Management Concepts & Organisational Behaviour - Decision Making
Barriers in Decision-Making
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In addition to the above factors, the various barriers in organization structure also influence the decision-making process.
Barriers in Decision-Making
In addition to the above factors, the various barriers in organization structure also influence the decision-making process. These barriers impede the process of identification of problem, its analysis and the development of the solution. Elbing has identified some of the important barriers that can block managerial effectiveness in choosing the most suitable decision. Some of them are listed below:
1. The tendency to respond to the problem instantaneously without proper information and thinking.
2. The tendency of human-beings to
evaluate a given problem with pre-conceived notions acts as a stumbling block
in understanding the real situation.
3. The tendency to resist new and innovative
solutions. This is known as
the love for ‘status-quo’.
6. Develop a sound system that can
supply adequate information for making decisions.
7. Encourage group leaders to
respond to a given situation and compare the pros and cons of the solutions
offered by the two groups for making an effective decision.
8. Encourage innovative thinking
among the subordinates so as to identify the crux of the problem without waste
of time and money.
9. When decisions of critical and
pivotal in nature are to be taken, encourage group thinking. For this, the
problem is to be presented to the group members first and they are asked to develop
as many solutions as possible in a free environment.
In addition to the above factors, the various barriers in organization structure also influence the decision-making process. These barriers impede the process of identification of problem, its analysis and the development of the solution. Elbing has identified some of the important barriers that can block managerial effectiveness in choosing the most suitable decision. Some of them are listed below:
1. The tendency to respond to the problem instantaneously without proper information and thinking.
Awareness of the above factors
will surely help the managers in arriving at pragmatic decisions. The following
suggestions can be offered to overcome the above barriers.
4. Avoid premature evaluation.
5. Initiate impartial probing by avoiding personal bias on the outcome.
4. Avoid premature evaluation.
5. Initiate impartial probing by avoiding personal bias on the outcome.
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