Rational Decisions in Organisations

Frédéric Adam is a full professor in the Department of Business Information Systems at the University College of Cork’s Business School, Cork Ireland. His research interests are focused on decision support systems both in business and in the medical area where he has led several projects aimed at developing decision support artefacts for clinicians. He has also published extensively in the ERP area. He is a principal investigator (PI) in the Financial Services Innovation Centre and a founding PI in the INFANT Research Centre. Dorota Kuchta is a full professor in the Faculty of Management at the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland. Her research interests are focused on management models and methods under uncertainty, ambiguity and incomplete knowledge. She has led myriad research projects in the field of project management. She is the holder of two project management certificates: Certified Project Management Associate and PRINCE2 Foundation. Stanisław Stanek is a professor in the Faculty of Management at the General Tadeusz Kościuszko Military University of Land Forces, Wrocław, Poland. His research interests are focused on decision support systems. He has designed and implemented computerized decision support systems for businesses across a variety of industries and managed projects in the field of hybrid crisis decision support systems, logistics, IT and construction project management.

Part I The Human Perspective of Decision Making 1. Intuition in Decision Making: An Investigation in the Delivery Room. 2.The Moral Dilemmas Involved in Decisions to Respond to Physical Aggression. Part II Organisational Perspective of Decision Making 3. Maturity Evaluation in Construction Companies Based on Case Study Research and Fuzzy Set Theory. 4. Corporate Health and Safety Performance Index as a Measure of the Level of Occupational Health and Safety Management in the Company Based on the ISO 45001 Standard. 5.The Theoretical and Practical Design Thinking Approach in IT Project: The Remote Human REsource Management System Case Study. Part III Uncertainty and Pressure In Decision Making 6. Increasing the Efficiency of IT Waterfall Projects Control: Modified Earned Value Analysis Combined with Parametric Estimation. 7. An Application of Decision Support Technique for Global Software Project Monitoring and Rescheduling Based on Risk Analysis. 8. Type-2 Fuzzy Numbers in Models of Project Time Affected by Risk. Part IV Software Applied to Decision Making in Organisations 9. Socialising Decision Enactment: Living Provenance in Decision Support. 10. Machine Learning Solutions in the Management of a Contemporary Business Organisation: A Case Study Approach in a Banking Sector. 11. Integration of the Decision Support System with the Human Resources Management and Identity and Access Management Systems in an Enterprise. Conclusions