Decision Making

In the TED lecture titled How to make hard choices, speaker Ruth Chang argues that making hard choices bring out the best in you. Chang describes hard choices as a set of alternatives which are comparable to each other when it comes to benefits. In short, none of the alternatives...

There exist hundreds of cultures, religions and ethnicities in the world. Though these may be very different from each other, every human being struggles to form and develop one's identity. This lasting process may be called struggle because a person can spend one's whole life creating an identity that will...

The environment we live in provides the necessary basic utilities we require in our life. Tree and water are the sources of livelihood to all human beings. Agriculture seems to be an independent practice, but indirectly it depends on the forests and water sources. Therefore, conserving water and forestry is...

This case study review analyzes the cases studies of The Case of the Diamond Ring Setting (Schermerhorn, N/A) which discusses the case of married women making the decision or not making the decision to wear their diamond rings and/or engagement rings during employment interviews. Another case study that is analyzed...

Decision-making is always termed as a cognitive process that results in a selection of a course of action or belief among many alternative possibilities (Anderson, Sweeney, Williams, Camm & Cochran, 2015). Decision-making is a study of choosing or identifying alternative based on the preferences or values of the decision maker....

Patients who require end-of-life care due to terminal illness require specialized and compassionate nursing care which is designed to improve pain management, provide support to families during this difficult period, and to make ethically responsible decisions (Hebert, Moore, & Rooney, 2011). From this perspective, it is necessary for nurses to...

The topic of boundary crossing and boundary violations is vividly discussed by scholars. In order to understand the difference between the terms, it is important to clearly conceptualize them. Boundaries are ‘the edge of appropriate (therapist) behavior adopted to the needs of the individual patient to create an atmosphere of...

For this discussion, a 32-year-old female patient will be discussed. She was admitted to the hospital at 39 weeks gestation based upon the determination made at her 18-week ultrasound. At the time of presentation, she was experiencing uterine contractions every four minutes with increasing intensity. The patient stated that her...

The described case study involves multiple legal, ethical, and financial implications for a hospital administrator. First and foremost, it involves critical ethical implications: the information about a nurse with HIV is received from a third-party source (besides, this source is in close informal relationships with the administrator). Second, just as...

The study “Trends in Attitudes About Marriage, Childbearing, and Sexual Behavior: United States, 2002, 2006-2010, and 2011-2013” (2016) conducted by Jim Daugherty and Casey Copen focuses on the changes in the attitudes of American men and women of reproductive age to the issues of marriage, divorce, childbearing, and sexual behavior...

Kris Osborn posted an article on Fox News examining the possible decision by the United States Military to use German-built armored combat vehicles in the future. Decision making is quite complicated from a military perspective as it is a sensitive area. However, it is similar to the decision making the...

Success in the corporate world requires firms to structure their internal operations into various units that provide a hierarchy through which decision making is facilitated. Some of the business units that improve organizational functions include task forces, committees, and councils. Task forces are among the most vital groups in an...

Indeed the New York State Homeland Security plan does well to identify the major factors in relation to security issues within the jurisdiction. The decision-making process involved in the development of the strategy involved various important factors. The plan was developed based on decisions that relate to the fact that...

The article “Asymptotic Confidence Interval for Conditional Probability at Decision Making” by Yu. S. Kan and V. R. Sobol is a statistics based paper in which the authors discuss the problems related to unilateral asymptotic confidence intervals for unknown conditional probabilities that are independent of the said distribution (Kan, Y....

Tesco PLC is one of the best known British multinational groceries. It is also a general merchandise retailer with its headquarter in Cheshunt, United Kingdom. It is also known to be the third largest retailer worldwide as measured by profits while second as measured by revenues. It has stores in...

Today, every organization or company's focus is to vacuum up data in a bid to make better and well-informed decisions inclined to product development, profitability, advertising, recruitment of employees, and productivity. It is not a surprise that the analysis of data has to a large extent outperformed human intuition in...

Ethical decision making in the healthcare setting is a derivation of the ICN Code of Ethics for Nurses (2012, p. 2) which states “The nurse’s primary professional responsibility if to people requiring nursing care.” It is the duty of any nurse to offer the best feasible options for the patient’s...

This case study centers on the plight of modern General Motors, while discussing, at length, the ways in which its management philosophies evolved over time. The study begins by noting that GM, throughout its history, has employed a largely de-centralized power structure. That is, the company has been vertically integrated,...

The proposed solution for PPI is that its leaders should continue the safety policies in spite of the criticism expressed by the lawyers. At present, the PPI’s ethical framework represents a harmonious combination of different ethical approaches such as teleological ethics and the ethics of care. From the standpoint of...

Establishing an effective decision-making style requires an evaluation of workplace dynamics and the types of personalities which are present within the team. For the colleague who was interviewed, she recognized that members of her team have voices that they would like to be heard and have valuable input that may...