MGG2321

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: MGG1303

Objectives This subject seeks to provide an understanding of decision making. A conceptual framework will be developed through the analysis 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 organisation and the nature of decision making: rational and non-rational 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 (1500 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, 1995
Rowe A J and Boulgarides J D Managerial decision making Maxwell Macmillan, 1994