Handbook Of Reward And Decision Making

This book addresses a fundamental question about the nature of behavior: how does the brain process reward and makes decisions when facing multiple options? The book presents the most recent and compelling lesion, neuroimaging, electrophysiological and computational studies, in combination with hormonal and genetic studies, which have led to a clearer understanding of neural mechanisms behind reward and decision making. The neural bases of reward and decision making processes are of great interest to scientists because of the fundamental role of reward in a number of behavioral processes (such as motivation, learning and cognition) and because of their theoretical and clinical implications for understanding dysfunctions of the dopaminergic system in several neurological and psychiatric disorders (schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, drug addiction, pathological gambling, ...). Comprehensive coverage of approaches to studying reward and decision making, including primate neurophysiology and brain imaging studies in healthy humans and in various disorders, genetic and hormonal influences on the reward system and computational models. Covers clinical implications of process dysfunction (e.g., schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, eating disorders, drug addiction, pathological gambling) Uses multiple levels of analysis, from molecular mechanisms to neural systems dynamics and computational models. " This is a very interesting and authoritative handbook by some of the most outstanding investigators in the field of reward and decision making ", Professor Edmund T. Rolls, Oxford Center for Computational Neuroscience, UK

Handbook of Reward and Decision Making addresses a fundamental question about the nature of behavior: How does the brain process reward and make decisions when faced with multiple options? The neural bases of reward and decision-making processes are of critical interest to neuroscientists because of the fundamental role that reward plays in a number of behavioral processes and because of their theoretical and clinical implications for understanding dysfunctions of the dopaminergic system in numerous neurological and psychiatric disorders. Organized into five parts—ranging from basic anatomical and electrophysiological findings on the contribution of specific brain structures to decision-making processes, to brain disorders involving dysfunctions of decision making and the reward system, to computational approaches combining Bayesian, game-theory, and neuroeconomics models—this updated and expanded edition provides a comprehensive framework for understanding the neuroscience of reward and decision-making processes. Provides comprehensive coverage of approaches to studying reward and decision making, including primate neurophysiology, brain-imaging studies in healthy humans and in various disorders, genetic and hormonal influences on the reward system, and computational models Discusses clinical implications of process dysfunction, including schizophrenia, Parkinson’s disease, eating disorders, drug addiction, and pathological gambling Uses multiple levels of analysis, from molecular mechanisms to neural-systems dynamics and computational models Features fully revised and new chapters from the top international researchers in the field, including new coverage of neuroimaging humans, impulsivity addiction, addiction neuroimaging, and neuroeconomics

A practical handbook designed to provide guidance on the approaches that can be adopted in developing and managing reward strategies, policies and processes. Aligned to the CIPD's professional standards for employee reward, this book is an essential aid for students and lecturers as well as a practical aid for those concerned with developing and managing reward systems. Included is a lecturer's CD-Rom resource providing screens of key points to accompany the book. The book is written in a highly readable style and contains many check lists, diagrams and summaries.

Decision making arises when we wish to select the best possible course of action from a set of alternatives. With advancements of the digital technologies, it is easy, and almost instantaneous, to gather a large volume of information and/or data pertaining to a problem that we want to solve. For instance, the world-wi- web is perhaps the primary source of information and/or data that we often turn to when we face a decision making problem. However, the information and/or data that we obtain from the real world often are complex, and comprise various kinds of noise. Besides, real-world information and/or data often are incomplete and ambiguous, owing to uncertainties of the environments. All these make decision making a challenging task. To cope with the challenges of decision making, - searchers have designed and developed a variety of decision support systems to provide assistance in human decision making processes. The main aim of this book is to provide a small collection of techniques stemmed from artificial intelligence, as well as other complementary methodo- gies, that are useful for the design and development of intelligent decision support systems. Application examples of how these intelligent decision support systems can be utilized to help tackle a variety of real-world problems in different - mains, e. g. business, management, manufacturing, transportation and food ind- tries, and biomedicine, are also presented. A total of twenty chapters, which can be broadly divided into two parts, i. e.

Armstrong's Handbook of Reward Management Practice is the definitive guide to understanding, developing and implementing effective reward. It is aimed at both HR practitioners, involved in employee reward, as well as students, who need to understand the importance of reward and how it can be successfully applied across organizations. The book is closely aligned to the CIPD's new standard in reward management and is supported by online resources for both lecturers and students. This new edition contains new research conducted by E-Reward, as well as brand new case studies of international companies, who are effectively using reward to improve performance. It includes practical guidance on designing reward for all levels of employee as well as for teams and the organization

Based on the authors' experience, research and benchmarking activities, this definitive book explains that reward management is about performance - of individuals, teams and the whole organization. It examines in detail the processes and various approaches that can be adopted to achieve and reward outstanding skill and competence levels in the workplace. Comprehensive and highly practical in its approach, it takes a strategic perspective and addresses the wide gap that exists between theory and practice, with a focus on the implications for practitioners. This revised fifth edition includes new and updated chapters on age discrimination, bonus schemes, recognition schemes and pensions.

This e-book brings together scholars in both the neurosciences and organizational sciences who have adopted various approaches to study the cognitive mechanisms mediating the social behavior that we see within organizations. Such an approach has been termed by ourselves, and others, as ‘organisational cognitive neuroscience’. In recent years there has been a veritable increase in studies that have explored the cognitive mechanisms driving such behaviors, and much progress has been made in understanding the neural underpinnings of processes such as financial exchange, risk awareness and even leadership. However, while these studies are informative and add to our understanding of human cognition they fall short of providing evidence-based recommendations for practice. Specifically, we address the broader issue of how the neuroscientific study of such core social behaviors can be used to improve the very way that we work. To address these gaps in our understanding the chapters in this book serve as a platform that allows scholars in both the neurosciences and the organizational sciences to highlight the work that spans across these two fields. The consolidation of these two fields also serves to highlight the utility of a singular organizational cognitive neuroscience. This is a fundamentally important outcome of the book as the application of neuroscience to address economically relevant behaviors has seen a variety of fields evolve in their own right, such as neuromarketing, neuroeconomics and so forth. The use of neuro-scientific technologies,in particular fMRI, has indeed led to a bewildering (and somewhat suffocating) proliferation of new approaches, however, the speed of such developments demands that we must proceed carefully with such ventures or risk some fundamental mistakes. The book that you now hold will consolidates these new neuroscience based approaches and in doing so highlight the importance of this approach in helping us to understand human social behavior in general. Taken together the chapters provide a framework for scholars within the neurosciences who wish to explore the further the opportunities that the study of organisational behavior may provide.

This handbook provides a critical review and user’s guide to conducting and reporting process tracing studies of decision making. Each chapter covers a specific method that is presented and reviewed by authors who are experts in the method’s application to decision research. The book ultimately illustrates and presents a multi-method approach and is essential reading for graduate students and researchers wishing to undertake such studies on decision making.