Five Elements for Organizational Decision-Making with an Environmental Management System

Five elements for organizational decision-making with an environmental management system.

Environmental management systems (EMSs) are growing in popularity as tools to manage corporate environmental issues. Despite widespread use, existing frameworks for EMSs may not provide organizations with the knowledge needed for decision-making. Through a synthesis of case studies and workshops, we suggest five elements for EMSs to be expanded for organizational decision-making. The five eleme...

An AHP-Delphi Multi-Criteria Decision Making Model with Application to Environmental Decision-Making

Environmental determination or organizational design: An exploration of organizational decision making under environmental uncertainty

The relationship between the environment and organizational designs has been a main focus for the past several decades, often with different and even opposing views. Through a computer simulation model, this study attempts to provide a coherent framework by exploring how environmental uncertainty affects organizational decision making performance in an open systems setting where organizations c...

Early Experience with System Dynamics Modeling for Organizational Decision Making

Increased business dynamics mandates modern organizations to proactively prepare their response to operating environment changes. Typically, large size organizations consist of multiple interconnected departments. Individual department strategies need to be balanced so as overall organization performance is improved. With increased number of interdependent strategic parameters, complexity of th...

The first national Olympiad on reasoning and decision making in Health system management an experience Report

Introduction: Health system management is regarded a chief duty and skill of health care providers. However, medical students do not receive enough training for it. The first national Olympiad for students of medical sciences was designed to motivate students for acquiring managerial skills, improve reasoning and problem solving skills, and also propagate team working in students in an excitin...