Management decision making Books

Most organizations are hierarchical, social, political, competitive, and…frustrating! Get a running head start on the competition and learn what it takes to succeed in this environment. Many young people enter social, business, non-profit, or other...

This collection reflects the very latest research in neuroscience, psychology and the economics of decision-making.

The issues of developing country debt crises, increased volatility and risk, and the determination of market liquidity are high on the agendas of policy makers, market participants and researchers in the area of financial markets. These issues are also...

Lean Process Creation teaches the specific frames-the 6CON model-to look through to properly design any new process while optimizing the value-creating resources. The framing is applicable to create any process that involves people, technology, or...

Charge up your startup leadership journey with 'The SAUS Principles'.  This is your go-to resource for scaling up your business successfully while leveling up your skills, whether you're a startup novice or a seasoned pro, with these principles...

AVOID TEAM MALPRACTICEAbout this BookLeaders Don't Solve Problems is NOT a do-it-yourself, how-to book on leadership development. It's a book for successful owners who instinctively know that they and their companies could achieve more if only their...

Welcome to a comprehensive guide to success in the modern world. This must-have book equips managers, students, and teachers alike with essential knowledge and skills to excel in the dynamic realm of business and leadership. With a focus on continuous...

Die Spielerleihe ist eine echte Alternative zum endgültigen Transfer. Die verbandsrechtlichen Vorschriften, welche die Spielerüberlassung reglementieren, und die von der FIFA geplanten Beschränkungen von Leihgeschäften sind mit höherrangigem Recht...

Discover the transformative potential of AI for data-driven decision-making and fast-track your organization's growth journey with trusted AI implementationKey Features:- Gain comprehensive insights and analyses to make quick and accurate decisions-...

Business industries depend on advanced models and tools that provide an optimal and objective decision-making process, ultimately guaranteeing improved competitiveness, reducing risk, and eliminating uncertainty. Thanks in part to the digital era of the...

Advances in GIS technologies have provided a more robust framework for planners and designers. These frameworks offer greater control and monitoring, which can lead to greater accuracy in policymaking and urban planning. Utilizing Decision Support...

EVERY CUSTOMER IS UNIQUEFor many companies, large and small, customer data is a noisy mess. There are problems across the ecosystem from partners to page views and from KPIs to campaign tracking. The biggest problem is not the technical data silos but...

The purpose of The Ethical Professor is to provide a road map to some of the ethical dilemmas that doctoral students and newer faculty members are likely to face as they enter a career in academia (the Academy). Academic career paths appear to be quite...

Stimulating and developing the creative potential of all members of an organisation is widely seen as contributing to performance and results. This prestigious textbook provides a complete overview of the creative problem-solving process and its...

Myriad crises can affect your business-from natural disasters to human-caused ones, like product sabotage, lawsuits, a pandemic or other health crisis, or terrorism. Your business' survival and successful recovery depends on your continuity plan.Changes...

Imagine what our lives would look like if we reframed the way we approach its significant stages with a more creative enhancing mindset.Creativity is the most important asset we have to negotiate through this rapidly changing world. From the way we...

Troubled economic times are putting an extraordinary pressure on corporate managers, who have to make investment decisions under unprecedented uncertainty and risk.The aim of this book is to help managers to reflect upon the critical assumptions...

Want to get better in business? Learn how to draw.There’s no faster, cheaper prototype in the world than a sketch on a sheet of paper. What’s unclear in words is suddenly crystal clear in a sketch, and you—and your team—can tackle...

Managers in organisations must make rational decisions. Rational decision making is the opposite of intuitive decision making. It is a strict procedure utilising objective knowledge and logic. It involves identifying the problem to solve, gathering...

Artificial intelligence has deeply impacted our understanding of creativity and the human ability to generate creative outputs. New applications for creative tasks are rapidly evolving, and new tools are constantly being developed with much greater...

A university is an epicentre of ideas, a concept factory, the rightful birthplace of innovations and products that make the world a better place in which to live. It is a think-tank for the betterment of society and social enrichment. Yet universities...

Experience is currently a hot theme in decision making. For a long time, decision research was almost exclusively focused on new decisions and neglected the importance of experience. It took the field until the 1990s for a new direction in research and...

Game Theory and Exercises introduces the main concepts of game theory, along with interactive exercises to aid readers' learning and understanding. Game theory is used to help players understand decision-making, risk-taking and strategy and the impact...

This book challenges the practice or organizational change programmes. It uses two case studies in depth to illustrate that consulting companies can often get it wrong. Senior managers often do not know enough about managing change. The text is arranged...

Risk science is becoming increasingly important as businesses, policymakers and public sector leaders are tasked with decision-making and investment using varying levels of knowledge and information. Risk Science: An Introduction explores the...

This book will sharpen core decision-making skills of budding managers and entrepreneurs by using the concepts, logic, and principles of microeconomics with suitable examples and cases from multiple industries based across the world.

Current debates about experts are often polarized and based on mistaken assumptions, with expertise either defended or denigrated. Making Sense of Expertise instead proposes a conceptual framework for the study of expertise in order to facilitate a more...

The Man Who Defuses Bombs is an expert's guide on how to avoid disputes and escalations by understanding and adopting best practice, so that problem situations in your technology projects don't turn into commercial disasters. And in the event that it's...

The Routledge International Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning is an authoritative reference work providing a balanced overview of current scholarship spanning the full breadth of the rapidly developing and expanding field of thinking and reasoning. It...

The book develops both direct and indirect measures of Chief Financial Officers' (CFOs) attitudes towards risk. This study firstly provides theoretical issues on financial management and the results of previous research, while the second part is...

This book presents a comprehensive view of the different theories of risk management in water, drawing on recent studies that serve to inform the way that practitioners consider their own risk practice.

This book gives trainers--who could be HR managers, operating managers, or Learning and Development professionals--guidelines that can be used in virtual settings to meet the needs of these times.

The construction industry is currently experiencing accelerating developments concerning societal demands along with project complexity, internationalization and digitalization. In an attempt to grasp the consequences of these demands on productivity and...

This concise textbook provides a comprehensive and clear overview of the theory and practice of creative problem solving from a management perspective.The book works step by step through the creative thinking process. Beginning with theoretical...

“I love this clear, simple but deeply empowering and inspirational new book that opens our eyes and our hearts to seeing who we each, truly are. Using how we make choices, Andrea provides us with a unique model to significantly understand ourselves...

You may be a company director, or a business executive. You may be a company owner, or you may be thinking about setting up your first company. You may be a parent making decisions about your child's future. You may be a student studying towards your...

Directors are key decision-makers in any organisation, whether it is in the public sector, a family business or a transnational company. The UK Companies Act 2006 codified directors' duties for the first time and describes the director as the 'most...

As organizations have grown in scale and scope of activities, so have social pressures on every aspect of organizational activity from personnel policies to waste disposal practices. This volume is a rare example of a multidisciplinary approach to an...

Practical And Economical Cookery: With A Series Of Bills Of Fare is a cookbook written by Ann Smith in 1858. The book is a comprehensive guide to cooking and contains recipes for a wide variety of dishes. The author emphasizes the importance of...

When budgets are dwindling, deadlines passing, and tempers flaring, who gets the blame? Project specialist Todd Williams offers a solution to ensure it isn't the project managers--or anyone, for that matter. Discover his trusted process for resuscitating...

From starting her first business at age eighteen in Rhodesia, to creating high-performing teams and revitalising organisations across four continents, Marilyn has survived many pitfalls and crushing blows, only to get back up and give it her all once...