Predicting real-time adaptive performance in a dynamic decision-making context

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 715-732 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darren Good
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Computer Game ◽  
Dynamic Decision Making ◽  
Adaptive Performance ◽  
Time Dynamic ◽  
Individual Capacity ◽  
Cognitive Agility ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Networked Fire Chief

AbstractIndividuals in organizations must frequently enact a series of ongoing decisions in real-time dynamic contexts. Despite the increasing need for individuals to manage dynamic decision-making demands, we still understand little about individual differences impacting performance in these environments. This paper proposes a new construct applicable to adaptation in such real-time dynamic environments. Cognitive agility is a formative construct measuring the individual capacity to exhibit cognitive flexibility, cognitive openness and focused attention. This study predicts that cognitive agility will impact adaptive performance in a real-time dynamic decision-making microworld computer game called the Networked Fire Chief; a simulation developed to study and train Australian fire fighters. Cognitive agility, operationalized through three distinct methods (performance measures, self-reports and external-rater reports), explained unique variance beyond measures of general intelligence on the total score of adaptive performance in the microworld.

scholarly journals Decision-Making in a Real-Time Business Simulation Game: Cultural and Demographic Aspects in Small Group Dynamics

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (03) ◽  
pp. 779-815 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Bragge ◽  
Henrik Kallio ◽  
Tomi Seppälä ◽  
Timo Lainema ◽  
Pekka Malo
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Group Size ◽  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Small Groups ◽  
Operations Management ◽  
Group Performance ◽  
Dynamic Decision Making ◽  
Simulation Game ◽  
Business Simulation

Simulated virtual realities offer a promising but currently underutilized source of data in studying cultural and demographic aspects of dynamic decision-making (DDM) in small groups. This study focuses on one simulated reality, a clock-driven business simulation game, which is used to teach operations management. The purpose of our study is to analyze the characteristics of the decision-making groups, such as cultural orientation, education, gender and group size, and their relationship to group performance in a real-time processed simulation game. Our study examines decision-making in small groups of two or three employees from a global manufacturing and service operations company. We aim at shedding new light on how such groups with diverse background profiles perform as decision-making units. Our results reveal that the profile of the decision-making group influences the outcome of decision-making, the final business result of the simulation game. In particular, the cultural and gender diversity, as well as group size seem to have intertwined effects on team performance.

scholarly journals MANAGEMENT OF PROFESSIONAL ADAPTATION OF TEACHERS IN THE SYSTEM OF SECONDARY EDUCATION

2021 ◽  
pp. 165-169
Author(s):  
I. PROTSENKO
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Secondary Education ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Dynamic Decision Making ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
General Management ◽  
Learning Development ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Favorable Conditions

The article, based on the analysis of scientific and pedagogical literature, substantiates the basic pedagogical conditions of professional adaptation of teachers in the reform and modernization of secondary school and in the process of their lifelong learning, development of a national management system for professional adaptation of teachers. new conditions for the functioning of the educational sector. It is established that the teacher's advancement to mastery is an endless cycle in which each step is performed in accordance with the general management technology - setting goals for adaptation management is to accelerate the achievement of productivity, value for money, skill, readiness for innovation, satisfaction; positively includes the individual in the system of interpersonal relations, planning - a system of pre-determined decisions, the essence of which allows to coordinate individual efforts of employees to achieve goals, predict measures to improve professional adaptation, establish the desired end results in terms of employee adaptation goals by the adapter (formation of values, introduction to the course of the case, setting tasks in time)., decision-making - dynamic decision-making on the adaptive load. The components of decision-making include - identifying opinions, analyzing the situation, evaluating decisions and situations, generating ideas, organization and implementation - includes building work to effectively and optimally achieve the goal of professional adaptation of teachers, control - a function manifested in effective professional conditions adaptation in the need to ensure the advancement of goals. It is revealed that the problem of ensuring the effectiveness of management of educational institutions requires the need, simultaneously with the achievement of the main goals of organizations, to create favorable conditions for professional development and development of the teacher's personality. One of the most important steps in the professional development of a teacher's personality is the stage of professional adaptation. The main functions of management of professional adaptation of teachers in the system of secondary education are clarified. A model for managing this process has been developed.

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