Judgment and Decision-Making Activities of Government Executives as Described by Superiors and Co-Workers

Garlie A. Forehand and Harold Guetzkow
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Garlie A. Forehand: Center for Programs in Government Administration, University of Chicago
Harold Guetzkow: Center for Programs in Government Administration, University of Chicago

Management Science, 1962, vol. 8, issue 3, 359-370

Abstract: Concepts which may be useful in research on executive performance stem from a variety of sources and are expressed in a variety of vocabularies. Administrators themselves have developed a complex jargon which is likely to be as mystifying to the social scientists as is the latter's to them. Administrative theorists often formulate variables in the language of psychology [10] in order to pose problems and suggest hypotheses for study. The translation of ideas from practitioner's lore or administrative theory into behavioral terms amenable to measurement, however, raises a host of conceptual and methodological questions. Some of these questions are confronted in the present study. It is one of a series of papers intended to develop a general theory of "executive judgment" and to permit study of its susceptibility to educational modification. An a priori analysis of the concept of executive judgment which provides the rationale of these studies is presented elsewhere [Guetzkow, H., G. A. Forehand. 1961. A research strategy for partial knowledge useful in the selection of executives. R. Tagiuri, ed. Research Needs in Executive Selection. Harvard Business School, Boston.].

Date: 1962
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