1st Edition
Engaged Decision Making From Team Knowledge to Team Decisions
Part I. Are more heads better than one?
Chapter 1. Decision making traps
Chapter 2. Motivated team decision making
Chapter 3. Interventions to support team decisions
Part II. An overview of selected interventions
Chapter 4. Group model building: Understanding complex behaviour
Chapter 5. Application: Building the business model of Sioo management education
Chapter 6. Participatory scenario development: Thinking about the future
Chapter 7. Application: Understanding possible futures of Nijmegen municipality
Chapter 8. Group causal mapping: Clarifying issues, understanding purpose and developing options
Chapter 9. Application: Prioritising projects to tackle teenage pregnancies in a multi-cultural neighbourhood (part I)
Etiënne A. J. A. Rouwette and L. Alberto Franco with Ewan Lord
Chapter 10. Decision conferencing: Articulating value preferences and trade-offs
Chapter 11. Application: Prioritising projects to tackle teenage pregnancies in a multi-cultural neighbourhood (part II)
Etiënne A. J. A. Rouwette and L. Alberto Franco with Ewan Lord
Part III. Performing interventions
Chapter 12. Design choices
Chapter 13. Basics of facilitation
Chapter 14. Managing process and content
Chapter 15. Managing conflict and emotion
Part IV. Researching interventions
Chapter 16. Are interventions used in practice and do they really work?
Chapter 17. Building skills for the study and practice of interventions
Biography
Etiënne A. J. A. Rouwette is a professor of research and intervention methodology at the Nijmegen School of Management at Radboud University, the Netherlands. He received his PhD from Utrecht University. His research focuses on cognition and communication in group decision support, applying facilitated modelling in domains such as healthcare, sustainability, and security, among others.
L. Alberto Franco is a professor of decision sciences at the University of Bristol Business School, UK. He received his PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science. His main research interests are centred on the study of group decision support practice, with special attention to evaluating how cognition and behaviour affect, and are affected by, the use of decision aids and facilitated processes.
'A ground-breaking psychological approach which equips people with the insight and tools they need to break free from emotional eating'
David A Kessler, author of 'Diet, Drugs & Dopamine' and former head of the FDA.
