01720cam a2200205   4500001000500000005001700005008003900022010001700061020002800078100002000106245016700126260004400293300003500337504006600372505069200438520031401130650002101444650002101465700002801486772320181127184222.0050217s2005    gw a     b    001 0 eng  a  2005922551  a3540243070 (alk. paper)1 aGrunig, Rudolf.10aSuccessful decision-making :ba systematic approach to complex problems /cRudolf Grunig, Richard Kuhn ; translated from German by Anthony Clark and Claire O'Dea.  aBerlin ;aNew York :bSpringer,cc2005.  axvii, 231 p. :bill. ;c25 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [227]-231) and index.  aIntroduction.- Decision problems and decision-making  procedures: Decision problems.- Goal and problem-finding  systems as requirements for the discovery of decision  problems.- Rational decisions.- Decision-making  procedures.- A general heuristic decision-making  procedure: Overview of the decision-making procedure.-  Discovering and analysing the decision problem.-  Developing and evaluating options.- Establishing the  overall consequences of the options and making the final  decision.- A case study illustrating the application of  the procedure.- Special issues and approaches to  resolving them: Information procurement decisions.-  Collective decisions.- Final remarks.grt  aMaking decisions is certainly the most important task of a  manager and it is often a very difficult one. This book  offers a decision making procedure for solving complex  problems step by step. It focuses on problem analysis, on  developing solution options and on establishing the  decision making matrix.  0aDecision making. 0aProblem solving.1 aK�hn, Richard,d1939-