ORGANIZATIONAL DECISION – MAKING MANNERS
ORGANIZATIONAL DECISION – MAKING MANNERS

Summary/Abstract: This research tries to answer the following questions: what is the mechanism of decision-making process?, which are the advantages and the disadvantages of the collective decision?, how does the uncertainty influence the decision-making process? and what strategies can be used to make decisions at organizational level? The main argument of the research is to discover the way a small group of individuals decide for larger communities and especially if the individuals’ interests and rights are taken into account. The research is based on sociometric method, meaning a sociological survey and a sociological observation, and the way of relating to reality is through direct inquiry. Research strategy includes qualitative and quantitative data. At the top level management of an organization, decisions influence the evolution of the entire organization, of its members and beneficiaries, as well as the relations with the external environment. Consequently, a number of strategies used in the organizational decision-making process, such as: the rational model, the limited-rational model, the unstructured model, the incremental model, and the "garbage can" model. These were differentiated taking into account a number of criteria: the information available, uncertainty/ certainty of the environment in which the decision is made and the decision procedure.

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