Effective Decision Making

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Effective decision making

Introduction

Decisions made in any organizations determine the effectiveness and the productivity of that organization. Organization's strategies are made through decision making process. This paper is aimed at reviewing the steps that a leader should follow in making effective decision making. Additionally, it gives the benefits of effective decision making. Every organization has to have a process of decision making for it to be successful.

Decision making can be categorized into three different levels; the first level involves the decisions made by individuals on their lives. At this level, people look for solutions concerning the issues affecting their own lives, and not the lives of a group of people. Therefore, those decisions need not to be very rational. The second level is where a person makes decisions on behalf of a small group of people. According to Ernst (43), the group can choose a person who will be representing them in meetings and this leader is always responsible in making the decisions according to the agreement they have with their group. The group must have strategies that are followed by their leaders in making decisions which are supposed to promote the performance of the group.

Nezer and McNamara (10) assert that the decisions made at this level are more rational than those made in level one. The third and the last level of decision making comprise the decision made by the managers on behalf of the organization. These decisions are more rational and structured since they affect the productivity of the employees and the performance of the whole firm in the market. This study will focus on the effective decision making in general.

Leadership Decisions

Nezer and McNamara (12) point out that decision making is one of the works that any individual leading a group of people does in their day to day life. Some of these decisions use less...