Management methods and decision making
Mr Peter Townsend
6 points
* One 2-hour lecture and one 1-hour tutorial per week
*
Distance: approximately 12 hours per week
* First semester
* Gippsland
* Prerequisite: GBU2304
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 of 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 and 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
Harrison E F The managerial decision making process Houghton Mifflin, 1987
Rowe A J and Boulgarides J D Managerial decision making Maxwell Macmillan, 1992
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