Although Operational Research (OR) has successfully provided many methodologies to address complex decision problems, in particular based on the rationality principle, there has been too little discussion regarding their limited consideration in IT evaluation practice and associated decision making satisfaction levels in an organisational context. The aim of this paper is to address these issues through providing a current account of diffusion and infusion of OR methodologies in IT decision making practice, and by analysing factors affecting decision making satisfaction from a Technological, Organisational, and Environmental (TOE) framework in the context of IT induced business transformations. We developed a structural equation model and conducted an empirical survey, which supported four out of five developed research hypotheses. Our results show that while Decision Support Systems (DSS), holistic IT evaluation methods, and management support seem to positively affect individual satisfaction, legislative regulation has an adverse effect. Results also revealed a persistent methodology diffusion and infusion gap. The paper discusses implications in each of these aspects and presents opportunities for future work. (authors' abstract)

The aim of this work is to create an application in VBA to compare countries using multi-criteria decision making methods. The main methods, mentioned in the theoretical part are implemented in the application. In theoretical part there are also compared different multi-criteria decision making methods. This work also describes macroeconomic criteria, weigths and the selection of countries. The aim of the final part is the analysis of country comparison results.

As the number of women entering postsecondary education continues to increase (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2014), universities will be tasked with ensuring that their pregnancy leave policies and practices are aligned with the principles of organizational justice. When organizations are aware of the perceptions of both decision makers and those affect by decisions, they are able to alter policies and practices in a way that promotes perceptions of fairness. The present study examines department head and faculty member perceptions of pregnancy leave practices in a university setting. This study is a replication/follow-up of two studies conducted in 2005 and 1995 on perceptions of pregnancy leave practices within a university setting. The results indicate that department heads and faculty members similarly perceive the fairness of options to cover a pregnant faculty member’s responsibilities. Department heads and faculty also rated their willingness to use an option similarly. Additionally, department heads are more willing to use options that they perceived as fair and are less likely to use options they perceived as unfair. The findings of this study indicate that it is important for those affected by decisions such as pregnancy leave practices to experience voice in the decision-making process. The results of this study should be useful to universities and department heads when determining how to cover the responsibilities of a faculty member on pregnancy leave.

The theme of the graduation thesis is the process of public procurement in the state-established organization. Since the sphere of public procurement is very extensive the thesis focus on possibilities of use of multiple criteria decision making methods for the selection of the optimal offer. In addition to multicriterial decision making methods the thesis deals with preparative phase of the whole process especially with the statement of the evaluative criteria and determination of their weights. The thesis refers to the deficiencies of the process of public procurement that we can see in practice and tries to propose the possibilities how to avoid these deficiencies.

Substantial anthropogenic change of the Earth’s climate is modifying patterns of rainfall, river flow, glacial melt and groundwater recharge rates across the planet, undermining many of the stationarity assumptions upon which water resources infrastructure has been historically managed. This hydrological uncertainty is creating a potentially vast range of possible futures that could threaten the dependability of vital regional water supplies. This, combined with increased urbanisation and rapidly growing regional populations, is putting pressures on finite water resources. One of the greatest international challenges facing decision makers in the water industry is the increasing influences of these “deep” climate change and population growth uncertainties affecting the long-term balance of supply and demand and necessitating the need for adaptive action. Water companies and utilities worldwide are now under pressure to modernise their management frameworks and approaches to decision making in order to identify more sustainable and cost-effective water management adaptations that are reliable in the face of uncertainty. The aim of this thesis is to compare and contrast a range of existing Decision Making Methods (DMMs) for possible application to Water Resources Management (WRM) problems, critically analyse on real-life case studies their suitability for handling uncertainties relating to climate change and population growth and then use the knowledge generated this way to develop a new, resilience-based WRM planning methodology. This involves a critical evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of a range of methods and metrics developed to improve on current engineering practice, to ultimately compile a list of suitable recommendations for a future framework for WRM adaptation planning under deep uncertainty. This thesis contributes to the growing vital research and literature in this area in several distinct ways. Firstly, it qualitatively reviews a range of DMMs for potential application to WRM adaptation problems using a set of developed criteria. Secondly, it quantitatively assesses two promising and contrasting DMMs on two suitable real-world case studies to compare highlighted aspects derived from the qualitative review and evaluate the adaptation outputs on a practical engineering level. Thirdly, it develops and reviews a range of new potential performance metrics that could be used to quantitatively define system resilience to help answer the water industries question of how best to build in more resilience in future water resource adaptation planning. This leads to the creation and testing of a novel resilience driven methodology for optimal water resource planning, combining optimal aspects derived from the quantitative case study work with the optimal metric derived from the resilience metric investigation. Ultimately, based on the results obtained, a list of suitable recommendations is compiled on how to improve the existing methodologies for future WRM planning under deep uncertainty. These recommendations include the incorporation of more complex simulation models into the planning process, utilisation of multi-objective optimisation algorithms, improved uncertainty characterisation and assessments, an explicit robustness examination and the incorporation of additional performance metrics to increase the clarity of the strategy assessment process.

This thesis is focused on multi-criteria decision making. There were chosen new EU countries for the evaluation. Then there were found suitable criteria and set scales for them. The multi-criteria analysis was made with five methods and then there was defined the compromise order. The results were compared in 2007 - 2010 period, when all countries became members of the EU and there was impact of the economical crisis in these years.

The aim of this diploma thesis is an analysis of financial products for students in the Czech Republic and the chosen country of the European Union. The theoretical part describes the basic concepts related to banking, financial mathematics and decision-making models. In the practical part individual student accounts are analyzed and then two model examples for the monthly costs account and for multi-criteria decision-making methods are processed.

Актуальность темы связана с развитием концертной деятельности в Российской Федерации, которая происходит в результате роста количества артистов, разнообразия новых концертов и спектаклей и качества сервисов, работающих в развлекательной сфере. В связи с изменениями в ФЗ № 54 «О применении контрольно-кассовой техники при осуществлении расчетов в Российской Федерации», организациям необходимо предоставлять билеты в онлайн-кассы, следовательно, возникает необходимость созданию собственной автоматизированной системы для продажи билетов онлайн. В век информатизации, большие количество продаж происходит через онлайн-сервисы. Люди уже перестали ходить в магазин для покупки нужной вещи, поскольку существует множество сервисов для онлайн-покупки. Однако не у всех компаний существуют собственные сайты, для продажи товара. Также данная проблема и возникает в концертной деятельности. Клиенту проще купить билет на нужные мероприятия используя интернет ресурсы. Поэтому возникает необходимость создания собственного сайта для продвижения мероприятий онлайн. Цель магистерской работы: методы принятия управленческих решений в задачи эффективной работы концертного агентства ООО «АРТ БИЛЕТ», с целью совершенствования каналов продажи организации. / The relevance of the topic is connected with the development of concert activity in the Russian Federation, which occurs as a result of the growing number of artists, the variety of new concerts and performances and the quality of services operating in the entertainment sector. In connection with the changes in the Federal Law No. 54 “On the use of cash registers when making settlements in the Russian Federation”, organizations need to provide tickets to the online ticket office, therefore, it is necessary to create their own automated system for selling tickets online. In the information age, large numbers of sales take place through online services. People have already stopped going to the store to buy the right thing, because there are many services for online shopping. However, not all companies have their own websites for the sale of goods. This problem also occurs in concert activities. It is easier for the client to buy a ticket to the necessary events using the Internet resources. Therefore, there is a need to create your own website to promote events online. The purpose of the master's work: methods of making management decisions in the task of effective work of the concert agency LLC ART BILET, with the aim of improving the channels of sale of the organization.

The aim of this diploma thesis is to devise general evaluation procedure of current accounts for associations and then to compare the theoretical results with the results of the questionnaire survey. The aim of the questionnaire survey is to find out what accounts the associations use and why. The theoretical part of this thesis is focused on the scientific discipline called multi-criteria decision making, its basic terminology, the methods of setting the criterions' weights and selected multi-criteria decision making methods. Finally, the associations are described according to valid legislation. In the practical part, selected accounts for specific clients are evaluated by using three multi-criteria decision making methods and the questionnaire survey is evaluated too. The conclusion is dedicated a comparison of the theoretical evaluation results with the questionnaire survey results and the author's own view of this issue. Familiarization of the author with the associations' activities during a personal meeting with them is the main benefit of this thesis for the author. The finding that the accounts of some of them are not as advantageous as they were before is the benefit for the associations. Some of them decided to visit their bank and change the account to the account recommended by the author.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:52:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 5891.pdf: 12093424 bytes, checksum: 2f4be2e6dd8f12b62c9c9f9c787c2888 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-02-19 / Considering the representativeness of the Construction sector in the national economy, there is an increase in demand for the use and adaptation of concepts, techniques and methods developed for the manufacturing environment aiming to improve the production and management performance of companies. The use of information systems, especially ERP, has being the focus of several studies in the last decade. Thus, it is considered that the matter "ERPs" for construction, specifically considering the use of methods of decision making with multiple criteria, is far from being fully consolidated, and this research contributes to society and the academic community to enrich this discussion. The main objective of this work is to apply a form of prioritization of management processes to assist the selection of ERP system in construction company aimed at improving the flow of information held between the management system and production system, providing improved management processes management. The method of making multiple decision criteria provided AHP prioritization processes that must be considered in the selection and adoption of an ERP. The research supports the view of many studies that link the analysis of the internal processes of a company as relevant to the adoption of management information systems, as these should be oriented to business processes and not the opposite. Considering the importance of the issues raised by the analysis of the proposed case, the prioritization process, systematized by applying the AHP method can be considered as one (and not only) the guidelines in the selection of ERP systems available in the market process. / Considerando a representatividade do setor da Construção Civil na economia nacional, observa-se um aumento na demanda pela utilização e adaptação de conceitos, técnicas e métodos desenvolvidos para o ambiente de manufatura visando aprimorar o desempenho produtivo e gerencial das empresas. A utilização de sistemas de informação, em especial o ERP, está sendo o foco de diversas pesquisas nesta última década. Desta forma, considera-se que a temática adoção de ERP para Construção Civil pesada, especificamente considerando o uso de métodos de tomada de decisão com múltiplos critérios, encontra-se distante de estar completamente consolidada, e assim, a presente pesquisa contribui para a sociedade e para a comunidade acadêmica com o enriquecimento desta discussão. O objetivo principal deste trabalho é aplicar uma forma de priorização dos processos gerenciais para auxiliar a seleção de sistema ERP na indústria da construção civil pesada visando à melhoria do fluxo de informações realizado entre o sistema gerencial e o sistema de produção, proporcionando melhoria nos processos de gestão gerencial. O método de tomada de decisão múltiplos critérios AHP proporcionou a priorização de processos que devem ser considerados na seleção e adoção de um sistema ERP. A pesquisa corrobora a visão de diversos estudos que apontam a análise dos processos internos de uma empresa como relevante para a adoção de sistemas de informação gerenciais, pois estes devem ser orientados aos processos da empresa e não o inverso. Considerando a relevância dos aspectos levantados pela análise do caso proposto, a priorização de processos, sistematizada através da aplicação do método AHP, pode ser considerada como uma (e não a única) das diretrizes no processo de seleção de sistemas ERP disponíveis no mercado.