Decision making in today's organizations is often distributed widely and usually supported by such technologies as satellite communications, electronic messaging, teleconferencing, and shared data bases. Distributed Decision Making outlines the process and problems involved in dispersed decision making, draws on current academic and case history information, and highlights the need for better theories, improved research methods and more interdisciplinary studies on the individual and organizational issues associated with distributed decision making. An appendix provides additional background reading on this socially and economically important problem area.
- Distributed Decision Making
- Copyright
- Participants Workshop on Distributed Decision Making
- Foreword
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Theories for Distributed Decision Making
- EXPLORING ALTERNATIVE DEFINITIONS
- IMPROVING THE AVAILABILITY OF EXISTING THEORIES
- EXTENDING THE RANGE OF EXISTING THEORIES
- Empirical Research for Distributed Decision Making
- RESEARCH TOPICS IN INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOR
- Mental Models
- Semi-Analytic Cognition
- Decision Making in Real Life
- Interpreting Instructions
- RESEARCH TOPICS IN INDIVIDUAL-MACHINE BEHAVIOR
- Trust
- Expert Systems
- System Stability and Operator Competence
- Displaying Uncertainty
- RESEARCH TOPICS IN MULTIPLE INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOR
- Shared Knowledge
- Barriers to Sharing
- Distribution of Responsibility
- RESEARCH TOPICS IN ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
- Reliability
- Conflicting Demands
- Learning
- RESEARCH METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTED DECISION MAKING
- Analytical Measures
- Case Studies
- Instrumentation
- Capturing Mental Models
- Institutional Structure for Distributed Decision Making
- Appendix A The Possibility of Distributed Decision Making
- A SHORT HISTORY OF DECISION AIDING
- WHY IS INDIVIDUAL DECISION MAKING SO HARD?
- Option Generation
- Value Assessment
- Uncertainty Assessment
- Option Choice
- Cognitive Assets and Biases
- WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT?
- Modeling Languages
- Skilled Judgment
- HOW IS DISTRIBUTED DECISION MAKING DIFFERENT?
- HOW DO DISTRIBUTED DECISION-MAKING SYSTEMS DIFFER?
- Single-Person Systems
- Two-Person Systems
- Multiple-Person Systems
- PRINCIPLES IN DESIGNING DISTRIBUTED DECISION-MAKING SYSTEMS
- Goals of the Analysis
- Design Guidelines
- Design Ideologies
- Human Factors
- THE POSSIBILITY OF DISTRIBUTED DECISION MAKING
- REFERENCES
- Appendix B Background Materials
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