Duration: 60 Hours
Advanced Decision Making
This student workbook looks at decision making from the manager’s viewpoint and aims to help you to improve your decision making. It also recognises that, in business today, decision making is everyone’s responsibility. As decision making for staff, who are not managers, is often through involvement in team decisions the module also explores the benefits and limitations of team decision making.
Target Audience:
- Middle and Senior Managers
- Graduate recruits
- Anybody wanting to develop skills and knowledge in a particular management field
- NQF Level 7
Objectives:
- Explain the nature of managerial decision-making in different situations
- Identify models of decision-making, their advantages and constraints, and how to apply the steps in an effective decision-making process
- Identify and apply a range of techniques and tools to aid decision-making, for an individual manager
- Identify the strengths and weaknesses of group and organisational decision-making
Contents:
- The nature of managerial decision making
- Models of decision making
- Using the rational model for systematic decision making
- Decision making aids
- The psychology of decision making
- Group decision making
- Organisational decision making
- Feedback
- References
