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managerial decision-making

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Understanding The Management Process
Management is the process of coordinating the organizational resources and optimally utilizing the same to achieve long-term goals of the organization. Organizational resources include human resources, material resources, and information resources. The information resources are strategically used in managerial decision-making process. The paper examines different aspects of management and discusses...
Tags: Managerial Decision-making, Resource, Information Resource, Managerial Accounting, Finance
Presentations 2003-01-01
Supporting Management And Decision Making
Making decisions is an essential aspect of life. Individuals, in every situation, have to make relevant decisions. Managerial decision-making is the process through which managers in an organization arrive at a suitable alternative solution to a given problem. Decision Support Systems DSS are interactive IT-based systems which utilize data and...
Tags: Managerial Decision-making, Decision-making, Tools & Techniques, Management
Presentations 2003-01-01
Managerial Decision-Making
Managerial decision-making is the process through which mangers in an organization arrive at a suitable alternative solution to a given problem. This entails a detailed analysis of the pros and cons of each available solution. The factors affecting managerial decision-making include risk, uncertainty, and conflict. The paper examines issues involved...
Tags: Managerial Decision-making, Managerial Accounting, Finance
Presentations 2003-01-01

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Private Pre-Decision Information, Performance Measure Congruity and the Value of Delegation
We use a linear contracting framework to study how the relation between performance measures used in an agent's incentive contract and the agent's private pre-decision information affects the value of delegating decision rights to the agent. The analysis relies on the idea that available performance measures are often imperfect representations...
Tags: Performance, Agent, Social Science Electronic Publishing Inc., Delegation, Real Estate, Performance Management, Business Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 2003-01-01
Corporate Risks and Property Insurance: Evidence From the People's Republic of China
Using panel data (1997-99) for 235 publicly listed companies in the People's Republic of China PRC, this study tests empirically the linkage between corporate risks and the decision to purchase property insurance and its financial extent. To achieve these objectives, the paper first estimates a probit insurance participation decision model...
Tags: Risk, Property Insurance, University Of Wales Swansea, Insurance, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance
White papers 2002-08-19
Why Do REITs Repurchase Stock? Extricating the Effect of Managerial Signaling in Open Market Share Repurchase Announcements
This paper explores the effect of stock repurchase announcements on equity returns for publicly traded real estate investment trusts. In addition to providing analysis of the corporate real estate decision to repurchase shares, the study of share repurchases in the context of real estate investment trusts provides a novel opportunity...
Tags: REIT, Corporate Real Estate, Open Market, Brigham Young University, Real Estate, Investment, Financial Services, Business Operations, Finance
White papers 2005-06-16
Managerial Motivation Dynamics and Incentives
Firms can increase profitability by appropriately motivating managers. This paper investigates drivers of managerial motivation, and propose how firms can use performance-pay to alter motivational patterns. The paper focuses on the agent's optimal effort decision in trading off compensation utility with effort cost in a static and dynamic setting. Surprisingly,...
Tags: Incentive, Compensation, Motivation, Benefits, Human Resources
White papers 2005-11-09
Agency Theory and the Design of Efficient Governance Mechanisms
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the mechanisms by which corporate boards may fail to provide the monitoring and ratification of managerial decision in public and private corporations. The paper creates a framework for thinking about the problem of designing efficient governance mechanisms that is based on the...
Tags: Ratification, Agency, Board, University Of Toronto, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law
White papers 2001-02-02
A Decision Support System Model For Subjective Decisions
Modern government and business units routinely collect and store structured data of general interest to them. Subjective assumptions and judgments are made by the mangers to interpret the data. Where the data volume is large, it may be difficult to sift the data, as the managerial skills may not be...
Tags: Decision Support System, University Of Tasmania, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
Tools & templates 2004-08-11
Building ROI-Based Decision Support Simulators
This paper outlines an analytical planning framework for building a decision support simulator that will enable the user to: 1) quantify the presence or absence of linkages between product and/or service quality perceptions and financial outcomes, 2) determine the strength and leveragability of such relationships and 3) rank alternative product...
Tags: Financial, Decision Support, ROI, Burke, Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
White papers 2002-01-01
Cash Flow Analysis
This article is talking about the managerial decision for managing the cash of the business. It explains about the basic of cash flow analysis - Cash is the essence of your business, so it is important to understand how cash flows in and out of your business. Careful cash management...
Tags: Cash Flow, Small Business, Analysis, Cash Management, Operational Accounting, Personal Finance, Finance
White papers 2001-10-01
Project Management: A Managerial Approach
Various organizational structures can be used for projects including: Projects within functional organizations, pure project, matrix, and mixed organizational structures; selecting the appropriate project organizational form is critical to the success of the project. This presentation states that a useful procedure for selecting an organizational...
Tags: Project Management, Subsystem, John Wiley & Sons Inc., Organizational Structure, Human Resources
Presentations 2003-01-01
Managerial patter cannot disguise pitiful show
Goalless, guileless, graceless. This match was to the beautiful game what the Spice Girls are to political theory. So banal that the Leeds fans who baited John Scales beforehand were too non-plussed to boo him at the end. Scales, whose punishment for preferring Tottenham to Leeds was to...
Tags: Manchester United Ltd., Tottenham Hotspur Plc.
Research articles 1996-12-16
Soccer-England: Managerial nod goes to Newcastle boss Robson.
Feb 7, 2003 The Sports Network via COMTEX London, England Sports Network - Newcastle United Manager Sir Bobby Robson has won the Barclaycard Manager of the Month Award for January, this is the fifth time the Toon Army favorite has picked up the ...
Tags: The Sports Network
Research articles 2003-02-08
Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument in Excessive Mutual Fund Fees Case
« Value Line Settles SEC Charges of Bogus Brokerage Commissions | Main The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument Monday in Jones v. Harris Associates, a case that could impact the amount of managerial fees that millions of mutual fund investors pay fund advisers.  The Court must decide what standard...
Tags: Mutual Fund, Fee, Advisor, Harris Associates L.P.
News items 2009-11-05
When a Buyback Isn't a Buyback: Open Market Repurchases and Employee Options
This paper examines how stock options affect the decision to repurchase shares. Firms announce repurchases when executives have large numbers of options outstanding and when employees have large numbers of options currently exercisable. Once the decision to repurchase is made, the amount repurchased is positively related to total options exercisable...
Tags: Reed Elsevier Inc., Open Market, Employee Stock Option, Buyback, Option, Stock Options & Grants, Stock Options, Benefits, Human Resources
White papers 2001-06-06
Simulation And Optimization For Real Options Valuation
From the executive summary: ‘Real Options Valuation ROV considers the managerial flexibility to make ongoing decisions regarding implementation of investment projects and deployment of real assets. The paper introduces a simulation-optimization approach to valuing real investment options based on a model containing several decision variables and realistic stochastic inputs. Using...
Tags: Valuation, Optimization, Institute For Operations Research, Investment, Finance
White papers 2003-01-01
Are Japanese managers more long-term oriented than United States managers?
In this paper, we examine individual characteristics of Japanese and United States managers, with a focus on managerial time horizons. Time horizon is defined as the predisposition toward a future focus of an individual decision maker. The future focus can vary from a short period to a long period in...
Tags: US Companies
Research articles 1998-07-01
Better Decisions: Balancing Efficiency & Buy-In
A big source of managerial churn is lack of clarity around the decision process. The biggest source of confusion is the Team Decision. Does this mean that the boss wants lots of input and discussion before deciding or does it mean that a decision isn't made until everyone agrees? Either...
Tags: Assumption, SuperTips Marketing, Team Management, Management
White papers 2007-12-01
Factors That Influence Project Management In Package Implementation Projects And Bespoke Projects
Business requirements are solved either by building a new system or by buying a readily available product or by a combination of both. The 'Build vs Buy' decision is made by the stakeholders after weighing various parameters. A 'Build' decision results in tailor made projects (also known as bespoke projects...
Tags: Project, Business Requirement, Decision, Project Smart, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
White papers 2008-11-12
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