Summary:
As human beings we have the capacity to make decisions in order to achieve our own goals. Some people just try to do a plan to make a decision, Planned Decision, and some others just let that time and situations make their based in order to make any kind of consideration, Non Programmed Decisions.
We have 3 models of decision making which are:
· Rational Model: This talks about how every single person acts according to their objectives and optimize their goals. It is about thinking on the best way in order to minimize the risk and know what he wants.
· Bounded Rational Decision Making: This recognizes that there are always some limits when you are choosing an option and how this selection can satisfy your needs.
· Garbage Can Model: This is when you make a decision random, trying to choose the best one without having any kind of knowledge on the risk. Time is the most important fact here.
Very time that you are going to make a decision you are going to have a percentage of risk and if your risk is higher the remuneration would be even bigger, but what does that a person thinks about taking or not risk? There are some issues which contribute to build an idea and try to get a decision which should be not only because you have a goal but that needs to me ethical, so most of the people should agree with it:
· Individual variables: Some of them are: Age, Religion, Culture, Beliefs and Gender.
· Situational variables: There are:
a. Job context, this is about the environment in which every single person works and how he can feel about it.b. Organizational context: It is the system of norms, values and expectation that an organization has and can influence the members.
c. Environment external to the organization: This is the environment outside the organization. How each member develops his behavior with the external world
Decision making is always influenced by two different options which are: Group thinking and Individual thinking. In the first one you have to take into account that not everyone think in the same way and sometimes the members can be confused by the leader, so they think in the same way the leader does although they don’t want to. And the second one depends basically on our own beliefs and your goals.
Question:
What are the impacts of culture in terms of mixed-motive decision making?
The impacts of culture when trying to reach a goal and the group or organization has a mixed-motive is very important because the perspective, for example, of what is good and what is wrong could vary on the way their culture showed them those concepts.
We can find some internal conflicts or inconvenient that can difficult or even destroy the decision making, because it is supposed that when you make a good decision this everyone should agree and try to cover the common welfare.
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