Organizational Decision Making

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Organizational Decision Making
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Introduction:
Organizational decision-making is the determination of the choices that exist among
other alternative choices that are available to an individual who may be a business executive.
Decisions are taken at every step in businesses, and it is also considered to be one of the most
important function of management in an organization. Many managerial functions are carried
out through organizational decision making such as planning, organizing, directing and
staffing. Some of the decisions that are being made by the company may only have an effect
on the specific problem which it is related to, but some decisions impact the whole
company’s goal. When an individual is able to better understand the basic elements that
impact decision making in an organization, then only can they help the teams make better
plans. In order to fully understand why a particular alternative is strategically chosen for an
organization, the knowledge of the context relating to environment and organization is
required.
Discussion:
Jia, X., Chen, J., Mei, L., & Wu, Q. (2018). How leadership matters in organizational
innovation: a perspective of openness. Management Decision, 56(1), 6-25. DOI:
10.1108/MD-04-2017-0415
This article is in relation to the first contextual factor of organizational decision
making, which is organizational structure and governance. From this article, it is easy to
understand the importance of all kinds of leaders in an organization to enable the company
enhance its innovation capability. The article aims to deepen the knowledge of the readers
into understating how companies are able to achieve immense innovation performance and
able to maintain it with sustained success, and this is done by examination of top managers’
leadership styles. This examination of the leadership style help the readers understand what

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decisions are being made, and more importantly, how they are being made. This article’s
value comes from the exploration of the various different functions of transformational
leadership and its contribution in allowing a company to be able to make quality decisions in
order to enhance organizational innovation performance. The results of this study indicate
that it is vital for a company to have individuals that express transformational leadership,
rather than transactional, traits that will help the company in the long run. The results of the
study also suggest that a leader who is able to influence his/her followers and also act as a
mentor who empowers them will be the one who will be able to lead the company into having
better innovation results.
Haak-Saheem, W., & K. Darwish, T. (2014). The role of knowledge management in
creating a culture of learning: The case of Dubai Municipality. Management
Decision, 52(9), 1611-1629. DOI: 10.1108/MD-08-2013-0427
This article is addressing the second contextual factor of organizational decision
making, which is environmental forces. In this paper, the aim is to investigate how creating a
learning culture in a non-Western context is ultimately the role of the knowledge
management. The results of this study finds that if the top executives of the company are only
writing official statement and policies, it will not help the organization in creating a learning
environment in the workplace. This practical implication of this article would be that it is able
to provide organizational managers some guidance in being able to make effective decisions
under very uncertain situations in the institution. The article points out that it is the sole
purpose of the knowledge management is to be able to develop and decide on strategies
related to context of the company in order for the employees and the workplace to get a sense
of a learning environment. For managers reading this paper, it would make them realize that
there is a very close connection knowledge management and the developing of organizational
learning in the workplace, and since most of the new companies are participating in emerging