40 results for "A Primer on Decision Making Book [Used]" between $2.00 and $150.00

Building on lecture notes from his acclaimed course at Stanford University, James March provides a brilliant introduction to decision making, a central human activity fundamental to individual, group, organizational, and societal life. March draws on research from all the disciplines of social and behavioral science to show decision making in its broadest context. By emphasizing how decisions are actually made - as opposed to how they should be made - he enables those involved in the process to...

Pages: 308, Paperback, Free Press

Pages: 251, Edition: 1, Paperback, CRC Press

This book is written for senior executives and corporate directors and is a primer on corporate governance - the system that defines the distribution of rights and responsibilities among different participants in the corporation, such as the board, managers, shareholders and other stakeholders, and spells out the rules and procedures for making decisions on corporate affairs. Corporate governance also deals with how a company's objectives are set, and the means of attaining those objectives and monitoring...

Used Very Good(1 Copy): Very Good 4to-over 9¾-12 tall. Binding is tight, light shelf wear to the bottom corners. Quite clean. '[This book] is a basic, step-by-step guide to the art and craft of contemporary film-making which covers all aspects of technical film production in 16 and 35 millimeters. Both a complete guide for the professional film-maker and a detailed introduction for the serious student of film, this brilliant new volume will serve as a standard reference and as a basic text. ' 54...

Accounting for Managers explains how accounting information is used by non-financial managers. The book emphasizes the interpretation, rather than the construction, of accounting information and encourages a critical, rather than unthinking acceptance, of the underlying assumptions behind accounting. It links theory with practical examples and case studies drawn from real life business situations in service, retail and manufacturing industries. Paul M. Collier applies a managerial approach to show...

0073403997 Used, in good condition. Book only. May have interior marginalia or previous owner's name.

Institutions of higher education are not like corporations: they have multiple goals, not even limited to the central ones of teaching and research, nor are they organized hierarchically. One class of leading inhabitants, faculty members, are a cross between independent contractors and employees; another class, administrators, are a cross between bosses and colleagues. Fitting Form to Function discusses how such institutions are best organized; how decisions are best made at various levels; how administrators...

Game theory is a key element in most decision making processes involving two or more people or organisations. This book explains how game theory can predict the outcome of complex decision making processes, and how it can help you to improve your own negotiation and decision making skills. It is grounded in well-established theory, yet the wide ranging international examples used to illustrate its application offer a fresh approach to what is becoming an essential weapon in the armoury of the informed...

Bill and Lee moved to the U.S. Virgin Islands in 1994 from Southern California, where Bill was an Aerospace Engineer with Hughes Aircraft Company. He saw that the education here left something to be desired, and loving math, wanted to teach it. He taught as a volunteer for six years in the local elementary school. Not liking the Government issued math books, he used his own notes, methods, quizzes and tests. He mainly taught fourth through sixth grades. Lee suggested that he write his own book using...

This concise, readable primer on the basic concepts of evidence-based medicine incorporates techniques on evaluating and searching the Emergency Medicine literature, applying those skills to clinical practice, and using those skills to prepare successfully for the new, annual Continuous Certification exams. Key points are highlighted in margin and case presentations are included to help illustrate EBM techniques in the clinical setting.

This work provides a guide to how economics can be used to manage scarcity of resources in health services. It outlines the principles of economics in a non-technical manner, before going on to address the issues of how to apply the principles in day to day health services management.

The Decision-Making Inventory Participant's Workbook is used in conjunction with the DMSI. The Decision-Making Inventory is a validated and reliable 20-item assessment that identifies your preferred decision-making style on a two dimensional scale—two structural styles—Systematic and Spontaneous, and two processing styles—Internal and External. The Systematic decision-maker prefers logical processes and seeks to analyze all parts in a problem. Spontaneous decision makers prefer thought-chaining and...

Analysis and Management of Animal Populations is an impressive synthesis of the myriad methods used to determine the status of wildlife populations. The goal of this important volume is to link management, evaluation, and conservation to modeling, estimation, and decision-making methods. Four major sections review these methods and applications in science-based conservation. Part I provides a methodological framework for quantifying and modeling field observations, with special emphasis on sampling...

Tough leadership decisions come in many different shapes and sizes--strategic direction, resourcing, priorities, communications, the management of staff. Christian faith does not protect us from hard decisions or allow us just to dump them on God. To the contrary, God gave us brains to reason with, emotions to help us understand, and an awareness of the needs of individuals. Leadership coach Peter Shaw addresses these issues and more in Deciding Well: A Christian Perspective on Making Decisions as...

1566766397 Used, in good condition. Book only. May have interior marginalia or previous owner's name.

Multistage Fuzzy Control a model-based approach to fuzzy control and decision making Fuzzy techniques are used to cope with imprecision in the control process. This authoritative book explains the essential principles of fuzzy logic and describes both the theoretical and practical advantages of the new model-based, prescriptive approach. Professor Kacprzyk offers a comprehensive and in depth examination of the issues underlying multistage control and decision analysis, addressing in particular fuzzy...