The executive decisionmaking process : identifying problems and assessing outcomes / Ralph Sanders.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sanders, Ralph.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decision making.

Problem solving.

Executives.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 p.)

Other Title:

Executive decision making process

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Quorum, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Decisionmaking literature, which has emphasized the act of solving problems, has long neglected the need to identify problems as precisely as possible. This book examines the nature of problems and decisionmaking and their impact on people who direct an organization. It further focuses on how executives respond to take action at the upper levels of their organizations. The book stresses problem identification, which executives frequently ignore because of their preoccupation with problem solving. It looks at the need to avoid viewing solutions as remedies achieved at predetermined milestones. It examines options other than solutions, such as accommodation and coping, and it looks at the executive environment associated with outcomes along a spectrum ranging from perfection, to progress, to failure. The author argues that executives should abandon the attempt to predetermine objectives over time and adopt a Problem Exchange Ratio (PER) concept. The executive then compares the status of problems over time, creating a ratio. The PER approach considers the problems that solutions themselves trigger. It then allows executives to see where they stand and suggests ways of ameliorating unwanted conditions. The author provides illustrative cases and episodes from both the public and private sectors. Combining theory and practical aspects of executive decisionmaking, this book gives the reader a fuller understanding of the link between decisions and problems.

Contents:

Contents; Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Problem Identification; Introduction; Doing the Job; The Information Base; Information Tendencies; Different Prisms; Critical Factors; Hidden Information; Skills; Alternate Outcomes; Problem Substitution; Degrees of Effectiveness; Perceived Outcomes; Summary; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [156]-167) and index.

ISBN:

9780313004438

0313004439

9780585383828

0585383820

OCLC:

847195148