Decision Making in the Workplace

<p>Many, if not most, of one's important decisions are made in the context of one's work. However, because workplace decisions cover such a broad range of issues, it often is difficult to detect underlying commonalities in how they are made, and in how things go wrong when they do go wrong. As a result, there are nearly as many different descriptions of workplace decisions as there are decisions themselves. In this volume, the best features of these diverse descriptions are unified in a new, intuitively compelling view of decision making called "Image Theory." The result is a clear picture of real-life, day-to-day workplace decision making that allows us to think constructively about how such decisions are made and about how to improve them when improvement is necessary.</p> <p><b>Contents: </b>Preface. <b>L.R. Beach, T.R. Mitchell,</b> Image Theory, The Unifying Perspective. <b>L.R. Beach, R. Lipshitz,</b> Why A New Perspective On Decision Making Is Needed. <b>C.K. Stevens, L.R. Beach,</b> Job Search and Job Selection. <b>C.K. Stevens,</b> Career Decisions. <b>B.L. Bissell, L.R. Beach,</b> Supervision and Job Satisfaction. <b>T.W. Lee,</b> Why Employees Quit. <b>L.R. Beach, J.R. Frederickson,</b> Audit Decisions. <b>S.K. Asare,</b> Screening of Clients by Audit Firms. <b>K.A. Weatherly, L.R. Beach,</b> Organizational Culture and Decision Making. <b>K.R. Walsh,</b> Mitigating Cultural Constraints On Group Decisions. <b>L.R. Beach, H. Jungermann, E.E.J. De Bruyn,</b> Imagination and Planning. <b>C.P. Puto, S.E. Heckler,</b> Designing Marketing Plans and Communication Strategies. <b>K.A. Nelson,</b> Consumer Decisions Involving Social Responsibility. <b>K.J. Dunegan,</b> Image Compatibility and Framing. <b>T. Connolly,</b> Image Theory and Workplace Decisions: Challenges.</p>