The call for more effective integration of science and decision making is ubiquitous in environmental management. While scientists often complain that their input is ignored by decision makers, the latter have also expressed dissatisfaction that critical information for their decision making is often not readily available or accessible to them, or not presented in a usable form. It has been sug...

participation of workers in decision making commensurate with their functional capacity is very useful for the development of human resources which accelerates the goal attainment. participative management and its theoretical history in the west, leadership and management theories through utilization of the results of questionnair regarding the styles. of leadership, combination of personnel re...

important to empower the management and staff with data warehousing-based critical thinking and knowledge management tools for strategic decision-making. Many healthcare organizations struggle with the utilization of data collected through an organization’s on-line transaction processing (OLTP) system, which is not integrated for decision-making and pattern analysis. Do you know what your top 1...

If, according to Gaetano Mosca, the Italian social thinker, we define elites as individuals and groups, that, as a result of the power they gain, they plan idea and, as a result of that, make decisions that are effective in the community action; thus, at the macro and national levels, the elites and experts of each country are considered as the most important and valuable treasure of the countr...

People have to make important decisions within a time frame. Hence, it is imperative to employ means or strategy to aid effective decision making. Consequently, Economic Intelligence (EI) has emerged as a field to aid strategic and timely decision making in an organization. In the course of attaining this goal: it is indispensable to be more optimistic towards provision for conservation of inte...

Decision-making problems in water resources are often associated with multiple objectives and multiple stakeholders. To enable more effective and acceptable decision outcome, it is required that more participation is ensured in the decision making process. This is particularly relevant for flood management problems where the number of stakeholders could be very large. Although application of mu...