Decision Making

  

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Decision Making

Definition: Decision Making

Decision Making

Noun

1. The cognitive process of reaching a decision; "a good executive must be good at decision making".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Decision Making

DomainDefinition

Economics

Choosing among alternatives in cases where there is some uncertainty about the final result of each possible course of action. Source: European Union. (references)

Health

The process of making a selective intellectual judgment when presented with several complex alternatives consisting of several variables, and usually defining a course of action or an idea. (references)

Statistics

A procedure for making logical decisions on the basis of sample data. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Decision making

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Different sociological groups have different decision making methods. Methods which are likely to converge on a decision within a finite time interval range from dictatorship to direct democracy to consensus decision making. However, depending on how the methods are implemented in practice, any of these may lead to either no decision being made or to inconsistent decisions being made.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Decision making."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Decision Making

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField
DECIMALEnglishDECIsion MAking in LibrariesN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: Decision Making

Synonym: deciding (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Decision Making

English words defined with "decision making": resolutionsettlement. (references)
Specialty definitions using "decision making": Byzantine generalscognitive ergonomics, constraintsdata mining, decentralized organisation, decision support, decision theory, distant control, divisionalized structureEnvironmental impact statementITRMSJADNDCDBparticipative management, participative supervisionsoftware design description, Sunshine Acttelecontrol, teleregulationUnited States Geological Surveyventromedial prefrontal cortex, Viability assessment. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Decision Making

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Law of Higher Education: A Comprehensive Guide to Legal Implications of Administrative Decision Making (Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education S) (reference)

  • Rationality Gone Awry?: Decision Making Inconsistent With Economic and Financial Theory (reference)

  • Advance Directives and Surrogate Decision Making in Health Care: United States, Germany, and Japan (reference)

  • Decision Making in Anesthesiology: An Algorithmic Approach (Clinical Decision Making Series) (reference)

  • The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing: A Guide to Profitable Decision Making (3rd Edition) (reference)

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Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Decision Making

AuthorQuotation

Peter F. Drucker

Decision making is the specific executive task.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Decision Making

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Decision making about home monitoring is a collaborative enterprise. (references)

Testing can be helpful with regard to reproductive decision making and informative regarding family health. (references)

This occurs too little-the behavior placing the public health at greatest risk may be occurring in legislative and other decision making bodies. (references)

Business

Price, delivery, and service are always critical in decision making. (references)

Timely delivery is also a critical factor in the purchaser's decision making. (references)

The Central Bank is a very important body within the government structure and decision making process. (references)

Economic History

Egypt

This happens repeatedly, at every level of decision making. (references)

Chile

Credit services are a well known and commonly used tool for business decision making in the country. (references)

Sri Lanka

These measures have contributed to faster decision making and a slight improvement in the procurement climate. (references)

Human Rights

Morocco

In addition decision making was changed from requiring a unanimous vote to a two-thirds majority. (references)

Indigenous People

Peru

Many factors impede their ability to participate in, and facilitate their deliberate exclusion from, decision making directly affecting their lands, culture, traditions, and the allocation of natural resources. (references)

Political Economy

Austria

Social and economic decision making is being gradually shifted away from the social partners to the government. (references)

Travel

Vietnam

Consensual decision making is very deeply ingrained in Vietnamese social and political behavior. (references)

Zimbabwe

Moreover, there can be a distinct lack of transparency and an arbitrary character in government decision making. (references)

Japan

Group decision making is emphasized in Japan and has been generally described as a bottom up exercise rather than top down. (references)

Women

Colombia

The Constitution prohibits any form of discrimination against women and specifically requires the authorities to ensure "adequate and effective participation by women at decision making levels of public administration." Even prior to implementation of the 1991 Constitution, the law had provided women with extensive civil rights. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Decision Making

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

decision making

961

article decision making

9

decision making process

78

team decision making

9

critical thinking and decision making

61

military decision making process

9

ethical decision making

51

activity decision making

9

decision making model

45

decision making model rational

8

decision making technique

38

career decision making

8

group decision making

37

software for decision making

8

decision making skill

23

consumer decision making

8

decision making tool

21

organizational decision making

7

decision making style

17

the decision making game

7

ethics in decision making

15

consensus decision making

7

shared decision making

14

rational decision making

7

decision making and problem solving

13

effective decision making

7

medical decision making

13

decision making medical society

7

decision making strategy

12

teen decision making

7

decision making theory

12

data driven decision making

6

decision making steps

11

as decision making statistics subject

6

management decision making

11

between critical decision making relationship thinking

6

business decision making

10

financial decision making

5

managerial decision making

9

psychology decision making

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Decision Making

Language Translations for "decision making"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏صناعة القرار. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

вземане на решение. (various references)

   

Danish

  

beslutningstagning. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

besluitvorming (decision-making). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

päätöksenteko. (various references)

   

French

  

décision (decision, decree, deliverance), processus de décision, processus décisionnel, prise de décision. (various references)

   

German

  

Decision-Making. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

συνεργατική κατανεμημένη λήψη αποφάσεων (cooperative, distributed decision making). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

döntéshozatal (decision-making). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

urun-rembug (participate in decision making). (various references)

   

Italian

  

decisione (adjudication, decision, flatness, judgement, judgment, mind, resolution, resolve, ruling), processo decisionale. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

デオキシリボ 酸 (10^-1, carving, crepe de Chine, cutting up, decadence, decadent, decadentism, decanter, deci-, decibel, decimal, decimal point, decision, decision room, declamation, decode, decoder, decoding, decompiler, decorated cake, decoration, decoy, decrement, decrescendo, degree, deodorant, deoxyribo, deoxyribo nucleic acid, desert, design, design policy, design promoter, designer, designer brand, design-in, desire, dessert, dessert wine, digital, digital analog, digital art, digital audio tape recorder, digital computer, digital speedometer, digital television, Dixie, Dixieland, Dixieland jazz, fancy cake, low status, low-cut, transfer), 意思決定 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

デシジョンメーキング , いしけってい (decision-making). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ecisionday akingmay.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

принятие решения (decision-making, direction-finding). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

decidir (adjudge, arrange, clinch, decide, determine, dispose, have in mind, judge, make up one's mind, rule, run off, seal), toma de decisiones (decision-making). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

karar üreten. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

прийняти рішення. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Decision Making

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-g-i-i-i-k-m-n-n-o-s"

-3 letters: aniseikonic, decisioning, noisemaking.

-4 letters: demonising, dominances, ignominies, indecision, medicining, miscoining, mosaicking.

-5 letters: amidogens, ascending, canonised, comedians, consigned, deaconing, demoniacs, dimension, dominance, dominicks, incomings, indamines, insomniac, miscoding, miscoined, mosaicked, nicknamed, nicknames, seconding, sickening.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Familiar
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Abbreviations
10. Acronyms
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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