Organizational decision making

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The process of making choices from available options, including decision making process models, biases, and ethics.

Organizational structure: The way organizations are structured, including the hierarchy of authority, chain of command, and reporting relationships.
Decision-making models: The different approaches and methods used by organizations to make decisions, such as rational, bounded rationality, and intuitive models.
Group decision making: The process of making decisions within a group or team setting, including factors that influence group decision making, such as group size, diversity, and member interaction.
Leadership styles: The different leadership styles and their impact on organizational decision making, including autocratic, democratic, and laissez-faire approaches.
Risk management: The identification, assessment, and prioritization of risks and the use of strategies to minimize, monitor, and control the impact of those risks on organizational decision making.
Ethical decision making: The process of making decisions that are consistent with moral and social values and principles, including factors that influence ethical decision making, such as culture, values, and individual differences.
Stakeholder analysis: The process of identifying and analyzing the interests, needs, and expectations of stakeholders, and incorporating those insights into decision making processes.
Decision making biases: The different types of biases that affect decision making, such as confirmation bias, anchoring bias, and availability bias, and how to mitigate their impact.