Time point of decision making.
On 27 July 2007, the Minister for Local Government announced a Section 740 inquiry into Port Macquarie-Hastings Council and the Glasshouse project, with particular regard to aspects of financial and project management, the project's impact on the Council to provide services and amenities to the community, and the openness and transparency of decisions made by the Council.
Dynamic representation of decision-making.
See related commentary End-of-life decision making for the intensive care unit (ICU) patient has been a hot topic in recent years, with the acknowledgement that such practice is common worldwide [ 1] and with a new openness among doctors and laypersons regarding the once rather taboo subject of death.
The conceptual framework we call the dimensions of openness attempts to overcome this obstacle by considering the issue of effective participation in terms of openness in the processes of assessment and decision making.
A perfect example of shared decision making.
Understand the principles of consensus decision making.
This inchoate tendency appears to foreshadow the full expression of authoritarianism in adulthood -- both the lack of openness to new ideas and the strict reliance on automatic, mindless judgments and decision making.
The three other examples, IEHIA, YVA, and Silver Book fall in between these extremes by allowing some degrees of openness, although in somewhat different ways, and identifying linkages between participation, assessment, and decision making.
Hence, this study proposes five essential dimensions that represent LC: openness and experimentation, risk taking, interaction with the external environment, dialogue and teamwork, and participative decision making.
In addition to describing varying degrees of openness, the comparison illustrates striking differences in how the approaches see the interrelations between participation, assessment, and decision making.
