Decision Making
By: Dr. Mohammad Bashaar Ulfat
MD, MBA
Q1.What is the process of decision making? Discuss how does decision making fit into managerial activity?
Decision-making is a process of choosing among alternative courses of action in order to attain goals and objectives. Nobel laureate Herbert Simon wrote that the whole process of managerial decision-making is synonymous with the practice of management.1 Decision-making is at the core of all managerial functions. Planning, for example, involves deciding what should be done? When? How? Where? and By whom? Other managerial functions, such as organizing, implementing, and controlling rely heavily on decision-making.
Today's fast changing and global environment dictates that a successful enterprise has a rich decision-making process. This means not only gathering and processing data, but also making decisions with the support of state-of-the-art decision methods. Decision-making is the very......
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