INF 2149 Administrative Decision Making in Information Organizations
2012 Winter Term
Instructor: Chun Wei ChooSite URL: http://uoft.me/cc
- Course Description
- Course Schedule and Lecture Slides
- Readings List
- Course Wiki: Case analysis worksheets; project sign up; group project pages
- Lecture Slides (PDFs in Course Schedule page)
- Assignment 1: Essay on Organizational Decision Making
- Assignment 2: Case Analysis and Presentation
- Course Map
The following figure represents the four main modes of organizational decision making that we will analyze in this course.
A selection of resources on decision making
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Decision Support and Business Intelligence Systems, Web-based resources accompanying the 2011 text (9th edition) by Efraim Turban, Ramesh Sharda, Dursun Delen.
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Decision Support Systems Resources Page, part of the ISWorld Net collection of resources.
- Rational Choice Theory. Organizational decision
making theory is based, to varying degrees, on rational
choice making as some kind of a benchmark. The assumptions of Rational Choice
Theory are enumerated here.
- How to make better choices, an article in the New Scientist (May 5, 2007) that reviews recent research in human decision making.
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Classic Decision Puzzlers
From Gretchen Chapman, a faculty member of the psychology department of Rutgers University, a collection of classic decision puzzles for fun and for edification.
- Society
for Judgment and Decision Making
An "interdisciplinary organization dedicated to the study of normative, descriptive, and prescriptive theories of decision." Contains a page pointing to related resources.
- Organizational
Behavior and Human Decision Processes Journal