Decision Making Article Reviews Samples For Students

Article Summary

Mental accounting is a group of cognitive operations that households and individuals use individuals to organise, evaluate, and keep track of business operations. The article summarises the current state of our components of mental knowledge about how people engage in mental accounting. The article is a depth analysis of mental accounting in relation to personal decision-making. The author starts by introducing mental accounting. According to the author, the difference between mental accounting and financial and managerial accounting is the fact that mental accounting involves households and individuals and not organisations.
The other also highlights the process of mental decision-making. The ...

Most management experts profess the efficacy of decision making in groups as compared to individuals. This review, however, would focus on certain Group Decision making concepts in the article by Jason Zweig by analyzing the positives and negatives of group decision making and applying these concepts to illustrations in the article.
This paper will begin by highlighting the positive aspects of decision making in a group. The most obvious aspects of group based decision making include a greater combined pool of knowledge, different perspectives that people within the group bring to the table, greater understanding of the rationale behind decisions, ...

How would you characterize the current decision-making process?

The decision-making process is ineffective and irrational. The poor decision-making process is the cause of the dilemma at the organization. The meetings held by departmental managers are contentious because they are full of anger and blame. The managers fail to agree concerning the right decision to implement. Man team members lack an opportunity to express their views thus they are forced to accept decisions imposed by the officials. Emma makes a go/no-go decision, and this thwarts the decision-making process at the organization. The communication process between the top executives is inadequate. There is a lack of real leadership during the decision-making ...

- There are quite a number of issues that need to be understood before implementing Business Sufficiency, Business Spheres and Decision Cockpits. First of all, implementing these systems would require a lot of investment. Since, the company is planning to implement these systems at the organization; it will require massive investment in terms of software, hardware, and overall system implementation. The second investment for organization will be in terms of human capital investment. All the personnel who are expected to use these systems will have to get training on how to use these systems. Later, they will have to be imparted ...

Patients Who Lack Decision-Making Capacity

Patients who Lack Decision-Making Capacity
This article discussed the proper assessment and management of a patient who may be lacking with decision-making capacity (DMC). The lacking of decision-making capacity is the patient’s condition in which oftentimes diagnosed as to be suffering from dementia, delirium, or other psychiatric issues. Specifically, this article provided hospital discharge against medical advises (AMA) as an example, wherein a patient who lacks decision-making capacity would demand to leave the hospital. It was described that being discharged from the hospital against medical advice would occur to a higher chance of readmission and has been linked to higher ...

Charles E. Lindblom, The Science Of “Muddling Through, 1959

THESIS: In the view of Charles E. Lindblom, limited policy analysis is used by the executive bureaucracy of U.S. The department uses rational approach to formulate the public policy. He also emphasize that the decision making process takes a long time to draw the conclusion. The decision making process includes three steps i.e. is addressing the policy issue, identifying and analyzing the alternatives, and implementation of the selected alternative. In the view of Charles E. Lindblom the enhancements and adjustments is the solution for speeding up the decision-making process for public administration policy.
A decision is considered as ‘correct’, ‘ ...

Charles E. Lindblom, The Science of Muddling Through, 1959

Thesis: This article discusses about the various nuances related to choices in policy making and introduces two different approaches to workout choices for policymaking. The article discusses about the advantages and disadvantages of using different methods of policy making in Public Administration and tries to find out the best way to help create modifications in policies in accordance with the changing trends.
“It would not, as in the first method of policy-making, approximate a more mechanical process of choosing the means that best satisfied goals that were previously clarified and ranked.” (Page 159)
“Accordingly, I propose in this ...

Charles E. Lindblom. The Science of “Muddling Through.” 1959.
Thesis: According to Charles, the United States bureaucracy uses bounded rationality and limited policy analysis in formulating regulations. He states that root analysis is a more comprehensive approach for decision-making than branch analysis. Charles, however, argues that policy makers lack the intellectual capacity to accomplish a root analysis, hence the lack of policy developments in organizations. The author states that a rational decision-making approach is not possible and explains why political maneuvering in decision-making was favorable.

“In the United States, for example, no part of government attempts a comprehensive overview of policy” (165)

“Limits on human intellectual capacities and on available information set definite limits to man’s capacity ...

Introduction

The decision making mantle in an organization is placed under the management. The top administration has the responsibility of making general decisions that have significant effect in an organization. However, this mantle is not solely under the management. The process of decision making should be constructed from the departmental heads. Decisions that may affect department are generated from decision generated from the departmental level. Generally, the decision making process should include all the parties and stakeholders in the organization under the command of the top administration. This enables for a well inclusive decision generated to fit the solutions needed for ...

Article: “Evidence-Based Management”

In the article “Evidence-Based Management” Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton give an overview of the main principles of their own newly-established management method of efficient decision-making – evidence-based management. Dwelling on the importance of making the right decision for managers, the authors emphasize the obvious at first sight, yet not fully researched and not always considered, step towards this tough process that every manager faces on a daily basis – before the actual decision-making, a good manager is required to study the issues inside out and only after the evidence of a real benefit of this decision for a company can be presented and ...

Communication

“Change the Way You Persuade”

Gary A. Williams and Robert B. Miller have a combined life experience of sixty years in executive management and consulting. Williams is CEO and Miller is the chairman of their firm, Miller Williams Incorporated. Helping business executives understand their customers is William’s specialty; executive management is Miller’s specialty. The table is turned on executives in this research which describes how to recognize the decision-making style of a business leader and how to persuade the exec based on their style. The article “Change the Way You Persuade” reports the research project’s results plus offers a ...

Introduction

Being an entrepreneur means you have to do and accomplish a lot of things and you have to have good decision-making skills to achieve that goal. It is also a part of an entrepreneur’s responsibility to slow down and take every decision to be made seriously, in order to avoid the harmful effects of poorly made and unplanned decisions.
In managing a business, whether it is a start-up or an already established one, there are a lot of aspects that an administrator or the owner has to consider. The best examples would be the legal and regulatory aspects, political, cultural, demographic and ...

Article 2 Summary: Duncan, J. W. 2011. Everything is Obvious, Once You Know You Know the Answer: How Common Sense Fails Us. New York: Crown Business. Retrieved on September 09, 2011 from http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6785.html
It is imperative for leaders to exercise common sense especially in modern day leadership which requires decisions to be made fast.
Modern day decisions making is rapid and often done without much research or application of any theories and the expectation is to have below average risk exposure.
The decision making can be improved through wisdom and experience, failure or absence of these ...

Leaders as Decision Architects – a Comprehensive Analysis

Decision-making is one of the focal points in contemporary business management. Moreover, the today’s economies are particularly vibrant and dynamic, making it necessary to make the decisions quickly. In their article ‘Leaders as Decision Architects’, John Beshears and Francesca Gino argue that the decision-making context should be substantially modified. In particular, the authors emphasize that all critical behavioral issues, which surround a decision-making process, should be identified, and the factors, which maximize the chances of errors, should be removed. Special attention is laid to the importance of mitigating the impacts of different emotional biases and poor motivation. Generally, ...

Although many determinants are involved in business decision-making, a significant number of strong scholarly arguments confirm the idea that the main underlying aspects in this regard are motivation of the leaders and their cognitive biases (Monahan, 2000). This essay speaks about the key underlying causes of cognitive biases and poor motivation of company leaders, and speaks about potential solutions in this regard.
Cognitive bias is a systemic deviation from rational judgment, i.e. a popular cause, which compels people to think and adopt decisions in an illogical way. At the same time, the practice revealed that in some cases cognitive ...

Memorandum

This memorandum will examine a scholarly article that discusses organizational change and managerial sense-making. The article critique will be presented in this memo by focusing on the thesis, methods, evidence of thesis support, contribution to literature, recommendation and implication.

Thesis

The strategic planners design change management programs, while the middle managers implement these initiatives by managing resistance and emotions of subordinates to ensure organizational transformation. The article, Organizational Change and Managerial Sense-making focuses on the critical aspect that managers must focus on ‘sense-giving’ to reduce skepticism and uncertainty among subordinates regarding the intent and dedication of their bosses about change management ...

Morton Grodzins, The American System as a Single Mechanism, 1966

THESIS
In the view of author, the US government is involved in complexity due to the involvement of all three layers of government in all the functions. The three layers are working or functioning with unclear or undistinguished roles. The division of authorities and responsibilities among all the tree levels is the main issue in the US system. In the author’s opinion, governments have to appropriately divide the authorities and responsibilities among all the three layers to avoid overlapping of functions.
The great number of governments does cover complication of activities. Distribution is not appropriately administrated ...

Instruction:

David Colander presents a journal known as eastern economic journal in 2016. A set of rules are important to organize the teaching of introductory economics. These rules offer an advantageous instructions and suggestions, which provide a platform for further discussions to unify. If a teacher follows all these efficient rules, then they make grading easier and students can remember all material related to the course. Many Economists argue that our way of teaching is not well and we are teaching the wrong directions as well. Every teacher should keep in mind that every principle is a tool not a ...

Leadership Theories
Leadership is a process that a group or an individual impacts a group of individuals to reach a certain or common goal (Parent et. al., n.d.). According to Parent et. al., (n.d.) the literature concerning leadership has transformed from the trait or behavioral approach to the transformational. This change also includes the transactional and charismatic leadership approaches (Parent et. al., n.d.).
According to Kouzes & Posner (2007), on the other hand, Leadership is a chance that can occur at any place or any time. It may happen in a huge or small house, the mall, the school, or in any group. This ...

Business Modeling

Abstract
The objective of business modeling is to collaborate specific goals for businesses and organizations and forming them as part of a whole of a business strategy. Businesses and organizations, particularly large ones with multitudes of divisions and departments, follow integrated practices, although separately, but work toward achieving the same results. The dynamics of business modeling is set to create a renowned value for an organization’s structure, infrastructure and policies. In theory and practice core values are what form an organization’s rationale such as social, economic, or cultural. Seemingly internal stakeholders are often oblivious to applications as long as ...

American Public University

Organization is a group of people who come together to achieve a set of goals. Each organization develops a structure to function to move towards the set goals for the organization. How the organization forms a structure determines flexibility and agility of the organization. In the volatile business world nowadays, any organization requires developing its agility and flexibility to position the organization against the volatility in the markets. The main factors are the people who feel belonging to the organization because they would like to take responsibility to reach the set goals.
The individuals in the organization would like ...

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Ruva, C., McEvoy, C. & Becker Bryant, J. (2007). Effects of Pre-Trial Publicity and Jury Deliberation on Juror Bias and Source Memory Errors Applied Cognitive Psychology 21, 45-67.
Is the decision of the jury as objective as it should be? In their article, titled “Effects of Pre-Trial Publicity and Jury Deliberation on Juror Bias and Source Memory Errors”, authors Ruva, Mc Evoy & Bryant, discuss the issue of jury impartiality by analyzing the degree to which the access to media information affect the decisions of the jury member and cause them to interpret the evidence either in favor or against the ...

Abstract

The ratification and finally, the implementation of the details and provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), or what is more popularly known as the Obamacare have been the topic of the hottest news and cause of public and private debates not just nationwide but also worldwide. The objective of this paper is to look at and review the PPACA in light of the important principles and concepts about public policy decision making presented by Lindblom in his highly influential work.

Obamacare and the Science of Muddling Through

Charles Lindblom authored one of the most influential articles related to policy making and public ...

Article summary

The article title is “Microeconomics: Factors of Consumer Decision-Making” by Marc Davis. The article focuses on the choices consumer make before deciding on buying a product or service. Most economists agree that price is the major factor that affects consumer’s decision-making process, but Davis argues that price might not be the only deciding factor. In addition, economics argue that all factors remaining constant, the price of a product is inversely proportional to its demand. Davis focused on the opportunity cost and elasticity as other factors that influence consumer choice and demand for goods or services. Price changes, and demand for a ...

Article Review

Abstract
This paper presents reviews of three articles, “Disentangling the Web” written by David Dunne and “Storytelling to Sales” and “The Right Content at the Right Time” published by King Fish Media. The first review focused on the significance Web 2.0 as it embodies the very foundations of marketing namely understanding customers and developing long term relationship with them. The second article review talks about the need to consider where the customers are in the buying decision making process in establishing the right content to accomplish the marketing objectives of the company. And the third review deals with ...

Impact of Informatics on Health Care in the Nursing Profession

Despite its numerous advantages, the adoption of information technology has lagged behind in the health care sector. In this paper, the various ways via which informatics have or will transform the health care sector will be discussed. Informatics will improve the safety and efficiency of health care in the nursing profession by increasing the accessibility of vital patient information to all stakeholders, increasing the use of evidence-based information, reducing the time spent on documentation, and fostering easy monitoring and evaluation of clinical, fiscal, and financial outcomes.
Although numerous studies have documented that the use of evidence-based information improves ...

Healthcare ethics is sometimes also referred to as medical ethics or bioethics and simply defined, is a set of moral principles, beliefs, and values that guide medical practitioners in making important choices about giving medical care. Four core principles that define ethical responsibilities and within which medical professionals must act in the United States are: Autonomy which demands that the professional honors the patients’ right to decide on their own about the medical care to be given, Beneficence which on the other hand tasks the practitioner with the duty to assist the patients to enhance their own good, Nonmaleficence ...

American Public University

In this paper, I will analyze the advantages of creating a business in the form of corporation and cost structures of companies. Companies develop some strategies to have the possible least cost of production and gain an advantage in competition. Preference for forming an organization is the first step. Corporation legal structure presents some advantages to companies. Also, companies need to have full knowledge of costs to be able to manage costs to maximize their profits. Eventually, this paper will give some insights about these subjects.
Corporation is a legal form of building an organization for a company. Operating ...

Summary

The article ‘Career Development Strivings’ by Dik, Sargent and Steger discusses what motivates individuals during the decision-making process in their career path. Career development strivings are influenced by five dimensions which include outcome expectations, self-efficacy, spiritual significance, sense of calling and materialism . Personal goals play a vital role in the functioning of individuals. The model is advantageous as it enables individuals to identify the different motives which drive them. The model is also advantageous since it is flexible, and therefore highly efficient . These strivings influence the path individuals are likely to use to achieve career development. The model does ...

In any conflict, argument or even debate it is standard practice to call for rational thinking and presentation of points. Irrationality is perceived as a negative attribute in a good negotiator. However, Robert Benjamin in his paper series, “Irrationality of Being Rational” argues that human beings are inherently irrational perhaps because of evolution, and therefore the expectation rationality is actually irrational. The purpose of this paper is to analyze and analyze the articles by Robert Benjamin where he explains his concept of the irrationality of being too rational.
It is common knowledge that human beings are never truly rational ...

Focus of the study and the research problem

The study focuses primarily on the fundamental objective of figuring out why certain organizations perform well while others fail in spite of operating under the same opportunities and challenges. The research intends to determine why a viable business venture may turn into failure and a how poorly performing company can reacquire success. Additionally, the study aims at realizing how a leading company can sturdily consolidate its current position to rule and direct the activities of the market setting to ascertain a substantial competitive benefit over others. This research seeks to provide a compacted structure for the comprehension of the ...

Article review.

Shoemaker, P.J.H., Krupp, S., Howland, S. “Strategic leadership the essential skills”. Harvard Business Review. 02-03 (2013): 1-5.Print.

Thesis statement

The article is dedicated to researching essential skills a strategic leader has to possess. While the scope of the notion ‘strategic leadership’ remains not sufficiently researched (Morill 2), the description of essential skills of a strategic leader can be used to address strategic leadership from conceptual standpoint. Relying on the findings of empirical research in several corporations, the authors of the article distinguish six skills, essential for a strategic leader. They include anticipating, challenging the status quo, interpreting data, deciding, aligning ...

Article Review: Gender Climate Change: A Feminist Criminological Perspective

Executive Summary
The article “Gendering Climate Change: A Feminist Criminological Perspective” by Wonders and Danner (2015) represents the study on the dialectical relationship that exists between socially constructed gender and climate change. Within their study, the scholars examine several issues to support their idea and explain logically the importance of the problem under consideration and the usefulness of feminist criminological perspective for analysis of climate change issues.
First of all, they provide the results of the review of the current criminological literature, stating that feminist perspective has been largely ignored in most criminology literature covering the issues of climate ...

Chapter 2 – Organization

Five Flavors of Alignment
Alignment for a company in its simplest terms will mean streamlining its present business and being operationally prepared for implementing any future changes in its products and services. Alignment generally feels like a huge and unachievable task. Author has simplified this process by differentiating between different types of alignments. He has divided the whole alignment process into five different parts or flavors as he calls it; Strategic, Infrastructure, Operational, Innovation, and People. I think the author has taken the right approach here. Differentiating between the flavors of alignment will help a company to properly understand ...

Introduction

Enterprises normally have many buyers purchasing their products such that they do not get a chance to know each of them personally. In such a case the business is required to pursue a rigorously tested study concerning consumer behavior. People are definitely different, but at some point their minds tend to react in the same way, and comprehending the aspects can assist the company to formulate strategies that will make customers accept their items or services. The creative measures should be ethical to conform to the universal values of the consumer base. This article articulates a critical review of ...

Economic transformation has led to tremendous change in the role, scale and meaning of major urban airports worldwide. The major gateway airports are attracting spatial concentrations of commercial activities, leading to transport induced growth (aerotropolis). In Australia, airports are becoming major business centers and are being leased off to private companies by the government. The airports are no longer public goods but profit oriented ventures. As a result of development of these airports by these private companies, complications arise which relate to land use, environmental impacts and implications, infrastructural transport and stakeholder relationship. The impacts of airports are a challenge to ...

Gass (2002), in his article ‘The First Linear-Programming Shoppe’, traces the early history of linear programming pertaining to the solution of linear equations, its interrelationship with computing, and its foundation within the federal government. This article focusses mainly on the first linear-programming shoppe, whose research contributions include the successful development, testing and verification of the simplex model. This article is significant given that the results obtained from operational research have greatly revolutionized decision-making, a managerial practice that cuts across all modern entities, including businesses and government operations. However, due to the exceedingly technical nature of its analysis, the article ...

Organizational structure has been widely used as a business strategy to cope in the current competitive world. In the past two years, Microsoft decided to transform their company by having four separate divisions, representing operating system, apps, cloud, devices instead of having competing divisions. Microsoft decided to transform their organization in order to make them compete successfully with their competitors in the technology industry such as Apple. This is in line with other technology companies that are trying to look more alike in their organizational structure to get thousands of their employees to collaborate more closely.
The organizational transformation ...

Richard B. Frank’s essay “Assessing Realities” is written to shed a light of perspective into the issue of what line of thinking went into the decision of Truman and his military advisor’s to use atomic weapons on Japanese cities at the end of World War II, and whether or not this was the ethical line of decision making for them to have made. As the author points out, American’s perceptions of the rightness of this decision has changed significantly since the time of the action, when far fewer Americans supporting this action decades after Hiroshima and Nagasaki ...

Psychology: Luxury Goods

Psychology: Luxury Goods

Executive Summary

Luxury products is a niche segment of marketing and is not focussed not pricing strategy alone. To effectively market these products, it is important to understand the psychology of today’s youth towards these products. The paper reviews the article “The behaviour of the young towards luxury products” written by Allérès in 1999, in the context of understanding consumer behaviour.
The review of the article establishes three points. First, the young people do aspire for luxury products. Second, the youth is familiar with luxury products and effortlessly recall names of the famous luxury brands. ...

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Introduction

The economy of the world is rapidly changing. When this is the case, an enterprise’s ability to change or adjust is essential if it is to be successful. In the increasingly competitive business world, continuous innovation plays a crucial role in dictating global competition and ensuring one acquires the extra factors of production necessary to maintain a sustainable economic growth path. The conviction among humans is that a high standard of living ought to be determined by a high rate o employment so as to guarantee maximized utilization of resources and ensure wide participation in the wealth of ...

Reflection Paper on ‘The Character Factory’

David Brooks’ article ‘The Character Factory’, talks about the conflicting assumptions that parents and governments make about children when it comes to decision making about their life outcomes. Brooks says that nearly every parent want their children to develop character to make it in life while the governments be it republican or democratic focus mainly on the economic aspects of the child development. He says that the democrats address the issue of material deprivation of the poor while the republicans adjust the economic incentives or regulatory barriers. Brooks quotes from Reeves’ article, ‘The New Politics of Character’ to further ...

Name_________________________________________________________ Date:___________

- What is the main point that you want someone to read this paper to understand?
I want to point out the brilliant capacity of decision making of Telemachus. His maturity is reflected through his decision making and his adaptability. That is what I want to highlight from Telemachus's character.
- Where did you focus particular efforts in this paper?
I focused on the deep study of each and every action and decision of Telemachus. I just want to focus on the immense maturity level of Telemachus while dealing each and every situation.
- What ...

Is It Time to Rethink You Pricing Strategy?

Abstract
The article under revision is taken from an academic journal MIT Sloan Management Review dated as of 2012 written by well known economists and businessmen Andreas Hinterhuber and Stephan Liozu who are also the authors of “Innovation in pricing” book. It is headed as “Is It Time to Rethink You Pricing Strategy?” and dwells on the issues of pricing and its role in the company's profitability. Economists know that pricing plays a substantial role and a strong impact on company's profitability indicators. Many companies nowadays use old pricing methods based on cost and competition. Businessmen mainly pay due attention to ...

Key take away points

The current peer-reviewed article on “Impact of online consumer reviews on sales and price strategies: a review and directions for future research” by Peter De Maeyer provides a broad perspective on the linkages between online reviews provided by the customer on the impact on commodity prices and sales. The article explores the diverse literature on this particular topic in marketing and provides a literary analysis of the same. The article strives to explore the impact of customer reviews on the decision making, policy and strategy formulation by the organizations. This article has considered the linkages between online customer reviews with those of ...

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The onset of the implementation of Electronic Health Records has had an effect on the professional and physical autonomy of highly trained professional physicians specifically in the healthcare organizations. Electronic Health Records trigger a certain take by HC professionals contributing to observable changes in Healthcare Organizations following a response from the HC professionals. Their response reflects the data collected from the physicians through interviews. The topic raises a controversy to whether the effects are more constraining due to the managers using the Electronic Health Records to exercise more control (McGimpsey, 2011). Some of the many positive effects that come with ...

NR305 Health Assessment

Alexis M. Schoolcraft
Chamberlain College of Nursing
Dr. T. Williams

Winter B 2014

Introduction
Patient’s history is undoubtedly one of the most important sources of medical information and, if conducted properly, may be quite useful. The article “A guide to take a patient’s history” written by Hilary Lloyd (a principal lecturer in nursing practice, development and research at City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, Sunderland) and Stephen Craig (a senior lecturer in nursing at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne) was published in the official UK medical journal Nursing Standard in 2007 and is a very descriptive and vivid source of information ...

ARTICLE SUMMARY

Researchers have established four core acts that help in the improvement of a team. The four core acts help to build blocks that are essential in the promotion of a healthy team behavior. Move is the first act of a successful teamwork. It directs the team to follow the right channel in enabling sustainability. It also sets a team in the right motion for the purpose of success. An example of this act occurs when a team member proposes the production of a product. The product that a member proposes might be the best option in the commerce market. This is often in terms of consumer ...

First, I understood that Antony Downs (1968) explains that bureaucracy is a pivotal element of the society in decision making. Instead of elected leaders making decisions, bureaucrats actually make the most decisions that affect the society. Antony Down (1968) also reasons that bureaucratic officials are, like all other sectors of the economy motivated by their own-self interest. In the end effective public administration policy, is a delicate balancing act that requires the understanding of people’s wishes as well as the needs of the citizens.
Second, I also became aware that it is important to be understood that there is ...

Introduction

Observing good ethics especially in public administration is essential in the modern society. Ethics inform individuals’ daily life decisions making providing them with standards for delineating between the right and wrong. Ethical societies promote coordination and transparency without deception. Ethics in public administration includes values such as loyalty, honesty, integrity, openness, fair-mindedness, respect and forthright communication. It involves defending, systematizing, and recommending notion of right and wrong behavior (Geuras & Garofalo, 2010). A successful public administration practitioner needs to make intelligent decisions on circumstances that present with ethical predicament. It is important to balance serving the best wellbeing for a client ...

“Want a Yogurt with that Venti Late? Starbucks and Danone to Join Forces” article, written by Stephanie Strom and published at http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/24/business/starbucks-and-danone-joining-forces-to-sell-yogurt.html?ref=global&_r=1& on July 23rd, 2013 discusses about an organizational strategy for increasing two companies’ visibility, market share and profits and this is the reason why I chose it, for elaborating on an organizational behavior concept.
This business strategy comes out of Starbucks’ need of diversifying its line – up of products and services and developing its food offering. With this organizational strategy, the company looks into the future, as it anticipates the market’s trends. The company’s profits ...

Jennifer’s situation is one that is faced by many people every day, in a wide variety of scenarios. Persuasion is a symbolic process that the communicators employ in order to try to change others attitudes or behaviours regarding an issue in an environment of free choice. The art of persuasion is a process that involves the interaction between the advertiser and the individual. The process of persuasion involves the employment of symbols laid out in a careful arrangement with a dedicated course in mind.
Persuasion cannot force a person to do something that they don’t want to do. This is an indication ...

Covert action refers to actions that a government or agency undertakes with the aim of influencing economic, political and military conditions abroad. Covert action is used as a tool of strategic decision-making because it ensures that the role of the government does not become apparent or publicly acknowledged. Covert action does not involve traditional counter-intelligence, military, diplomatic or law enforcement activities. Therefore, it plays a major role as a tool for strategic decision-making since its activities are not apparent or publicly acknowledged.
Conflicts do exist when an intelligence agency is the same that uses secret information to carry out executive decisions to ...

The article articulates the analysis of the budget proposal by President Obama concerning the increase of taxes for the airline industries. The airline industries disagree to this move stating that the passengers are already overtaxed. The recipients, on the other hand, agree to the taxes stating that the lack of changes has caused delays in the airline company. The congress passed a legislation that allows the “Federal Aviation Administration” to make independent cuts of its expenditure, unlike in the past. The congress points out that there has been wasteful spending in the aviation especially the Transportation Security Administration.
The ...

“If you can have everything in 57 varieties, making decisions becomes hard work”

These standing out words at the very outset of the article say it all about how intriguing yet a minute fact of modern life this article addresses, and from what angle. Starting with the crispy crispmaker example, the author explores the mechanism of psychological, economic, business, and social aspects, forces and tendencies in action, in defining how growing options distort practical human expectation, resulting in a never ending internal and external crisis that is demanding a rigorous fight back today.
The article is finely divided into four major thematic sections. The first section depicts, through factual data and reference, the evolution ...

According to the dictionary definition, marketing is commonly understood as a set of activities related to buying and selling products or services. The main objective of marketing activities is believed to be the promotion to potential buyers. Although this is surely true in the majority of cases, professor Kasturi "Kash" Rangan and his research associate Arthur McCaffrey go beyond this narrow definition and suggest that marketers may do not have to limit their activities to merely selling products, but they can strive for a bigger goal of improving the existence of people on the planet. In this cases marketing activities should ...

Communications

Dyer and Harvey (1995) have written about reaching an atmosphere of constructive controversy to replace pretend agreement. Teams are a waste of time when team members only pretend to agree. Decisions made under false pretenses are not good decisions. The Abilene Paradox is an example of how four family members, while trying to please each other, agreed to an activity even though none of them really wanted to participate. In an organization the self-defeating results of a pretended agreement are the opposite of the goals desired. “The inability to manage agreement is a major source of dysfunction” which affects not only the ...

Presented herein is an analysis of 2 Peer Reviewed Research Articles based on how researchers understand organizational leadership and worker traits and their ethical relevance to Information Technology. It gives the summary, the analysis, and the synthesis of the articles.

Article 1

Summary
This research article is based on the effective project team leadership theory as viewed from the angle of leader traits, skills, roles, and behaviors. The research examines leadership principles from the actual work settings of organizations, specifically the dynamic projects, with an aim of discovering the actual happenings as compared to the espoused theory. The research question ...

Integration of ABM and ABC in Dow Chemicals Limited

The Dow chemical, an international chemical company, applied activity based costing in order to enable the global business to report the contribution margins according to the geographical area, specific products and customers. The management believed that the system would assist in better decision making in the use and the deployment of its resources. In the traditional accounting system, the costs were assigned to areas such as sales and purchases. However the method was inappropriate as it resulted to fluctuating cash flows since the main focus of costs was on prime costs. It did not provide the manager with accurate ...