Acting rationally entails maximizing satisfaction of one's own subjective preferences.
It is desired to design rosters that consider both, the staff rostering and vehicle routing components while minimizing transportation costs and maximizing satisfaction of patients and nurses.
The later Weber's types depict the invariant subjective experiences of anyone who acts within the economic framework as defined by the principle of marginal utility, that is, choosing to maximize satisfaction.
Senior physicians should relay information to families to maximize satisfaction levels.
In this context, we deduce three level goal formulations; maximizing satisfaction level of trade, maximizing satisfaction degrees of customers, and finally maximizing total CLSC profit function.
He warns us that the goal of "maximizing consumer satisfaction" becomes more complicated when replaced by the two goals of "maximizing satisfaction" and "minimizing dissatisfaction", and suggests that "patterns" may be more valid than specific product findings.
Our results suggested that private facilities will continue to attract clients by maximizing satisfaction through respectful care and efficient of service, but need assistance with technical standards of care.
As Hare notes (1981: 103), restrictions upon the relevant range of preferences may have the effect of bringing together a utilitarianism that aims to maximize pleasure or happiness, and one that aims to maximize the satisfaction of preference.
According to the "preference utilitarianism" of R.M. Hare (1919 2002), actions are right if they maximize the satisfaction of preferences or desires, no matter what the preferences may be for.
