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Stories as a source of knowledge for decision-making
Kejzlarová, Nina ; Mládková, Ludmila (advisor) ; Dědina, Jiří (referee)
The aim of this Master thesis has been to summarize the current theoretical knowledge about the possibilities of using stories in management, especially their use as a tool for better and easier decision-making in a nowadays turbulent period, and to summarize the aspects explaining their positive contribution in this issue. In the practical part, the thesis focuses on exploring the use of stories by students of the University of Economics in Prague to decide on subjects and teachers. More specifically, the aim has been to find out how students are influenced by stories told by their colleagues in selection of subjects and teachers, how actively students use stories for obtaining and transmitting knowledge and information, in what form stories spread among students, which communication channel students prefer and why, what the quality of stories is and what the differences between Bachelor's and Master's students in those aspects are. The purpose of this research has been to demonstrate the power of stories in influencing individuals decision-making, applicable also to classical management in the corporate environment. As a research method, a combination of a quantitative and simple qualitative analysis in the form of the semi-structured questionnaire has been used. Based on the research, it has been found out that students do decide about subjects and teachers on the basis of others'stories, they do actively seek those stories and they do prefer personal narrative from friends, as this form has turned out to be considered as the most reliable for students, and also the one which will find the most consistent validation in what they will experience next. Students of Bachelor's and Master's studies differ in the selected communication channel and the activity with which they search for and use the stories.
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Difficulties with sharing knowledge using ICT tools
Václavík, Milan ; Řezníček, Václav (advisor) ; Smutný, Zdeněk (referee)
The Bachelor thesis focuses on the role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the process of sharing knowledge in school environment. The main objectives of the work are identifying difficulties that were caused during the process of sharing knowledge and proposing recommendations how to avoid them. The targets of the thesis are achieved by studying information sources, interviewing students and discharging participant observation. The thesis consists of several parts. The theoretical part aims to define terms like data, information and mainly knowledge. Sharing, as an activity through which knowledge is exchanged among people, is reflected from different points of view, including knowledge management, school environment, ICT perspectives. Afterwards, the thesis provides a description of ICT tools that are heavily used for knowledge sharing by students. Tools were also selected on the basis of interviews, which is another important part of the work. Research shows that main difficulties in sharing knowledge with ICT lie in quality of knowledge which is just shared. Therefore, suggested recommendations mainly relate to these issues. Primary purpose of the thesis is to provide guidance to students how to effectively share knowledge with the aid of ICT tools.
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Sharing of knowledge and preferences among imperfect Bayesian decision makers
Kárný, Miroslav ; Guy, Tatiana Valentine
Bayesian decision theory provides a strong theoretical basis for a single-participant decision making under uncertainty, that can be extended to multi-participant problems. However Bayesian decision theory assumes unlimited abilities of a participant to probabilistically model participant´s environment and to optimise decision-making strategy. The paper proposes a methodology for sharing of knowledge and strategies among participants, that helps to overcome the non-realistic assumption on participant´s unlimited abilities.
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