Engineering Management & Decision Making
One of the most significant of the recent con
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One of the most significant of the recent contributions in engineering management within the context of interdisciplinary engineering involves decision making processes. Increasingly in the contemporary environment, engineering managers are being required to make decisions within environments that are characterized by higher levels of ambiguity and conflict than engineers in earlier periods have had to confront.1 Making decisions within such an environment is a difficult process at best. It becomes an even more difficult process in the contemporary shift towards a global economy, where in critical decisions can affect the continued viability of an organization. The interdisciplinary approach provides a strong foundation for the development of an organizational system wherein conflict can be defused and ambiguity can be clarified.2 The mixed mode decision making process that is characteristic of situations involving interdisciplinary engineering is particularly effective in situations wherein there are many stakeholders with potentially conflicting goals and objectives.3Both the quality revolution and the shift toward a more globally oriented economy have created situations that demand the introduction of behavioral change into engineering organizational cultures. Interdisciplinary engineering has proven to be an 1Paul C. Nutt, Making Tough Decisions (San Francisco: Josse Bass Publishers, 1990), 3.
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a. Chi square for questionnaire item #6, Chapter 4:
Observed Distributions
Strongly Agree Neither Disagree Strongly Totals Agree Agree nor Disagree
TQM Firms 68 46 9 19 19 161
Non TQM 34 25 18 31 23 131Firms
Totals 102 71 27 50 42 292
TQM firms = 55.1% of total
Non TQM firms = 44.9% of total
Theoretical Distributions
Percentages for row total (55.1% & 44.9%) multiplied by column totals yield theoretical distributions.
102 x .551 = 56.1 102 x .449 = 45.8
71 x .551 = 39.1 71 x .449 = 31.9
27 x .551 = 14.9 27 x .449 = 12.1
50 x .551 = 27.6 50 x .449 = 22.4
42 x .551 = 23.2 42 x .449 = 18.8
Strongly Agree Neither Disagree Strongly Totals Agree Agree nor Disagree
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