Decision-Making Styles in the Workplace

Silvia Raffaldi, Paola Iannello, Laura Vittani and Alessandro Antonietti

SAGE Open, 2012, vol. 2, issue 2, 2158244012448082

Abstract: Two procedures were adopted to assess decision-making styles in the workplace: (a) the administration of traditional standardized self-report questionnaires and (b) open-ended questions about the way respondents would take decisions in a critical business case. Seventy-four adults were given two questionnaires: the Preference for Intuition and Deliberation , which assesses “deliberative†or “intuitive†decision style, and the Style of Learning and Thinking , which assesses thinking styles as “left†(namely, analytical-systematic) or “right†(that is, global-intuitive). Participants were also presented with a business case that involved taking a decision. Responses to the business case were used to classify approaches to decision making as “analytical-systematic†or “global-intuitive.†Results showed that the questionnaires correlated consistently with scores from the business case, thus supporting the notion that the assessment of decision style through self-report questionnaires is reliable and valid.

Keywords: decision making styles; intuitive/analytic approach; workplace; self-report questionnaires; business case (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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