Decision-making, contextual factors and values in power consumption

Modeling contextual decision making in service organizations

Motivation Service organizations rely on efficient, high quality satisfaction of customer needs. In industries as diverse as call centers, banks, and healthcare, managers attempt to institute quality standards through standardized protocols, best practice guidelines, and workflow management systems. These devices offer a good understanding of the ideal process, but inadequately describe the con...

Investigating the contextual, environmental factors and capacity making strategies of sports in the country

The present study aims to investigate the contextual, environmental and strategies capacities making the countrychr(chr(chr('39')39chr('39'))39chr(chr('39')39chr('39')))s sports were done. The research method was mixed (qualitative-quantitative), in the qualitative part the phenomenological method was used and in the quantitative part the descriptive-survey method was used. The statistical samp...

Integrating Contextual Issues in Ethical Decision Making

The Roles of Decentralization of the Decision Making Process between Contextual Factors and Decision Process Output

The purpose of this paper is to identify the roles of decentralization of the strategic decision-making process between contextual factors and decision process output. From analysis of alternative research approaches, a field survey was most appropriate methodological choice. This study is a field study of real organizations rather than an artificial setting. The questionnaire consists of items...

Power and overconfident decision-making

Five experiments demonstrate that experiencing power leads to overconfident decision-making. Using multiple instantiations of power, including an episodic recall task (Experiments 1–3), a measure of work-related power (Experiment 4), and assignment to highand low-power roles (Experiment 5), power produced overconfident decisions that generated monetary losses for the powerful. The current findi...