Summarizing 4 readings - Judgment and Decision making
Budget: $10 – $30 AUD
Write an abstract of 300 words for the four (4) nominated readings below:
Nominated readings are:
1. Reading 1.1, March J.G. (1994) Chapter 2 (part), ‘Rule following’, in A Primer on
Decision Making, The Free Press, NY (RM&E PAGE 7)
2. Reading 4.3, Wildavsky, A., and Dake, K. (1990), ‘Theories of risk perception: who
fears what and why?’, Deadalus, 119 (4) (RM&E PAGE 149)
3. Reading 6.3, Green, R.M. (1984), ‘Neutral, Omnipartial rule-making’, in Green, R.M.,
The Ethical Manager, Macmillan (RM&E PAGE 265)
4. Reading 8.1, Linstone, H. (1984), ‘Our proposed perspectives’ in Linstone, H.,
Multiple Perspectives for Decision Making, North Holland, NY (RM&E PAGE 361)
Under each of the four (4) abstracts, write a 150 word example of how each reading relates to your work experience, or how they could relate to an imaginary work situation.
My work experience is engineering management and being electrical design engineer in food a food manufacturing factory.
Good document structure including:
o Title page (student name/number, tutor name, tutorial number, title,
submission date).
o Report Heading.
o Numbered headings for each section.
o Reference list page.
o Additional appendices (if needed).
o Report should have numbered pages and good English expression
(including punctuation and spelling).
o FEIT cover sheet should be included at the front of the submission.
To summarise, you are to submit:
• reading 1 abstract + example; and
• reading 2 abstract + example; and
• reading 3 abstract + example; and
• reading 4 abstract + example.
Nominated readings are:
1. Reading 1.1, March J.G. (1994) Chapter 2 (part), ‘Rule following’, in A Primer on
Decision Making, The Free Press, NY (RM&E PAGE 7)
2. Reading 4.3, Wildavsky, A., and Dake, K. (1990), ‘Theories of risk perception: who
fears what and why?’, Deadalus, 119 (4) (RM&E PAGE 149)
3. Reading 6.3, Green, R.M. (1984), ‘Neutral, Omnipartial rule-making’, in Green, R.M.,
The Ethical Manager, Macmillan (RM&E PAGE 265)
4. Reading 8.1, Linstone, H. (1984), ‘Our proposed perspectives’ in Linstone, H.,
Multiple Perspectives for Decision Making, North Holland, NY (RM&E PAGE 361)
Under each of the four (4) abstracts, write a 150 word example of how each reading relates to your work experience, or how they could relate to an imaginary work situation.
My work experience is engineering management and being electrical design engineer in food a food manufacturing factory.
Good document structure including:
o Title page (student name/number, tutor name, tutorial number, title,
submission date).
o Report Heading.
o Numbered headings for each section.
o Reference list page.
o Additional appendices (if needed).
o Report should have numbered pages and good English expression
(including punctuation and spelling).
o FEIT cover sheet should be included at the front of the submission.
To summarise, you are to submit:
• reading 1 abstract + example; and
• reading 2 abstract + example; and
• reading 3 abstract + example; and
• reading 4 abstract + example.