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Rules for Effective Decision Making
(From Janis and Mann, 1977, as cited in Jacks, 2000, Instructor’s Manual and Test Bank to Accompany Exploring Social Psychology)
1. Survey a wide range of objectives to be reached, always taking into account the multiplicity of values involved.
2. Consider a wide range of possible courses of action.
3. Intensively search for new information relevant to evaluating the alternatives.
4. Correctly consider and assimilate new information and expert judgments, even when they do not support the initially preferred course of action.
5. Reconsider both the positive and negative consequences of alternatives originally regarded as unacceptable, before making a final decision.
6. Carefully weigh the negative as well as the positive consequences that could result from the preferred alternative.
7. Prepare detailed provisions for implementing and monitoring the chosen course of action, with particular attention to contingency plans that might be required if known risks were to materialize.
Each of these criteria can be viewed as a continuum; individual groups can be given a low, medium or high rating. Any gross failure to meet a criterion is a symptom of defective decision making.
Malek Zoubi
Student Trustee
Student Resource Center (SRC) 1550
(630) 942-2096
