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Automatic information processing activities and operational decision making: A case study of consequence

✍ Scribed by Rene van der Vlist

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1989
Tongue
English
Weight
662 KB
Volume
16
Category
Article
ISSN
0378-7206

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✦ Synopsis

The introduction of scanning facilities in the supermarkets of a dutch supermarket chain had effect on the quality of the jobs as experienced by supermarket employees. Job satisfaction decreased also. When all, or a sufficient number of supermarkets of the chain are equipped with scanning facilities the question arises how it will affect operational decision making at the level of the single supermarket.

Top executives hesitate about the amount of centralization/decentralization of operational decision making. In order to reach a sound decision some considerations should be kept in mind: (1) Scanning information is information about past behavioral acts. Extrapolations should be treated with much care. (2) Scanning information is information disconnected from the situation in which the information came into being.

(3) When operational decision making would be based on scanning information, employees might loose interest.

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