Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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n. 1 (alternative form of decision making English) 2 (attributive of decision making English)
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In psychology, decision-making is regarded as the cognitive process resulting in the selection of a belief or a course of action among several alternative possibilities. Every decision-making process produces a final choice that may or may not prompt action. Decision-making is the process of identifying and choosing alternatives based on the values and preferences of the decision-maker.
Usage examples of "decision-making".
Abstract thought, I told Hannover, decision-making powers and symbolic communication and, for Speaker at least, even the gift of speech.
We must provide for interregional and international deliberations and decision-making.
History has shown that deterrence works best when decision makers are conservative in their goals, avoid taking risky actions, are content with the status quo, have access to high-quality information about their adversary, and work within an effective decision-making process that considers a range of possibilities and reaches a decision only after each possibility has been subjected to careful scrutiny.
By its electronic bootstraps it quickly raised its own intelligence, annexing to its own ends new banks of memory, new pathways of communication, new arsenals of decision-making chips.
As a Reserve officer, Coleman had always tried harder than regular officers of the same rank, but the positive knowledge that he could be booted out of the service any day, without a reason, unlike RA officers, and without getting a dime in severance pay, either, had affected his decision-making ability.
But money was plentiful then, and Rae rationalized that if nice surroundings made the board of trustees a better decision-making entity, then so be it.
He was there for astrophysical advising, bundled off by Arno, yet to his surprise had been drawn quickly into the very center of decision-making.
In the last 10 years, educational specialists have tried to teach thinking skills in school via asking probing, challenging questions, group discussions, enhancing listening, attending and categorizing skills, teaching problem-solving and decision-making, and so on.
It reveals how technological and social events are linked to one another, encourages the player to think in probabilistic terms, and, with various modifications, can help clarify the role of values in decision-making.
We might be able to defuse this situation and get their decision-making well away from the fire buttons and over to the communications officers.
Studies by social scientists like Lloyd Warner in the United States and Elliott Jaques in Britain, for example, have shown how important this time element is in management decision-making.
Super-industrial Man, rather than occupying a permanent, cleanly-defined slot and performing mindless routine tasks in response to orders from above, finds increasingly that he must assume decision-making responsibility--and must do so within a kaleidoscopically changing organization structure built upon highly transient human relationships.
For one thing it has a legitimizing effect, and for another, it does offer significant options for the more privileged sectors, sometimes called the political class or the decision-making sectors, maybe something like a quarter of the population in a wealthy society.
The information so obtained, fed into the micro-computerised decision-making centre of the neuroplasm, was processed instantaneously and a plan formed .
He was always willing to share in responsibility and decision-making, as long as it eventually led to the achievement of his own goals.