Sun Tzu's Decision Thought Research

Military Science of Sun Tzu as a military commander holy book, was respected by theancient and had great importance at home and abroad. It not only contains a profound militarythinking, but also contains rich and deep management thinking. As a Military science andmanagement science classic, decision-making thought runs through, which is the core and theessence of Military Science of Sun Tzu which has also become China’s earliest extant militarytreatise of the formation of the decision-making system of thought. Decision-making is theimportant functions of management, decision theory is the core content of modern management.This article made a more systematic discussion of the decision-making ideology of MilitaryScience of Sun Tzu by using the decision theory of modern management.This paper consists of introduction, body and conclusion. The introduction introduces thesignificance of the topic, research status, research ideas and methods. The first part combinedwith the modern management decision theory makes a general Introduction of decision-makingmeaning, types, procedures and principles; In the second part, the author analyzes the grandsonof awareness of the importance of the decision-making first of all, the second, according to thestatus of decision-making in war, authority and the controlled degree of different, induced andcombed the type of decision-making of Military Science of Sun Tzu, once again, fromgathering intelligence, developing decision-making, and implementation of the decision-makingprocess, summarized the decision-making process of Military Science of Sun Tzu; The thirdpart analyzed and summarized the characteristics of the decision-making system of thought ofMilitary Science of Sun Tzu. The decision-making idea of Military Science of Sun Tzu is toinclude a complete set of macro strategic decision-making and micro tactical decision-makingsystem, Systemic is its main feature, Scientific, rational, initiative and flexibility of its notablefeatures.Using the decision theory of modern management, systematically comb, induct andinterpret at the decision-making ideology of Military Science of Sun Tzu, it has importantsignificance on promoting interdisciplinary research of Military Science of Sun Tzu, expandingthe research field of the “Military Science of Sun Tzu” thinking, exploring the value of modernmanagement of the “Military Science of Sun Tzu” thinking, enriching modern westernmanagement related theory, learning from excellent traditional ideology and culture for servingcontemporary society.