Management methods and decision making
Mr Richard Gough
6 points * One 2-hour lecture and one 1-hour tutorial per week * Distance approximately 12 hours per week * First semester * Gippsland * Prerequisite: GBU1302
Objectives This subject seeks to provide an understanding of decision-making. A conceptual framework will be developed through analyses of specific decisions in organisations and exploration of personal decision-making styles. The subject aims also to foster a diversity of skills to be applied in the decision-making process.
Synopsis The firm and the nature decision making rational decision making, incremental decision , making and the nature of strategy making, the decision maker - the individual, organisational culture and decision making, the politics of decision making, group decision making, decision making and the environment, employee participation in decision making, qualitative decision making techniques.
Assessment Assignment one (2000 words): 20% * Assignment two (3000 words): 30% * Examination (3 hours): 50% * Students must obtain a satisfactory result in all areas of assessment.
Prescribed texts
Rowe A J and Boulgarides J D Managerial decision making Maxwell Macmillan, 1992
Harrison E F The manageral decision making Process Houghton Mifflin, 1987.