THEORY regarding patterns of deA X D P R A C T I C E cision-making in libraries have been relatively neglected aspects of library administration. Yet the decisions by which a library attempts to control its operations are of major importance to its welfare and effectiveness. Recent theories in management and social psychology have addressed themselves to the implications of participative manage...

The field of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) is now mature, with several welldeveloped methodologies, a growing number of real-world interventions and a strong society that joins together researchers and practitioners all over the world. We believe that a new generation of multi-criteria decision analysts is emerging – interested in doing research and/or employing MCDA methodologies int...

Administrative Motivation, Participative Decision-Making and Academic Staff Management as Correlates of Productivity Tertiary Institution’s Lecturers in Delta State, used the expost-facto design, co￾relational survey method. 4,780 lecturers was population 2,014 sample using stratified random sampling technique. One research question raised, answered one null hypothesis formulated tested. A self...

Background and objectives:   MCDA is a decision-making tool with increasing use in the healthcare sector, including HTA (Health Technology Assessment). By applying multiple criteria, including innovation, in a comprehensive, structured and explicit manner, MCDA fosters a transparent, participative, consistent decision-making process taking into consideration values of all stakeholders. This pap...

Although user participation has been studied over four decades, the effectiveness users’ participative activities has not been well assessed. This research proposes knowledge participation as an assessment of the effectiveness of participative activities performed by users. By capturing the effectiveness of users’ participative activities, the construct of knowledge participation is argued to h...