UCS 390 - Developing Effective Decision Making and Problem Solving Competencies

4 Credit(s)

This course enhances students’ knowledge of the decision-making process in organizations, the core of an organization’s operation, and the foundation for managers and supervisors at any level. It provides students with decision-making tools including descriptive statistics, probability theory, hypothesis testing, and decision analysis/tree. Throughout this course, students learn different perspectives in the study of individual, group, and organizational decision making and investigate the pros and cons of various theories and approaches under these perspectives. Students are required to consider the role of rationality and nonrationality in decision making and examine how uncertainty and ambiguity may impact their perceptions of choices and risks.