Better Decision Making in Complex, Dynamic Tasks

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2. Introduction to Decision Making in Complex, Dynamic Tasks

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   2. Decision-Making and Learning in Complex, Dynamic Tasks: An Introduction

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3. Development of a Process Model for Better Decision Making

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   2. Empirical Evidence on Dynamic Decision-Making and ILEs

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   3. Towards a Road to Success: The Development of the Integrated Process Model

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   4. Seeking the Truth: Human-Facilitated ILEs and Hypotheses Development

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4. Setting the Stage for Decision Making and Learning

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   2. Overexploitation of Renewables Abound: Modeling for Fisheries Management

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   3. How to Develop a Managerial Practice Field, FishBankILE? HCI Design and Learning Principles in Service of DDM

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   4. On the Mechanics of Laboratory Experiments: The Experimental Design and Procedures

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5. On Better Decision Making in Dynamic Tasks

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   2. Improving Performance in Fisheries Management Task

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   3. Developing Transfer Learning Skills: The 1-Layer Process Model

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   4. Decision Strategy and Performance in Dynamic Tasks: The 2-Layer Process Model

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   5. Pulling It Together: A Process Model for DDM and Learning

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   6. The Greater Whole: Human-Facilitated ILEs and Better Decision-Making Critical Lessons Learned

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   7. Making Better Decisions in Healthcare, Energy Policy, and Education Sectors: Human-Facilitated ILEs in Action

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   8. Finale: A Road Map to Better Decision-Making in Complex, Dynamic Tasks

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6. Back Matter

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Computer simulation-based education and training is a multi-billion dollar industry. With the increased complexity of organizational decision making, projected demand for computer simulation-based decisional aids is on the rise. The objective of this book is to enhance systematically our understanding of and gain insights into the general process by which human facilitated ILEs are effectively designed and used in improving users’ decision making in dynamic tasks. This book is divided into four major parts. Part I serves as an introduction to the subject of “decision making in dynamic tasks”, its importance and its complexity. Part II provides background material, drawing upon the relevant literature, for the development of an integrated process model on the effectiveness of human facilitated ILEs in improving decision making in dynamic tasks. Part III focuses on the design, development and application of Fish Bank ILE, in laboratory experiments, to gather empirical evidence for the validity of the process model. Finally, part IV presents a comprehensive analysis of the gathered data to provide a powerful basis for understating important phenomena of training with human facilitated simulation-based learning environments, thereby, help to drive critical lessons to be learned. This book provides the reader with both a comprehensive understanding of the phenomena encountered in decision making with human facilitated ILEs and a unique way of studying the effects of these phenomena on people’s ability to make better decision in complex, dynamic tasks. This book is intended to be of use to managers and practitioners, researchers and students of dynamic decision making. The background material of Part II provides a solid base to understand and organize the existing experimental research literature and approaches.

• Business Dynamics
• Complex Decision Making
• Complex Dynamic Task
• Decision Making Dynamic Task
• Decision Making and Learning
• How to Develop an Lle
• Human Facilitated Interactive Learning environment
• ILE
• Interactive Learning Environment

“In this book it is intended to give ways of training with Human-Facilitated Interactive Learning Environments-ILEs, in order to have better decision making in complex dynamic tasks. … This is an outstanding book scientifically rigorous, fundamental and valuable in ‘Training with Human-Facilitated Interactive Learning Environments’, simultaneously conceptual and operative. Written by highly reputed contributors it is an essential reading for managers and practitioners, researchers, and students of dynamic decision making.” (Manuel Alberto M. Ferreira, International Journal of Latest Trends in Finance & Economic Sciences, Vol. 5 (2), 2015)

• School of Administrative Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada

  Hassan Qudrat-Ullah

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