Wise Agents & Organisational Moral Learning

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iznan Tarip
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Strategic Change ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Moral Learning ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Functional Relevance ◽  
Learning Forward

The processes of strategic change, undertaken from time to time by organisations so as to maintain its functional relevance and effectiveness, are often conflict-ridden. This is in large part due to the nature of the human agency. Humans bring not only rationality into the decision-making processes, but also their inherent dispositions: intuitions, biases, emotions, and so on. In order to understand the factors that cause conflict in the processes of strategic change, this paper employs al-Ghazali’s concept of the ‘purification of the heart’, and ‘organisational moral learning’. An analytical framework is constructed using these two concepts to illustrate the interplay between contextual organisational configurations, the wider socio-environmental forces, and the human agents’ potentials and powers. This paper proposes some strategies that may help to drive ‘organisational moral learning’ forward, and conversely, hinder ‘organisational immoral learning’ from taking root. Ultimately, it is human agents –­ or rather, wise human agents – who are the critical factors for maintaining and/or transforming themselves and their surroundings.

scholarly journals Fair trade governance: revisiting a framework to analyse challenges and opportunities for sustainable development towards a green economy

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Cristina Ribeiro-Duthie ◽  
Fred Gale ◽  
Hannah Murphy-Gregory
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Fair Trade ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Ethical Consumption ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Decision Making Processes

AbstractAs a relatively new form of non-state governance, the fair trade movement presents an opportunity to promote sustainable production and consumption and hence social change. Global market demands and consumer engagement denote changes in social practices that have led governments to share decision-making processes with private sector and non-governmental organisations. In this context of change, it is important to consider not only whether new forms of governance weaken or strengthen states’ authority within the marketplace but also the extent to which they may allow for “green washing” instead of the green economy proposed by the United Nations Environmental Program. This study considers the fair trade of food production and consumption as a potential innovative model. In doing so it examines the existing general literature on governance, which highlights that decision-making processes tend to reproduce top-down approaches. While such practices may reproduce conventional hierarchies, it is worth questioning the potential of new forms of governance within global markets. This article builds on a sustainability governance analytical framework to deepen understandings of fair trade governance and its possible responses to the dilemmas of food production for ethical consumption and thus sustainable development in transnational relations. This research aims to contribute to the literature on improving compliance with global sustainability standards and through this, inform practices that allow for cooperation towards a green economy.

Exploring critical influencing factors for the site selection failure of waste-to-energy projects in China caused by the “not in my back yard” effect

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuhui Cong ◽  
Liang Wang ◽  
Li Ma ◽  
M. Skibnewski
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Influencing Factors ◽  
Site Selection ◽  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Waste To Energy ◽  
Fuzzy Decision Making ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Decision Making Processes

PurposeThis study aims to explore the critical influencing factors that lead to the site selection failure of waste-to-energy (WtE) projects in China under the influence of the “Not In My Back Yard” (NIMBY) effect, which can provide references to improve the decision-making process of similar projects in the future.Design/methodology/approachThe fuzzy decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) method was used to propose an analytical framework for exploring the critical influencing factors affecting the site selection failure of WtE projects. The causal relationship between different influencing factors is finally determined on the basis of the opinions of 12 experts from universities, government departments, consulting units, planning and design units, construction units and WtE enterprises.FindingsResults showed that six crucial factors resulted in the site selection failure of WtE projects from the NIMBY effect perspective: “Insufficient public participation,” “Near the place of residence,” “Nonstandard government decision-making processes,” “Low information disclosure,” “Destroys the surrounding environment,” and “Imperfect compensation scheme.”Originality/valueResults can determine the priorities and causal relationships among the various influencing factors. The decision-making optimization suggestions can provide reference for decision- makers, thereby possibly promoting the scientific and standardization of site selection decision process.

Functional Relevance and Online Instructional Design

2011 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Glenn E. Snelbecker ◽  
Susan M. Miller ◽  
Robert Z. Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Instructional Design ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Online Learners ◽  
Online Instructional Design ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Functional Relevance

Online instruction will more likely be effective if it fits with, and is perceived by, students as being functionally relevant for their education, work, or other personal contexts. Existing practice may emphasize an ad hoc approach to online design by being pragmatic and somewhat unsystematic. It is proposed that using a functional relevance perspective, as described in this chapter, is more likely to have designers and online learners attain a greater advantage in using the capacity of the Internet to support teaching and learning. This chapter introduces the concept of functional relevance and identifies some of the underlying theories. Discussions are made on how the concept of functional relevance can be used as a conceptual framework to identify and to drive decision-making processes that occur during the design and development of instruction.

Assessing Knowledge Management Systems Usage in Supporting Decision Making Processes in Organizations

2014 ◽  
pp. 326-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Abdelrahman ◽  
K. Nadia Papamichail ◽  
Simon French
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Knowledge Management Systems ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Support Decision Making

With the advent of the knowledge economy and the growing importance of knowledge societies, organizations are constantly seeking new ways of leveraging knowledge assets to support Decision Making (DM) processes. This chapter presents an initial insight to the little-researched phenomenon of how Knowledge Management Systems (KMSs) can support DM processes in organizations. A synthesis of ideas from a literature review suggests a new conceptual framework with several critical factors that organizations should take into account to assess the usage of KMSs tools in supporting DM processes in organizations. The proposed framework, “USUQ,” will benefit managers in both public and private sectors in knowing how the Usage, Satisfaction, Usefulness, and the Quality of using KMSs can support DM processes.

scholarly journals Human-related capabilities in big data analytics: a taxonomy of human factors with impact on firm performance

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philipp Korherr ◽  
Dominik Kanbach
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Data Analytics ◽  
Big Data Analytics ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Organizational Capability ◽  
First Order ◽  
Management Capability ◽  
Decision Making Processes

AbstractThis study intends to provide scholars and practitioners with an understanding of human resource challenges in the context of Big Data Analytics (BDA). This paper provides a holistic framework of human-related capabilities that organizations must consider when implementing BDA to facilitate decision-making. For this purpose, the authors conducted a systematic literature review adapted from Tranfield et al. (BJM 14:207–222, 2003) to identify relevant studies. The 75 publications reviewed provided the sample for an inductive, and systematic data evaluation following the well-known and accepted approach introduced by Gioia et al. (ORM 16:15–31, 2012). The comprehensive review uncovered 33 first-order concepts linked to human-related capabilities, which were distilled into 15 s-order themes and then merged into five aggregated dimensions: Personnel Capability, Management Capability, Organizational Capability, Culture and Governance Capability, and Strategy and Planning Capability. The study is, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, the first to categorize all relevant human-related capabilities for successful BDA application. As such, it not only provides the scientific basis for further research, but also serves as a useful overview of the critical factors for BDA use in decision-making processes.

scholarly journals Decision-making and health system strengthening: bringing time frames into perspective

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abelali Belghiti Alaoui ◽  
Vincent De Brouwere ◽  
Bruno Meessen ◽  
Maryam Bigdeli
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Health System ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Health System Strengthening ◽  
Health Staff ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Decision Making Processes

Abstract In many low-and middle-income countries, health systems decision-makers are facing a host of new challenges and competing priorities. They must not only plan and implement as they used to do but also deal with discontented citizens and health staff, be responsive and accountable. This contributes to create new political hazards susceptible to disrupt the whole execution of health plans. The starting point of this article is the observation by the first author of the limitations of the building-blocks framework to structure decision-making as for strengthening of the Moroccan health system. The management of a health system is affected by different temporalities, the recognition of which allows a more realistic analysis of the obstacles and successes of health system strengthening approaches. Inspired by practice and enriched thanks a consultation of the literature, our analytical framework revolves around five dynamics: the services dynamic, the programming dynamic, the political dynamic, the reform dynamic and the capacity-building dynamic. These five dynamics are differentiated by their temporalities, their profile, the role of their actors and the nature of their activities. The Moroccan experience suggests that it is possible to strengthen health systems by opening up the analysis of temporalities, which affects both decision-making processes and the dynamics of functioning of health systems.

Functional Relevance and Online Instructional Design

2011 ◽  
pp. 342-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn E. Snelbecker ◽  
Susan M. Miller ◽  
Robert Z. Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Instructional Design ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Online Learners ◽  
Online Instructional Design ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Functional Relevance

Online instruction will more likely be effective if it fits with, and is perceived by, students as being functionally relevant for their education, work, or other personal contexts. Existing practice may emphasize an ad hoc approach to online design by being pragmatic and somewhat unsystematic. It is proposed that using a functional relevance perspective, as described in this chapter, is more likely to have designers and online learners attain a greater advantage in using the capacity of the Internet to support teaching and learning. This chapter introduces the concept of functional relevance and identifies some of the underlying theories. Discussions are made on how the concept of functional relevance can be used as a conceptual framework to identify and to drive decision-making processes that occur during the design and development of instruction.

scholarly journals Live-in migrant care worker arrangements in Germany and the Netherlands: motivations and justifications in family decision-making

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent Horn ◽  
Cornelia Schweppe ◽  
Anita Böcker ◽  
María Bruquetas-Callejo
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Private Households ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Family Decision Making ◽  
Care Worker

Private households in ageing societies increasingly employ live-in migrant carers (LIMCs) to care for relatives in need of 24/7 care and supervision. Whilst LIMC arrangements are a common practice in Germany, they are only recently emerging in the Netherlands. Taking this development as a starting point, this study uses the countries’ different long-term care (LTC) regimes as the analytical framework to explore and compare the motivations and justifications of German and Dutch family carers who opt for an LIMC arrangment. Findings show that Dutch and German LTC regimes impact differently the decision-making processes of families, as well as on patterns of justification, through a combination of policies and social norms and their related expectations towards care and care work in old age.

scholarly journals A FRAMEWORK FOR TECHNOLOGY DRIVEN DESIGN: CRITICALITY AND COMFORT ZONE FOR EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 637-646
Author(s):  
P. Krus ◽  
L. Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Comfort Zone ◽  
Critical Technology ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Concepts Of Technology ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Early Phases ◽  
General Method

AbstractThis paper proposes an analytical framework for estimating the domain where a type of technology can be used in a system. In order to achieve this aim, we have elaborated on the concepts of technology critical, technology sensitive, and the technology comfort zone, to analytically assess the impact of a new technology in the early phases of system design. The result is a general method to indicate the range of requirements that can result in valid designs. This tool can assist in the decision-making processes for technology portfolio selection based on sustainable principles.

“The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness”: The Future of Human Rights Law in the Light of Algorithmic Authority

2018 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-90
Author(s):  
Helmut Philipp Aust
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
To Come

The increasing use of big data and machine learning algorithms raises several legal issues. Automated decision-making potentially undermines the very concept of human agency which is central to human rights law. Human agency enables a communication process between those bound by human rights and the rights-holders. To the extent that decision-making processes become fully automatic and autonomous, a form of algorithmic authority would arise. While human rights law is not silent with respect to such processes, doctrinal attempts to come to terms with this development are not very promising. Instead, a political process is required in order to establish a legal framework for the exercise of algorithmic authority.

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