problem seeking

Examples of problem seeking in the following topics:

• Types of Decisions

  • Three approaches to decision making are avoiding, problem solving and problem seeking.
  • Accordingly, three decision-making processes are known as avoiding, problem solving, and problem seeking.
  • On occasion, the process of problem solving brings the focus or scope of the problem itself into question.
  • We can regard this activity as problem seeking because decision makers must return to the starting point and respecify the issue or problem they want to address.
  • Differentiate between the three primary decision-making approaches: avoiding, problem solving, and problem seeking

• Project-Based Learning in the Classroom: What does it involve?

  • Increased problem-solving ability: Project-Based Learning encourages learners to engage in complex and ill-defined contexts.
  • From the beginning, learners identify their topics and problems, then seek possible solutions.
  • By participating in both independent work and collaboration, learners improve their problem solving skills thereby developing their critical thinking skills.

• Introduction to Microeconomics

  • Archeological and written records of human existence suggest that obtaining the material means to satisfy wants has been a perpetual problem.
  • The evolution of processes to solve the provisioning problem takes place in a social context.
  • In the last part of the 19th century, "political economy" became "economics. " Since that time, economics has been frequently defined as "the study of how scarce resources are allocated to satisfy unlimited wants. " As a professional discipline, economics is often regarded as a decision science that seeks optimal solutions to technical allocation problems.

• The role of the manager

  • According to lean-thinking advocate Jim Womack, the manager's role in lean thinking is to eagerly embrace the role of problem-solver.
  • This means visiting actual situations, asking about performance issues, seeking out root causes, and showing respect for lower-level managers (as well as colleagues) by asking hard questions until good answers emerge.
  • Instead, the role of the higher-level manager is to help the lower-level manager tackle problems through delegation and dialogue by involving everyone involved with the problem.
  • The lean law of organizational life is that problems can only be solved where they exist, in conversation with the people whose actions are contributing to the problem (which requires support, encouragement and relentless pressure from the higher lean manager).
  • Lastly, the lean manager knows that no problem is solved forever.

• Evolutionary Psychology

  • Evolutionary psychology seeks to understand human behavior as the result of psychological adaptation and natural selection.
  • It seeks to identify which human psychological traits are evolved adaptations—that is, the functional products of natural selection.
  • Proponents of evolutionary psychology suggest that it seeks to bridge the division between the human social sciences (such as psychology and sociology) and the natural sciences (such as biology, chemistry, and physics).
  • Different neural mechanisms in the brain were developed to solve problems in humanity's evolutionary past; in many regards, humans can be considered to have Stone Age minds.
  • Most processes of the brain are unconscious; most mental problems that seem easy to solve are actually extremely difficult problems that are solved unconsciously through complicated actions within the brain.

• Coping with Stress

  • Coping is the process of spending conscious effort and energy to solve personal and interpersonal problems.
  • In the case of stress, coping mechanisms seek to master, minimize, or tolerate stress and stressors that occur in everyday life.
  • The three most common distinctions are appraisal-focused, problem-focused, and emotion-focused coping strategies.
  • Problem-focused strategies aim to deal with the cause of the problem or stressor.
  • Examples of adaptive coping include seeking social support from others (social coping) and attempting to learn from the stressful experience (meaning-focused coping).

• Evaluating Alternatives

  • During this stage, consumers evaluate all of their product and brand options on a scale of attributes which have the ability to deliver the benefit that the customer is seeking .
  • Unlike routine problem solving, extended or extensive problem solving comprises external research and the evaluation of alternatives.
  • Whereas, routine problem solving is low-involvement, inexpensive, and has limited risk if purchased, extended problem solving justifies the additional effort with a high-priced or scarce product, service, or benefit (e.g., the purchase of a car).
  • Likewise, consumers use extensive problem solving for infrequently purchased, expensive, high-risk, or new goods or services.
  • In order for a marketing organization to increase the likelihood that their brand is part of the evoked set for many consumers, they need to understand what benefits consumers are seeking and specifically, which attributes will be most influential to their decision-making process.

• Sources of Social Change

  • Social movement theories seek to explain how social movements form and develop.
  • Second, it attempts to address the free-rider problem.
  • Diagnostic frame: the movement organization frames the problem—what they are critiquing
  • Prognostic frame: the movement organization frames the desirable solution to the problem
  • Diagnostic framing of the problem involves an understanding what the problem actually is - what specifically needs to be solved.

• Information Search

  • During this stage, a consumer who recognizes a specific problem or need will then likely be persuaded to search for information, whether it be internally or externally.
  • This is also when the customer aims to seek the value in a prospective product or service.
  • External research is conducted when a person has no prior knowledge about a product, which then leads them to seek information from personal sources (e.g. word of mouth from friends/family ) and/or public sources (e.g. online forums, consumer reports) or marketer dominated sources (e.g. sales persons, advertising) especially when a person's previous experience is limited or deemed inefficient.

• The Diffusion of Innovation

  • The diffusion of innovation theory seeks to explain how, why, and at what rate new ideas and technology spread through cultures.
  • The diffusion of innovation is a theory that seeks to explain how, why, and at what rate new ideas and technology spread through cultures.
  • Social system - According to Rogers, a social system is "a set of interrelated units that are engaged in joint problem solving to accomplish a common goal. "