Accession Number:

ADA210443

Title:

Designing an Organization in a Hypothesis Testing Framework

Descriptive Note:

Technical rept.

Corporate Author:

MASSACHUSETTS INST OF TECH CAMBRIDGE LAB FOR INFORMATION AND DECISION SYSTEMS

Personal Author(s):

• Papastavrou, Jason D.
• Pothiawala, Javed
• Athans, Michael

Report Date:

1989-06-01

Pagination or Media Count:

22.0

Abstract:

This paper deals with problems of quantitative organizational design. We endorse the development of a Normative Decision Theory for the quantitative study of distributed organizations. We suggest that Hypothesis Testing is an appropriate paradigm for this framework. To demonstrate this, we present numerical interests for a team consisting of two decision makers DMs which performs binary hypothesis testing and study the effect of different communication protocols we show that near-optimal performance can be achieved with few communications bits. We summarize some other organizational design problems we have studied and present some tentative conclusions and suggestions for future research.

Descriptors:

• *HYPOTHESES
• *ORGANIZATIONS
• BINARY ARITHMETIC
• DECISION THEORY
• DECISION MAKING
• TEST AND EVALUATION
• DISTRIBUTION

Subject Categories:

• Administration and Management
• Statistics and Probability

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE