Title Cultural factors in systems design : decision making and action / edited by Robert W. Proctor, Shimon Y. Nof, Yuehwern Yih

Published Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 326 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Industrial and systems engineering series Industrial and systems engineering series. Contents Section I: Introduction: Understanding cultures, Situations, and Behaviors -- 1. Cultures, Situations, and Behaviors: Theories and Models That Explain Why Best-Laid Plans Go Awry -- Section II: Contemporary Perspectives on Decision Making and Culture -- 2. Explaining Cultural Differences in Decision Making Using Decision Field Theory -- 3. Dynamic Decision Making and Cultural Affiliation -- 4. Why Do People Think Culturally When Making Decisions? Theory and Evidence -- 5. Cross-Cultural Decision Making: Impact of Values and Beliefs on Decision Choices -- Section III: International Partnership and Collaboration -- 6. Cultural Factors, Technology, and Operations in Developing Countries: Two Case Studies -- 7. Building Global Teams for Effective Industrial Research and Development -- 8. Cultural Factors: Their Impact in Collaboration Support Systems and on Decision Quality -- 9. Effects of Group Orientation and Communication Style on Making Decisions and Interacting with Robots -- Section IV: Decision Making in Healthcare -- 10. Deliberation and Medical Decision Making -- 11. Design of Performance Evaluation and Management Systems for Territorial Health care Networks of Services -- 12. Decision Making in Healthcare System Design: When Human Factors Engineering Meets Health Care -- 13. Cultural Factors in the Adoption and Implementation of Health Information Technology -- Section V: Specific Applications -- 14. Cultural Factors and Information Systems: An Application to Privacy Decisions in Online Environments -- 15. Factors Influencing the Decisions and Actions of Pilots and Air Traffic Controllers in Three Plausible NextGen Environments -- Section VI: Conclusion Summary Cultural factors, in both the narrow sense of different national, racial, and ethnic groups, and in the broader sense of different groups of any type, play major roles in individual and group decisions. Written by an international, interdisciplinary group of experts, Cultural Factors in Systems Design: Decision Making and Action explores innovations in the understanding of how cultural differences influence decision making and action. Reflecting the diverse interests and viewpoints that characterize the current state of decision making and cultural research, the chapter aut Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject System design -- Decision making Decision making -- Social aspects SCIENCE -- System Theory. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Operations Research. Decision making -- Social aspects Form Electronic book Author Proctor, Robert W. Nof, Shimon Y., 1946- Yih, Y. (Yuehwern) LC no. 2011038266 ISBN 1439846472 9781439846476 0429107978 9780429107979

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