research has indicated that a variety of individual factors affect the way in which people make decisions. In addition, individual strategies can be more or less suited to different kinds of task domains. Thus, it is important to develop an understanding of the individual differences in decision making strategies or approaches. This work seeks to identify separate decision strategies within an organized categorization scheme that is based on empirical research. This framework will serve as the basis for exploring the individual factors that predict the use of given strategies as well as the consistency with which individuals favor any given strategy. The ultimate aim of this work was the development of a survey tool that could be used to classify the kinds of decision strategies consistently adopted by an individual. The work represents follow-on work from a literature survey in which a review was conducted of current scientific literature relevant to decision making styles and person-based, social/group, and situation/context factors that may affect one's preference for specific decision making styles. The report describes a contextual analysis of tasks performed by the JSTAFF with respect to decision-making styles, the development of a decision-making styles classification system, and an experimental validation methodology that can be used to evaluate the decision-making styles classification system.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 2006
- Accession Number
- ADA472965
Entities
People
- F. Bandali
- L. B. Martin
- T. Lamoureux
Organizations
- HumanSystems Incorporated