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Definition: Decision Making |
Decision MakingNoun1. 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. |
| Domain | Definition |
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) |
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| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| DECIMAL | English | DECIsion MAking in Libraries | N/A |
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Synonym: Decision MakingSynonym: deciding (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Decision Making |
| English words defined with "decision making": resolution ♦ settlement. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "decision making": Byzantine generals ♦ cognitive ergonomics, constraints ♦ data mining, decentralized organisation, decision support, decision theory, distant control, divisionalized structure ♦ Environmental impact statement ♦ ITRMS ♦ JAD ♦ NDCDB ♦ participative management, participative supervision ♦ software design description, Sunshine Act ♦ telecontrol, teleregulation ♦ United States Geological Survey ♦ ventromedial prefrontal cortex, Viability assessment. (references) |
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Peter F. Drucker | Decision making is the specific executive task. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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) |
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| 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. |
| 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) | |
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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. | |
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