Choice Over Uncertainty And Ambiguity In Technical Problem Solving Classic Reprint

Author : Stephan Schrader
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
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Release : 2015-08-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1332254888

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Choice Over Uncertainty and Ambiguity in Technical Problem Solving (Classic Reprint) by Stephan Schrader Pdf

Excerpt from Choice Over Uncertainty and Ambiguity in Technical Problem Solving Technical problems are solved under uncertainty and ambiguity. Most empirical research in technical problem solving has two characteristics in common: no differentiation between uncertainty and ambiguity is made, and the degree of uncertainty or ambiguity is considered exogenous to the problem-solving process. This paper argues, first, that uncertainty and ambiguity are dissimilar concepts, thereby following ideas proposed by the recent literature. Problem solving under ambiguity involves fundamentally different tasks than problem solving under uncertainty. Consequently, different organizational structures are appropriate and different types of resources needed. Second, it is argued that levels of uncertainty and ambiguity are not exogenously given but rather are determined in the problem-framing process. In this process, problem solvers select explicitly or implicitly specific levels of uncertainty and ambiguity. This choice is contingent on context characteristics such as prior problem-solving experiences, organizational context, and available resources. It is proposed that the efficiency of the problem-solving process and the outcome of the process depends on the fit between the levels of uncertainty and ambiguity chosen and the context characteristics. Implications of the proposed framework for research on communication gatekeepers and on the role of top managers in technical change are discussed. Keywords: Problem solving, problem framing, technology management, uncertainty, ambiguity Introduction Research on problem solving, especially on technical problem solving, has addressed the effects of ambiguity and/or uncertainty on the problem-solving process (Marples 1961; Sutherland 1977), the interplay between uncertainty/ambiguity and organization structure (Marquis and Straight 1965; Lawrence and Lorsch 1969; Larson and Gobeli 1988), and the need for different communication channels under different uncertainty/ambiguity conditions (Tushman 1978; Tushman and Nadler 1980; Allen 1984). Most empirical work on technical problem solving has two characteristics in common. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Arthur L. Wilson,Elisabeth Hayes
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 765 pages
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Release : 2009-04-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780470545980

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Handbook of Adult and Continuing Education by Arthur L. Wilson,Elisabeth Hayes Pdf

Sponsored by the American Association of Adult & Continuing Education"This monumental work is a testimony to the science of adult education and the skills of Wilson and Hayes. It is a veritable feast for nourishing our understanding of the current field of adult education. The editors and their well-chosen colleagues consistently question how we know and upon what grounds we act. They invite us to consider not only how we can design effective adult education, but also why we practice in a particular socio-economic context." --Jane Vella, author of Taking Learning to Task and Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach "This new handbook captures the exciting intellectual and professional development of our field in the last decade. It is an indispensable resource for faculty, students, and professionals." --Jack Mezirow, emeritus professor, Adult and Continuing Education, Teachers College, Columbia University For nearly seventy years, the handbooks of adult and continuing education have been definitive references on the best practices, programs, and institutions in the field. In this new edition, over sixty leading authorities share their diverse perspectives in a single volume--exploring a wealth of topics, including: learning from experience, adult learning for self-development, race and culture in adult learning, technology and distance learning, learning in the workplace, adult education for community action and development, and much more. Much more than a catalogue of theory and historical facts, this handbook strongly reflects the values of adult educators and instructors who are dedicated to promoting social and educational opportunity for learners and to sustaining fair and ethical practices.

Author : Gerald (Jerry) R. Ledlow,M. Nicholas Coppola
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Page : 431 pages
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Release : 2010-10-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781449654078

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Leadership for Health Professionals by Gerald (Jerry) R. Ledlow,M. Nicholas Coppola Pdf

Leadership for Health Professionals: Theory, Skills, and Applications concentrates on leadership as a subject of study and enables students to apply and practice the theories, models, and responsibilities of leadership within a health organization context. This thorough, well-organized text includes practical cases from leaders in various health professions, presenting leadership principles with an emphasis on enabling and empowering students and professionals to become better leaders in practice, develop an efficacious personal leadership model, and improve health outcomes through better leadership. Leadership for Health Professionals: Theory, Skills, and Applications provides students with the fundamentals of leadership theory and bridges the gap between theory and practice with an emphasis on practical application. With exercises and discussion questions to reinforce key concepts and create critical thinking opportunities, Leadership for Health Professionals combines theoretical foundations with practical applications and is the ideal text to prepare students and professionals for leadership opportunities. Instructor Resources Include: Instructor's Manual, TestBank, Exercises, PowerPoint Slides and Exercises

Author : Danny Samson,Richard L Daft,Timothy Donnet
Publisher : Cengage AU
Page : 760 pages
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Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780170388443

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Fundamentals of Management with Online Study Tools 12 Months by Danny Samson,Richard L Daft,Timothy Donnet Pdf

Samson/Daft/ Donnet's Fundamentals of Management is a robust foundation text providing a balance of broad, theoretical content with accessible language for students. This sixth edition features a new author on the team and contains updates to content based on recent research. Along with current management theory and practice, the text integrates coverage of innovation, entrepreneurship, agile workplaces, social media and new technology throughout. The book is rich with experiential exercises, self-assessment activities, challenges and cases for students to engage with, developing multiple skills. Examples within the text are both local and global, with a new focus on a 'skills approach', and each part of the text concludes with a contemporary continuing case study, focussing on car company, Toyota, as it faces managerial challenges and opportunities in the region The text covers the four key management functions: Planning, Organising, Leading, and Controlling, conveying to students the elements of a manager's working day.

Author : K. K. Dompere,Kofi Kissi Dompere
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 311 pages
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Release : 2009-03-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540880868

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Fuzziness and Approximate Reasoning by K. K. Dompere,Kofi Kissi Dompere Pdf

This monograph is special in its orientation and contribution to current state of our understanding of decision-choice process and knowledge production. Its special orientation is to bring to the scientific community the discussions on the epistemic structure of the relationships among uncertainty, expectations, risk, possibility, probability and how the rules of fuzzy paradigm and the methods of fuzzy rationality bring new and different understanding to the relationships. At the level of theory of knowledge, it presents the structure and epistemic analysis of uncertainty, expectations and risk in decision-choice actions through the characteristics of substitution-transformation and input-output processes in categorial dynamics of actual-potential duality. The interactive effects of rationality and expectation are examined around belief, prospect, time and conditions of belief justification where the relationship between possibility and probability as a sequential link between potential and actual is analyzed to provide some understanding of the role of relative costs and benefits in defining risk in both nature and society. The concepts of possibilistic and probabilistic beliefs are explicated in relation to rationality and the decision-choice process where the analytical relationship between uncertainty and expectation formation is presented leading to the introduction of two types of uncertainty composed of fuzzy uncertainty and stochastic uncertainty.

Author : Anna Krzeminska
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 215 pages
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Release : 2008-11-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783834999245

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Determinants and Management of Make-and-Buy by Anna Krzeminska Pdf

Anna Krzeminska develops an extension to the TCE framework which spotlights uncertainty as a main explanatory variable. This approach not only enables an explanation of determinants, management mechanisms, and performance implications of different make-and-buy types but also contributes to a better understanding of the categorization of economic institutions.

Author : Scott C. Bauer,S. David Brazer
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 337 pages
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Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781412974059

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Using Research to Lead School Improvement by Scott C. Bauer,S. David Brazer Pdf

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Author : Sampat Mukherjee
Publisher : New Age International
Page : 296 pages
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Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8122416446

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Organisation & Management And Business Communication by Sampat Mukherjee Pdf

This Book Is A Sincere Attempt To Explain The Operating Functions Of Management And Tools Of Communications In A Simple And Lucid Language. The Primary Object Of Writing This Book Is To Meet The Requirements Of C.A. (Professional Examination-One) Students. However, This Book Will Also Be Very Useful For The Students Doing B.Com., M.Com., Mba And Other Professional Courses. Even A Layman Who Is Interested In Knowing Basics Of Management Principles And Communication Skill Will Find This Book Extremely Useful.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cengage AU
Page : 128 pages
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Release : 2024-06-09
Category : Electronic
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Author : Susanne Lindgren Wofford
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 496 pages
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Release : 1992-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804780803

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The Choice of Achilles by Susanne Lindgren Wofford Pdf

This book examines the ways that Classical and Renaissance epic poems often work against their expressed moral and political values. It combines a formal and tropological analysis that stresses difference and disjunction with a political analysis of the epic's figurative economy. It offers an interpretation of three epic poems - Homer's Iliad, Virgil's Aeneid, and Spencer's Faerie Queene - that focuses on the way these texts make apparent the aesthetic, moral, and political difference that constitutes them, and sketches, in conclusion, two alternative resolutions of such division in Milton's Paradise Lost and Cervantes' Don Quixote, an 'epic' in prose. The book outlines a theory of how and why epic narrative may be said to subvert certain of its constitutive claims while articulating a cultural argument of which it becomes the contradictory paradigm. The author focuses on the aesthetic and ideological work accomplished by poetic figure in these narratives, and understands ideology as a figurative, substitutive system that resembles and uses the system of tropes. She defines the ideological function of tropes in narrative and the often contradictory way in which narratives acknowledge and seek to efface the transformative functions of ideology. Beginning with what it describes as a dual tendency within the epic simile (toward metaphor in the transformations of ideology; toward metonymy as it maintains a structure of difference), the book defines the politics of the simile in epic narrative and identifies metalepsis as the defining trope of ideology. It demonstrates the political and poetic costs of the structural reliance of allegorical narrative on catachresis and shows how the narrator's use of prosopopoeia to assert political authority reshapes the figurative economy of the epic. The book is particularly innovative in being the first to apply to the epic the set of questions posed by the linking of the theory of rhetoric and the theory of ideology. It argues that historical pressures on a text are often best seen as a dialectic in which ideology shapes poetic process while poetry counters, resists, figures, or generates the tropes of ideology itself.

Author : Charles Conrad,Marshall Scott Poole
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781118179697

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Strategic Organizational Communication by Charles Conrad,Marshall Scott Poole Pdf

Surveying a wide variety of disciplines, this fully-revised 7th edition offers a sophisticated and engaging treatment of the rapidly expanding field of organizational communication Places organizations and organizational communication within a broader social, economic, and cultural context Applies a global perspective throughout, including thoughtful consideration of non-Western forms of leadership, as well as global economic contexts Offers a level of sophistication and integration of ideas from a variety of disciplines that makes this treatment definitive Updated in the seventh edition: Coverage of recent events and their ethical dimensions, including the bank crisis and bailouts in the US and UK Offers a nuanced, in-depth discussion of technology, and a new chapter on organizational change Includes new and revised case studies for a fresh view on perennial topics, incorporating a global focus throughout Online Instructors' Manual, including sample syllabi, tips for using the case studies, test questions, and supplemental case studies

Author : Mark Dodgson,David M. Gann,Ammon Salter
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191622625

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The Management of Technological Innovation by Mark Dodgson,David M. Gann,Ammon Salter Pdf

The management of technological innovation (MTI) is one of the most important challenges facing businesses today. Innovation has become the fundamental driver of competitiveness for firms of all sizes in virtually all business sectors and nations. The first edition of this book has become one of the most popular texts for students of innovation and technology management. This new edition sees David Gann and Ammon Salter join Mark Dodgson as authors, drawing on their combined experience of 60 years of researching and teaching MTI. It combines the most relevant theoretical analysis with contemporary and historical empirical evidence to provide a comprehensive, yet concise and readable, guide to the challenges of MTI. By explaining the innovation process the book reveals the broad scope of MTI and its importance for company survival, growth and sustainability. It describes how MTI has to be managed strategically and how this is successfully achieved by formulating and implementing strategy and delivering value. Chapters provide frameworks, tools and techniques, and case studies on managing: innovation strategy, communities, and networks, R&D, design and new product and service development, operations and production, and commercialization. Based on robust analysis, the book provides a wide range of empirical evidence from a huge diversity of case studies, with around fifty case studies newly written for this edition. It analyses MTI in all parts of the world, in companies large and small, and in services, manufacturing, and resource-based business sectors. This new edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect the latest teaching and research, and to ensure its continuing relevance to the contemporary world of MTI. It will be an important resource for academics, students, and managers throughout the world, is a recommended text for students of innovation and technology management at postgraduate and undergraduate level, and is particularly valuable for MBA courses.

Author : Efe A. Ok
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400840892

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Real Analysis with Economic Applications by Efe A. Ok Pdf

There are many mathematics textbooks on real analysis, but they focus on topics not readily helpful for studying economic theory or they are inaccessible to most graduate students of economics. Real Analysis with Economic Applications aims to fill this gap by providing an ideal textbook and reference on real analysis tailored specifically to the concerns of such students. The emphasis throughout is on topics directly relevant to economic theory. In addition to addressing the usual topics of real analysis, this book discusses the elements of order theory, convex analysis, optimization, correspondences, linear and nonlinear functional analysis, fixed-point theory, dynamic programming, and calculus of variations. Efe Ok complements the mathematical development with applications that provide concise introductions to various topics from economic theory, including individual decision theory and games, welfare economics, information theory, general equilibrium and finance, and intertemporal economics. Moreover, apart from direct applications to economic theory, his book includes numerous fixed point theorems and applications to functional equations and optimization theory. The book is rigorous, but accessible to those who are relatively new to the ways of real analysis. The formal exposition is accompanied by discussions that describe the basic ideas in relatively heuristic terms, and by more than 1,000 exercises of varying difficulty. This book will be an indispensable resource in courses on mathematics for economists and as a reference for graduate students working on economic theory.

Author : Robert F. Durant
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191628337

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The Oxford Handbook of American Bureaucracy by Robert F. Durant Pdf

One of the major dilemmas facing the administrative state in the United States today is discerning how best to harness for public purposes the dynamism of markets, the passion and commitment of nonprofit and volunteer organizations, and the public-interest-oriented expertise of the career civil service. Researchers across a variety of disciplines, fields, and subfields have independently investigated aspects of the formidable challenges, choices, and opportunities this dilemma poses for governance, democratic constitutionalism, and theory building. This literature is vast, affords multiple and conflicting perspectives, is methodologically diverse, and is fragmented. The Oxford Handbook of American Bureaucracy affords readers an uncommon overview and integration of this eclectic body of knowledge as adduced by many of its most respected researchers. Each of the chapters identifies major issues and trends, critically takes stock of the state of knowledge, and ponders where future research is most promising. Unprecedented in scope, methodological diversity, scholarly viewpoint, and substantive integration, this volume is invaluable for assessing where the study of American bureaucracy stands at the end of the first decade of the 21st century, and where leading scholars think it should go in the future. The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics are a set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of scholarship on American politics. Each volume focuses on a particular aspect of the field. The project is under the General Editorship of George C. Edwards III, and distinguished specialists in their respective fields edit each volume. The Handbooks aim not just to report on the discipline, but also to shape it as scholars critically assess the scholarship on a topic and propose directions in which it needs to move. The series is an indispensable reference for anyone working in American politics. General Editor for The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics: George C. Edwards III

Author : P. K. Kapur,A. K. Verma
Publisher : Alpha Science Int'l Ltd.
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8173195722

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Quality, Reliability and Information Technology by P. K. Kapur,A. K. Verma Pdf

Reliability Engineering and Quality Management provides a competitive advantage and market leadership in a global environment where market barriers are fast disappearing both in the domain of cutting edge and contemporary technologies, manufacturing, process and service sectors like information technology sector. The growth of Q & R has been fuelled by increasing sophistication and complexity of system and organisational awareness to produce and market high quality and reliability products and services by the consumer and global market pressures. This subject being interdisciplinary in nature has also brought about a convergence of numerous solution strategies employing Fuzzy Sets, Artificial Neural Nets, Modeling and Simulation, Knowledge Base Systems, Operations Research and Mathematical Programming to achieve high Reliability. This book is intended for both the beginner and practitioner from manufacturing and service sector, research laboratories and academic institutions. This book is unique also as it gives an insight into the current practices and future directions.