ClassInfo - Fall 2015 Information and Decision Sci Classes

Fall 2015 | IDSC 6481 Section 060: Managerial Decision Making (13851)

Instructor(s): Shawn C
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 2 Credits
Grading Basis:: A-F only
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person Term Based
Times and Locations:: Second Half of Term

10/27/2015 - 12/16/2015

Wed 05:45PM - 09:05PM

UMTC, West Bank

Carlson School of Management 1-142

Course Catalog Description:: Frameworks for making decisions as a manager, knowledge worker, or individual. How policies area adopted. Poor decision making. Learning from mistakes. Bounded rationality, system thinking, concepts of learning. prereq: MBA student
Class Description:: This is not an IS course. The course is based on research in psychology and research in organizational theory to understand how decisions are made and when decisions fail. From this understanding, practical approaches and techniques for improving decision making are identified and, as appropriate, demonstrated. Although we use theory and achieve a working understanding of theory for our purposes, this is not a course in psychology or in organizational theory. It is a course in understanding the dynamics of decision making, towards the practical goal of improving decision making. Questions that frame the course include: - How are decisions made? What are the elements of a decision? Psychological and organizational theories form the bases of the frameworks employed. - How do decisions fail? What are some of the barriers to good decision making, or characteristics of how we make decisions, that can lead us astray? - Based on the above, what techniques have or can be identified for improving decision making in our organizations? Developing and evaluating such techniques are the ultimate goals of the course.
Grading:: 90% Reports/Papers
10% Class Participation
Class Format:: 30% Lecture
35% Discussion
35% Small Group Activities
Workload:: 60 Pages Reading Per Week
20 Pages Writing Per Term
4 Paper(s)
Textbooks:: https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/13851/1159
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:: 8 November 2007

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