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Efficient Decision-Making in LSOPM Operations

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Decision-making plays an especially important role in an organization. This chapter deals with a detailed understanding of general decision-making in terms of types of decisions, individual and group decision-making, decision-making processes and models, strategic decision-making, effective managerial decision-making, and tools and techniques used for group decision-making. Apart from that, the chapter shows that in LSOPM operations, the results of primary research in terms of the advantages of better decision-making between the interrelationship of swift decision-making and productivity. In conclusion, a model showing the 11 factors that are relevant to swift decision-making and productivity is presented in the end.

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  1. College of Industrial Management, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahram, Saudi Arabia

    Hassan Qudrat-Ullah

  2. Academic Doctoral Consultant-Freelance, North York, ON, Canada

    Pramela Nair Panthallor

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Table 4.4 Benefits of better decision-making process
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Table 4.5 Effect of swift decision-making on productivity
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Qudrat-Ullah, H., Panthallor, P.N. (2021). Efficient Decision-Making in LSOPM Operations. In: Operational Sustainability in the Mining Industry. Asset Analytics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9027-6_4

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