Decision Making.

Decision Making stands for Power to make decision

and power to manage.
According to Webster’s Dictionary, “It is an act of
determining in one’s own mind upon an opinion or
course of action.”
According to Terry, “Decision Making is all about
the selection of alternatives from two or more
possible alternatives.”
In short Decision Making means Process of policy
formation or to come to a conclusion.
Aspects of Decision Making
For understanding the process of Decision Making it
is required to examine these aspects:
Personal differences among individuals who make
some decisive and others indecisive. It means they
can not be firm on some decisions.
Role of Knowledge plays a important part in the
Decision Making. The careful accumulation of
detailed facts, analysis, and interpretation, the use of
broad concepts of human nature- all these elements
enter into decision making in varying degrees.
Limitations- personal and institutional- which
circumscribe decision making.
Bases of decision making
Seckeler-Hudson enumerates 12 factors which must
be considered in Decision Making—Legal Limitations,
Budget, Mores(traditions), Facts, History, Internal
Morale, Future as anticipated, Superior, Pressure
groups, Staff, Nature of progaramme and the
Subordinates.
Types of Decision Making
Active & Passive Decisions.
Basis & Routine Decisions.
Organisational & Personal decisions.
Programmed & Non-Programmed Decisions.
Problems of Decision Making
Involvement in Routine i.e. the day to day routine
problems tend to dominate and the long term
decisions are either avoided or postponed.
Deciding the Problem. As the number of problem
increases, they become more complicated to solve.
Problems of Decision Making
Deciding the Right decision. It would be difficult in a
large scale organization to point to a single decision
of some consequences without being compromised.
So its very difficult to choose to right criteria for the
decisions.
Biasness. It means a swaying influence or undue
leaning to one side.