Reframing the Decision-Makers’ Dilemma: Towards a Social Context Model of Creative Idea Recognition

2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Mueller ◽  
Shimul Melwani ◽  
Jeffrey Loewenstein ◽  
Jennifer J. Deal
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Context Model ◽  
Creative Idea

Strategies for Restoring River Ecosystems: Sources of Variability and Uncertainty in Natural and Managed Systems

2003 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Adaptive Management ◽  
Decision Problem ◽  
Decision Processes ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Bayesian Decision ◽  
Watershed Restoration ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Concerns

<em>Abstract</em>.—Decisions about watershed restoration projects often are complicated by competing interests and goals, gaps in scientific knowledge, and constraints on time and resources. Under these circumstances, there is no best approach to decision making and problem solving. Appropriate decision processes need not always be analytically complex, but instead depend on the characteristics of the external social context, the decision makers, and the decision problem itself. Because social concerns so often prevail in restoration decisions, we begin with a discussion of issues characterizing the social context. Next, in three increasingly broad contexts for watershed restoration, we discuss the application of several methods for facilitating decisions and solving problems involving uncertainty: Bayesian decision analysis, active adaptive management, passive adaptive management, and evolutionary problem solving.

Conflicts and creative idea endorsement

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 637-656
Author(s):  
Ahmad Adeel ◽  
Zhang Pengcheng ◽  
Farida Saleem ◽  
Rizwan Ali ◽  
Samreen Batool
Keyword(s):  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Idea Generation ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Relationship Conflict ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Exchange Relationships ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Political Skills ◽  
Creative Idea ◽  
Relationship Conflicts

Purpose This paper aims to investigate relationship conflicts and creative idea endorsement to develop the understanding of managerial reactions towards ideas of those who develop relationship conflicts with managers/supervisors at work. Taking a contingency perspective, the authors also investigated role subordinates’ political skills and implementation instrumentality play in determining supervisors’ endorsement of subordinates’ creative ideas. Design/methodology/approach The authors used two sources of data collected from 243 subordinates and their respective 41 supervisors of a multinational software company operating in an emerging economy (Pakistan) and analyzed the hypothesized model with Mplus using random coefficient modeling. Findings With this research, the authors contributed to management literature by investigating how the effects of relationship conflicts on creative idea endorsement depend on subordinates’ political skills and implementation instrumentality. They postulate a negative relationship between relationship conflict and creative ideas endorsement and predict that this negative relationship is augmented by subordinates’ implementation instrumentality but attenuated by subordinates’ political skills. They also give directions to decision makers in organizations that they must inform the managers/supervisors about negative effects of their relationship conflict with their subordinates and train supervisors and subordinates about reducing their relationship conflicts with each other for mutual benefits. Originality/value Organizations should take a relationship perspective when creating an environment for creativity: an environment based on mutual trust and respect so that exchange relationships can foster. With this research, the authors extended the list of potential detriment associated with relationship conflicts, that is the endorsement of creative ideas by supervisors. The authors also extended creativity literature by investigating social relationships for selection-focused creativity (idea endorsement) instead of variance-focused creativity (idea generation).

scholarly journals Dialogue Model, Conflict, and Context in Drama Text Works by Arifin C. Noer

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 126
Author(s):  
Wahono Wahono ◽  
Rustono Rustono ◽  
Agus Nuryatin ◽  
Mimi Mulyani
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Context Model ◽  
Dialogue Model

Dialogue, conflict, and context are paramount in the drama text. The research of these three things can reveal the meaning, aesthetics, and ideology that blend in the drama text. Drama text research has not obtained comprehensive results if it has not revealed all three. The purpose of this research is to find the dialogue model, conflict, and context in drama text by Arifin C. Noer. The approach used in this research is the critical discourse of Teun A. Van Dijk. Data are analyzed in three dimensions, namely text, social cognition, and social context through macro structures, superstructures, and microstructures. The global macro structure is reflected in the synopsis, the superstructure is seen from its builder elements, and the microstructure contains the use of language. The results of the microstructure research found that the dialogue can be configured in several models, i.e. by topic, principles of cooperation, principles of politeness, speech acts, and speech series. The conflict was created with a model of pragmatic, socio-psychology, and ideological principles use. The context model is the use of physical, epistemic, linguistic, and social context. The results of this research contribute to the increased appreciation of drama and reference texts in its teaching.

A Social Context Model for Discussion Process Analysis

2005 ◽  
pp. 128-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aldo de Moor ◽  
Rolf Kleef
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
Authoring Tools ◽  
Context Model ◽  
Information Tools ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
The Social ◽  
Group Report ◽  
Document Review

Computer-mediated discussion processes play an important role in achieving sustainable development. However, when part of authoring complex documents, these discussions have so far not been very effective. One reason is that in the design and application of the information tools supporting discussion, the social context is not sufficiently taken into account. We outline a social context model for discussion process analysis. The GRASS tool for group report authoring and the freeText tool for document review are authoring tools in which the social context of discussions is given explicit attention. Analyzing GRASS and freeText, we show how the model could be used to construct information tools that enable more effective discussions.

A Framework for Developing Drug Abuse Prevention Strategies for Young People in Ghetto Areas

1976 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 313-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Dembo ◽  
William Burgos
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Drug Abuse ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Young People ◽  
Abuse Prevention ◽  
Drug Abuse Prevention ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Prevention Strategies ◽  
Context Model ◽  
Prevention Activities

The present paper considers critical factors in the experience of young people that need to be taken into account in order to understand them and to develop prevention programs. Drawing upon research and the literature on socialization, social psychology and drug abuse, an ethnographically informed, social context model of the actor is developed and its implications for prevention activities among ghetto youths examined.

scholarly journals Decision-makers use social information to update their preferences—but choose for others as they do for themselves

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Michael ◽  
Alina Gutoreva ◽  
Huixian Michele Lee ◽  
Peng Ning Tan ◽  
Eleanor M. Bruce ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Social Information ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Risky Decisions

People’s risky decisions can be highly influenced by the social context in which they take place. Across three experiments we investigated the influence of three social factors upon participants’ decisions: the recipient of the decision-making outcome (self, other, or joint), the nature of the relationship with the other agent (friend, stranger, or teammate), and the type of information that participants received about others’ preferences: none at all, information about how previous participants had decided, or information about a partner’s preference. We found that participants’ decisions about risk did not differ according to whether the outcome at stake was their own, another agent’s, or a joint outcome, nor according to the type of information available. Participants were, however, willing to adjust their preferences for risky options in light of social information.

scholarly journals The Intentional Selection Assumption

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Colantonio ◽  
Kelley Durkin ◽  
Leyla Roksan Caglar ◽  
Patrick Shafto ◽  
Elizabeth Bonawitz
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Concept Learning ◽  
Choice Behavior ◽  
Social Influences ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Contextual Cues ◽  
Behavioral Experiments ◽  
Social Agent

There exists a rich literature describing how social context influences decision making. Here, we propose a novel framing of social influences, the Intentional Selection Assumption. This framework proposes that, when a person is presented with a set of options by another social agent, people may treat the set of options as intentionally selected, reflecting the chooser's inferences about the presenter and the presenter's goals. To describe our proposal, we draw analogies to the cognition literature on sampling inferences within concept learning. This is done to highlight how the Intentional Selection Assumption accounts for both normative (e.g., comparing perceived utilities) and subjective (e.g., consideration of context relevance) principles in decision making, while also highlighting how analogous findings in the concept learning literature can aid in bridging these principles by drawing attention to the importance of potential sampling assumptions within decision making paradigms. We present the two behavioral experiments that provide support to this proposal and find that social-contextual cues influence choice behavior with respect to the induction of sampling assumptions. We then discuss a theoretical framework of the Intentional Selection Assumption alongside the possibility of its potential relationships to contemporary models of choice. Overall, our results emphasize the flexibility of decision makers with respect to social-contextual factors without sacrificing systematicity regarding the preference for specific options with a higher value or utility.

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