Making decisions

Introduction

This unit covers a few key topics that will help you to think in broad ways about how you and others take decisions; we shall also introduce you to some themes in social science which have direct relevance to managerial decision making. The approach of this unit is descriptive: rather than prescribing how you should make decisions we look at frameworks that will help you to understand how decisions are actually made. We aim to help you to develop greater insight into both your own decision making processes and those of others.

This unit is an adapted extract from the Open University course Making a difference (B830). [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)]