BUS102 Management- Organisational Culture and Decision Making

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You are to research and analyse all of the following 3 questions:

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Organisational Culture and Decision Making

ii) Rationality in Decision Making

Decision making process is based on either of the two models. It may follow both the models as well, in need. Since the organisations follow some certain rules and systems, decisions are made according to the systematic workflow of the respective organisations. This certain procedure is called the Standard Operation Procedure (SOP). The managers while making decisions cannot go beyond the SOP model set by the organisation. On the other hand, rationality in decision making is done through the four step management of the managers. These are:

2: Definition of Organisational Culture

According to John Minner (2015), organisational culture is a disciplinary aspect of social science that is similar to other studies. It utilises the scientific method in order to establish the truth and validate the theories related to it.  However, the concept of organisational culture is closely associated with the business organisations where the employees and the senior managers are linked together in order to follow certain operational rules and ethical disciplines. Though there is no exact boundary of the concept, the understanding of organisational behaviour is generally encompassed by the employee behaviour in a business organisation. this is not at all different from the social culture. Organisational culture is a set of rules or behavioural standards that are followed in order maintain distinctive criteria (Zsambok and Klein 2014).  

This is a shared concept of working rules, methods, personality and techniques that pulls every working individual of an organisation under the same roof so as to ensure employee engagement with the company. The culture of an organisation has distinctive characteristic traits from the other. It helps the employee mould according to the thought process the organisation is set to go forward with. There are certain key elements of organisational culture. These are;

i) It unites the organisational members thus developing a sense of shared responsibility

ii) It enables a sense of differentiation of skills.

The leaders or the managers of an organisation do not follow the planning model as it has the possibility to vary at times. According to Haiss (2013), planning method in a business model has now become obsolete as the quality of instant decision making process is prioritised by the leaders. It can thus be said the planning method is going to be rejected by the managers in near futures while making decision or while proceeding with the operational methods.

Reference:

Ford, R.C. and Richardson, W.D., 2013. Ethical decision making: A review of the empirical literature. In Citation classics from the Journal of Business Ethics (pp. 19-44). Springer Netherlands.

Zsambok, C.E. and Klein, G., 2014. Naturalistic decision making. Psychology Press.