Decision Making: A Management Research Project Proposal for BU7002

This project proposal delves into the critical significance of decision-making within organizations. The research aims to analyze the benefits of appropriate decision-making processes, evaluate the roles of leaders in this context, and explore how effective decisions can lead to competitive advantages. The proposal outlines the research questions, objectives, and background, emphasizing the need for well-informed leadership and ethical considerations in decision-making. It also includes a literature review that highlights the importance of decision-making in various management functions, such as business selection, resource utilization, and the overall success of an organization. The research underscores the need for timely and well-considered decisions to drive organizational success and achieve desired goals and objectives.

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The importance of appropriate decision making in an organization
Introduction
In this current society, quite a number of organizations have been able to realize some of
the positive outcomes that are likely to emerge within their jurisdictions as a result of adequately
implementing different forms of decision making processes. Moreover, the use of decision
making processes within an organization tends to involve a series of techniques that are carried
out in an appropriate and sober manner. When talking about appropriate decision making within
an organization, this clearly indicates some of the appropriate steps and decisions that are taken
into account by a particular organization in order to make reasonable conclusions pertaining
various issues that are encountered by the organization within the surrounding environment.
Organizational leaders being among the major personnel within any given organization are
always expected to come up with the right set of decision making techniques in their respective
organizations thereby making it much easier for them to move towards the required direction.
Various organizations in this current world have been able to implement a vast range of
decision making processes within their respective boundaries majorly to attain specific set of
objectives. Making decisions is not just an easy thing the way it sounds to be but instead, it
involve a series of procedures that are being incorporated together to come up with one of the
most impressive results that can easily develop the potential of pushing an organization to the
level that is required (Bryman and Bell, 2015). Moreover, when good decisions are made within
an organization, there are higher chances that the organization will be impacted on in a positive
way. Similarly, when an organizations decides to come up with a series of decisions that are not
necessary, there is a high probability that the entire organization is likely to face a series of
negative impacts that will even scale down the rate of its performance when it comes to offering

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one of the most competitive advantage conditions within a series of market platforms that is
known to constitute of different types of customers.
Aims and objectives
This research aims towards conducting a deep analysis in relation to how an appropriate
decision making process is capable of benefiting a given organization in terms of attaining most
of its future goals within the stipulated time period.
Objectives
The whole research proposal is focused towards coming up with a series of objectives
that are capable of clearly defining what it is all about together with the direction that it intends
to take in order to obtain a certain combination of results (Kang & Snell, 2017). They majorly
include the following;
(1) Evaluating some of the importance that is likely to emerge within an organization as a
result of appropriate implementation of decision making techniques.
(2) Create awareness across various organizations on how decision making can be
implemented
(3) Carry out an analysis on the roles played by leaders when it comes to making appropriate
decisions within their respective organizations.
Research questions
The following are some of the research questions known to be connected to the entire
research proposal;
(1) What are some of the benefits of appropriate decision making within an organization?

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(2) To what extent have leaders participated in making decisions within their respective
organizations?
(3) Are there any chances of decision making processes coming up with different conditions
of competitive advantage within an organization?
Background of the study
The creation of appropriate decision making conditions within an organization is a crucial
and very sensitive step that should always be given the first priority in almost each and every
organization that is known to be working hard towards a specific direction (Hofacker &
Belanche, 2016). According to research, many organizations have not been able to put much
focus in the way they are capable of making decisions pertaining certain issues that they tend to
encounter almost in their daily experiences. Due to this, issues involving poor decision making
processes across different organizations has been taking place at a higher rate over the past years
(Ferris & Judge, 2016). Additionally, one of the major factors that have been able to contribute
towards these poor decision making processes across these organizations is lack of appropriate
and well experienced leaders who are well versed with how leadership strategies are capable of
working within an organization. As a result of this situation, this research is therefore focused
towards highlighting some of the important benefits that are likely to emerge when a lot of focus
is directed towards the side of side of appropriate decision making (Birdi et al., 2016).
Additionally, building appropriate and reliable environmental conditions within organization in
order to allow quite a number of important decisions to be given the first priority requires the
collaboration of various personalities both at the internal level of the entire organization together
with its external level (Huang et al., 2016). In most cases, the external level will involve a full
participation of the customers throughout the entire process. Just like developing good;

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leadership conditions, appropriate decision making requires all the rules and regulations of an
organization to be strictly followed. Moreover, choosing the right thing during the process of
making decisions within an organization will be able to determine the nature and level of that
organization in the coming years (Hecklau et al., 2016). Over the past, right before the
implementation of decision making procedures within an organization, leaders within many
organizations have always been chosen according to the potentiality within their leadership
boundaries. Currently, thighs have totally changed and potentiality is no longer a major issue in
this situation (Hofacker et al., 2016). More focus is now being directed towards the level of
understanding of a given individual when it comes to getting exposed to quite a number of
decision making strategies. People have started realizing some of the benefits that are likely to
emerge as a result of putting much focus in this parameter (Chuang & Liao, 2010).
Due to the rising level of competitions that has always been experienced across many
organizations, many organizational leaders are currently on the verge of implementing quite a
number of decision making techniques that are likely to make them stay different from the rest of
the other organizations most so the ones that have not invested much is this sector (Brewster,
Wood & Brookes, 2017). Due to this, most of the organizational have been able to develop that
urge of offering competitive advantages and being able to satisfy nearly all their respective
customers through the use of adequate and reliable decision making strategies (Huselid, 2016).
Ethical considerations have emerged to be among the major pillars that have been able to support
reasonable decision making within organizations over the pat periods (Martin & Javalgi, 2016).
Once an organization clearly understands where it wants to go in relation to all its goals and
objectives, there is a high probability that the entire organization will fully participate in different
aspects of making decisions thus providing it with a good opportunity to evaluate how it plans to

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handle different matters. Moreover, decision making within an organization is not one way
traffic but instead, it is an act of combining different ideas from various personalities and using
those ideas to come up with a final conclusion in terms of the decisions that are taken into
account (Guest, 2011).
Literature review
Importance of appropriate decision making in an organization
Making of decisions within an organization is an important function of the management sector in
an organization simple because it is spread all over to various management activities within an
organization’s boundaries. Interestingly, it is always required in almost every sphere that is
known to be existing within the organization (Godey et al. 2016). As a result of this, the
importance of decision making when it comes to issues associated with business management is
very necessary in almost all the organizations. At the same time, even some of the basic
functions that are attached to management cannot always be performed without including
different aspects of decision making in the whole process. As a result of this, the foundation of
making different continuous decisions will always be the life of any given manager. The
following are some of the importance of decision making that is likely to be encountered within
an organization irrespective of its goals and objectives;
 Leads to an appropriate selection and continuous operation of a given business- various
essential decisions are normally required to be taken into consideration before staring any
business. Different decisions are always required most so when quite a number of
alternatives and resources for any work that are undertaken becomes scarce. This

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alternative appears to be the best since it is likely to come up with one of the most
profitable outcomes within an organization (Birkinshaw, Bresman & Håkanson, 2016).
 Helps in the determination and achievement of various objectives- One of the basic
operations to establish and to operate any given business is to make sure that all the goals
and objectives are achieved in a reasonable manner (Järvinen & Taiminen, 2016). The
determination of objectives in itself appears to be a high level of decision making process
within an organization. At this point, all the future activities together with various types
of modalities are always decided according to the objectives (Katsikeas et al., 2016).
 Leads towards an appropriate utilization of all the available resources- Normally, the best
and maximum utilization of both the physical together with quite a number of human
resources of production sustainability normally depends upon the effectiveness of the
entire decision that is made within a particular organization. If all the decisions are more
practical and essential, the maximum exploration of different types of resources together
with the reduction of different conditions of leakages will be quite easier to handle.
Moreover, the level of productivity may also be scaled up to the next level.
 Execution of different forms of managerial functions- The making of different types of
decisions within an organization will always appear to be among the most essential key
management functions. There is no activity that is likely to be carried out within any
organization without a proper implementation of decision making across various sectors.
Due to this, decisions making is crucial for nearly all the activities that are being
undertaken within any given organization and as a result, all the management functions
are viewed to be totally dependent on different aspects of decision making (Saunders,
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 Decision making leads to be success of the entire organization- It is always believed that
good decisions that are timely are likely to yield success for a particular organization and
at the same time; the bad decisions are likely to push a given organization to some peril
conditions. Due to this, appropriate decision making is more essential for all the
organizations since it is known to have the capability of providing momentum to the
organizations themselves by offering a continuous operation and also being able to
provide higher outcomes that are likely to be accompanied by low cost (Mariani, Di
Felice & Mura, 2016).
 Measures the success of managers- Coming up with more realistic decisions that can be
easily understood, provides one of the best opportunities to measure the success of the
mangers who are attached to them. In most occasions, most of the decisions that are
always taken by the managers normally appear to be very important when it comes to the
achievement of an organization’s goals and objectives since all their success of failures
fully depends on these decisions. If a particular organization advances to higher levels at
a faster rate in order to attain all its desired goals and objectives, all its managers will be
viewed as intelligent kind of personalities who are much capable and efficient within
their respective work boundaries (Mishra & Modi, 2016).
 Determination of the policies of a given business- This appears to be the final importance
that is likely to come about due to an appropriate implementation of decision making
within an organization (Jabbour & de Sousa Jabbour, 2016). In many occasions, decision
making normally appears to be of distinct importance in as far as the determination of a
given set of policies within a business is concerned. One of the major reasons is that the
entire management has to come up with quite a number of reports that are dealing with

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both the economic and non-economic issues associated with a business. These reports are
further known to present different types of information regarding the objectives together
with different forms of other activities that are connected to various departments
(Nguyen, Thai & Dinh, 2016).
Research philosophy
Methodology
Questionnaires- The entire research proposal is likely to make good use of the questionnaires
that will be distributed to a specific group of targeted personalities across different organization.
These targeted personalities majorly include the employees together with the employers of
certain chosen organizations. Each one of them will be given the research questions in form of a
questionnaire and they will be expected to provide their own answers to all the questions based
on what they known in terms of decision, king within their organizations (Lemon & Verhoef,
2016).
Surveys- The whole research proposal is also likely to make good use of surveys across different
organizations where most of the targeted personalities will be given the survey questions through
which they will be expected to respond to all the questions in s systematic manner that can
positively contribute to the research by coming with a wide range of reliable information that is
likely to play a crucial role within the analysis stage. Two different surveys will be carried out
after a total of two weeks. Al the statistical data that will be obtained from the survey methods
will be well documented through the use of different types of computation techniques that will
help that will help to come up with appropriate an accurate graphs in the analysis stage.

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Approach to data collection
In order to make sure that accurate data is appropriately collected, this research proposal
aims towards making good use of quantitative data analysis. The entire analysis will majorly
depend on the use of statistical data to carry out certain comparisons and even go as far as
predicting different situations in relation to how they are likely to take place in the coming
future. Additionally, depending on quantitative data analysis, this will provide one of the best
opportunities for the research to be able to carry out certain comparisons of various variables and
be able to determine how they are capable of relating with one another (Nestle, 2016). At the
same time, the research will also made good use of a wide range of ethical considerations most
so when gaining access to different targeted groups of personality. This is a strategy that majorly
aims towards making them feel that they are safe as much as possible during the entire research
processes. On the other hand, each and every method of data collection that is attached to the
research will be given the first priority where all the steps associated with all these methods will
be carried out in a systematic manner without making any assumptions regarding how they
should be handled to come up with a certain results. Moreover, the whole research will also be
aiming towards carrying out its operations according to the required rules and regulations
thereby making sure that order are well maintained right from the beginning of the research up to
the very end in order to obtain the right combination of information that can be further used
during the analysis process to fully determine the entire outcome of the research. Random
sampling will also be carried out to determine the organizations that are likely to be used within
the research project (Hudson et al., 2016).
Approach to analysis and write up

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The analysis stage being one of the most fundamental stages within this research
proposal, it will require a totally different approach in order to obtain the correct set of
information that can be fully relied upon by various types of organizations. Moreover, right after
the collection of various types of data through the use of the aforementioned data collection
techniques, the entire analysis of all the collected data will be perfectly one through the
comparison of various types of variables and how they are capable of relating with one another
in the entire process. The entire data will then be analyzed by the use of different data analysis
techniques that are computerized to make sure that accuracy is well maintained right from the
beginning. It is from this analysis stage that various types of representation graphs will be drawn
to represent different types of information that can be well interpreted for any future use. In order
to make sure that the whole analysis stage is carried out perfectly, various conditions involving
assumptions will be avoided as much as possible to make sure that the accuracy of the whole
research is well addressed right from the beginning up to the very end. At the same time, the data
analysis will depend of quite a number of events that have been able to take place over the past
period within different types of organizations thereby providing one of the best opportunities to
perfectly analyze all their current situations.
Research schedule
Task Start date End date Duration
Identifying the problem 10/1 10/3 2
Literature review 10/3 10/6 3
Collection of data 10/6 10/9 3
Analyzing the data 10/9 10/14 5

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Literature
review
Analyzing
the data
10/1 10/3 10/5 10/7 10/9 10/11 10/13 10/15
Gantt Chart
Ethical considerations
As a researcher, there are a vast range of ethical considerations that must be include
within the research proposal to make sure that it is capable of addressing all its future objectives
at the right time. One of the first and major ethical considerations is the issue of privacy. There
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when dealing with different types of respondents. This will make sure that they are well
informed that the information they are providing will always remain private as much as possible
and shall never be shared with any other party without the consents of the respondents
themselves. Through this, they will be able to feel very much secure. Another ethical
consideration that the research will be able to address is confidentiality. This clearly indicate that
any type of identifying information will not be made available to or even accessed by any given
personality but only the program coordinator is the one who will be allowed to gain access to the
information. Moreover, another issue of ethical consideration that will be given much focus in
this research is the assessment of relevant information only. As a result of this the researchers
will only be allowed to gain access to those components that are of relevance to the research.
Technical part
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Fig 1: The performance of an organization as a result of decision making implementation

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The above statistics indicate how an organization is likely to perform right after the
implementation of decision making within its boundaries. In the first year, the performance of
the organization is likely to scale up to a total of 65% thus showing a positive progress that is
capable of benefiting the whole organization across different sectors. At this point, the
organization shall have started reaching out to different customers who are located in different
places. Come the end of the second year, the performance shall have again moved to the next
level of an approximated percentage of 78%. At this point, most of its operations will be carried
out in a smooth way and there will be a strong relationship that exists between the employees
and all the employers within that organization. Finally, the end of the third year will be able to
indicate one of the most tremendous progresses so far, at this point the organizations
performance will be at its maximum level and nearly all the customers will be satisfied according
to all the products and services that will be supplied to the as a result of appropriate decision
making that shall have occurred within the organizational boundaries. At the same time, the
organization will also be able to offer one of the most competitive advantages to its rivals.

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