Organizational decision makers try to make rational decisions but often fail Why is this
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Organizational decision makers try to make rational decisions but often fail. Why is this?
When organisational decision makers make decisions, the decision can represent an individual's decision or the decision of the entire group. Individual decision makers can be a single person whereas multiple decision makers can be groups where all the members have a say in the decisions, teams where members support a single decision maker or where global agreement is needed. Organisations normally make decisions in groups in order to generate more ideas and it is also easier to evaluate opinions as well as catch errors. Besides, it also allows one to hide from individual responsibility. Despite making rational decisions as a group, these decisions sometimes still fail. In this essay, I will discuss why organisational decision makers try to make rational decisions but often fail.
Decision making is fundamental to organisation and it provides a means of control and of coherence in systems. Decisions can be programmed or non-programmed decisions...