background: today, nurses are exposed to everchanging complicated conditions in health care services, they provide. to be able to cope with these conditions effectively, they should be competent decision makers. besides, as decision making conditions get more complicated, using critical thinking is a need. the current study was carried out to evaluate the relationship between critical thinking ...

each customer or consumer communicates with different markets with a specific decision-making style and these styles approximately remain constant over time. this research is done between tehran home appliance store customers with the aim of identifying the sproles and kendall’s model decision-making styles. sproles and kendall’s model has identified eight different decision-making styles, whic...

the malmquist productivity index evaluates the productivity change of a decision making unit (dmu) between two time periods. in this current study, a method is proposed to compute the malmquist productivity index in several time periods (from the first to the last periods) in data envelopment analysis (dea) and then, the obtained malmquist productivity index is compared with malmquist productiv...

rapid technological and economic growth over the last several decades has changed human lives and made modern society face complex decision making problems. these kinds of problems are characterized by incommensurate and conflicting criteria or objectives such as cost, reliability, performance, safety and productivity. multi criteria decision making is an approach that can be used to deal compl...

integrated urban management means adopting a holistic approach to urban management and designing appropriate mechanisms for this approach’s requirements in practice. the integration of the urban activities brings together organizational , structural and institutional activities and action in which the urban development is supported. in order to achieve integration, it is essential to identify f...

Background and Objectives: Evidence increasingly highlights the impact of emotional intelligence in managers on the productivity and performance of their organizations. Given the importance of decision-making in the management process, this study explored the relationship between emotional intelligence and decision-making quality in hospital managers. Methods: A cross-sectional questionnaire-...