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The Need for Another Decision-Making Methodology

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Henry Mintzberg defined three types of management roles: interpersonal, informational, and decisional (1989). Interpersonal refers to the ability of the manager of being a figure head, motivational, and a liason with the public (e.g., Steve Jobs at Apple). Informational refers to the manager’s role as information broker and disseminator. Decisional refers to the power and ability of making decisions.

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    An amusing discussion of how people can make irrational decisions is provided by Dan Ariely in Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions. Harper Perennial.

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  1. Carlow University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Enrique Mu

  2. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Milagros Pereyra-Rojas

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Mu, E., Pereyra-Rojas, M. (2017). The Need for Another Decision-Making Methodology. In: Practical Decision Making. SpringerBriefs in Operations Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33861-3_1

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