Manager’s decision-making in organizations empirical analysis of bureaucratic vs. learning approach

Eva Bolfikova (), Daniela Hrehova and Jana Frenova
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Eva Bolfikova: University of Pavol Jozef Safarik in Kosice, Faculty of Public Administration, Kosice, Slovak Republic
Daniela Hrehova: Technical University in Kosice, Department of Social Sciences, Kosice, Slovak Republic
Jana Frenova: The University of Presov, Faculty of Management, Presov, Slovak Republic

Zbornik radova Ekonomskog fakulteta u Rijeci/Proceedings of Rijeka Faculty of Economics, 2010, vol. 28, issue 1, 135-163

Abstract: The paper is focused on the study of manager’s decision-making with respect to the basic model of learning organization, presented by P. Senge as a system model of management. On one hand, the empirical research was conducted in connection with key dimensions of organizational learning such as: 1. system thinking, 2. personal mastery, 3. mental models, 4. team learning, 5. building shared vision and 6. dynamics causes. On the other hand, the research was connected with the analysis of the bureaucratic logic of decision-making process, characterized by non-functional stability, inflexibility, individualism, power, authority and hierarchy, centralization, vagueness, fragmentariness. The objective of the research was to analyse to what extent manager’s decisionmaking is based on bureaucratic tools or organizational learning in either complex problem-solving or non-problem- solving decision-making. (MANOVA, method of the repeated measure, inter- subject factor situation: 1. non-problematic, 2. problematic). The conclusion of analysis is that there are significant differences in character of solving of problem situation and non-problem situation decision-making: the bureaucratic attributes of decision-making are more intensive in problematic situations while learning approach is more actual in non-problematic situations. The results of our analysis have shown that managers who apply the learning organization attributes in their decision-making. are more successful in problem-solving.

Keywords: organizational learning; manager’s decision making; bureaucracy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D73 D83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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