Rational Decisionmaking in Higher Education
| Title: | Rational Decisionmaking in Higher Education |
| Author: | Chaffee, Ellen Earle |
| Date: | 1983 |
| Catalog #: | 2BA343 |
| Price: | $ 10.00 |
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| Description: |
The numerous models designed for organizational decisionmaking often meet with skepticism. According to the critics, they simply fail to deal adequately with the complexities that beset most colleges and universities. Rational Decisionmaking in Higher Education is a notable exception to the rule. This incisive book reviews various models of decisionmaking, and then proposes a rational approach to the budget process in higher education. The book combines a solid conceptual approach with an empirically-based study that was part of the author’s doctoral work at Stanford. Her case for rationalizing the planning-budgeting process is practical, persuasive, and encouraging. In the author’s words, “Using a rational decision process is a means of saving faculty and students from cynicism....” |