Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com
Image from Google Jackets

The Psychology of Decision Making : people in organizations / Lee Roy Beach

By: Material type: TextSeries: Foundations for organizational sciencePublication details: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1997.Description: xiii, 223 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0761900799
  • 9780761900795
  • 0761900802
  • 9780761900801
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Psychology of decision making.DDC classification:
  • 153.83 21 BEA
LOC classification:
  • HD30.23 .B413 1997
NLM classification:
  • HD30.23
Contents:
1. The Preliminaries -- 2. Framing the Problem -- 3. Policy: Part 1 -- 4. Policy: Part 2 -- 5. Choice -- 6. Subjective Probability -- 7. Utility -- 8. Interpersonal Decisions -- 9. Organizational and Group Decisions -- 10. Naturalistic Decision Therapy: Part 1 -- 11. Naturalistic Decision Therapy: Part 2 -- 12. Looking to the Future
Summary: Written by one of the leading scholars in the field of decision-making research, The Psychology of Decision Making provides an overview of decision making as it relates to management, organizational behavior issues, and research. This engaging book examines the way individuals make decisions - how they form judgments privately and in the context of the organization. It also discusses the interplay of group and institutional dynamics and their effects upon the decisions made within and on the behalf of organizations. Researchers and advanced students in the field of organization science, social psychology, and industrial psychology who want a better understanding of how the field has developed as a scholarly discipline and of the processes involved in decision making will find this an excellent resource

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-210) and index.

1. The Preliminaries -- 2. Framing the Problem -- 3. Policy: Part 1 -- 4. Policy: Part 2 -- 5. Choice -- 6. Subjective Probability -- 7. Utility -- 8. Interpersonal Decisions -- 9. Organizational and Group Decisions -- 10. Naturalistic Decision Therapy: Part 1 -- 11. Naturalistic Decision Therapy: Part 2 -- 12. Looking to the Future

Written by one of the leading scholars in the field of decision-making research, The Psychology of Decision Making provides an overview of decision making as it relates to management, organizational behavior issues, and research. This engaging book examines the way individuals make decisions - how they form judgments privately and in the context of the organization. It also discusses the interplay of group and institutional dynamics and their effects upon the decisions made within and on the behalf of organizations. Researchers and advanced students in the field of organization science, social psychology, and industrial psychology who want a better understanding of how the field has developed as a scholarly discipline and of the processes involved in decision making will find this an excellent resource

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.
Share