Decision Making in a Faith-based Environment: Organizational Culture versus Decision Content

ABSTRACT Purpose: This article aims at explaining how a decision is made in the first management level, within five different organizations, from different origins - American, Brazilian and Chinese - in different branches of activity. Originality/value: This is an original work, since it goes beyond the frontiers of knowledge about the subject researched, both for its approach and for its practical usefulness in the day-to-day of the decision makers, being useful for both professionals - and decision making - and for companies - on how to improve the decision-making capacity of their managers. Design/methodology/approach: Fifty managers were interviewed, through the application of a qualitative exploratory research, with the collection of data through semi-structured interviews and content analysis as data analysis and treatment technique. Findings: One may conclude that the decision-making of the first level decision-making managers is more rational. Also, the organizational culture, among the studied variables is the one with the greater impact in the way this management level makes the decisions. This influence of the organizational culture contains three important elements: 1. the need of the manager to act procedurally, using the rules and standards of the company, 2. the use of supporting tools for the decision-making and 3. the learning from the current relationship - or from the past one - with their peers. To go deeper in the theme, we suggest the analysis of the influence of gender in decision-making, under the focus of rationality or intuition, in the first level of the managerial function of the organizations.

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The Effect of Accounting Information and Organizational Culture on Decision Making

Budapest International Research and Critics Institute (BIRCI-Journal) Humanities and Social Sciences ◽

10.33258/birci.v3i1.800 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 522-530

Author(s):

Teresa Paulina Sihombing ◽

Nasirwan Nasirwan ◽

Chandra Situmeang

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Organizational Culture ◽

Catholic Education ◽

Accounting Information ◽

Relevant Information ◽

Partial Least Square ◽

Least Square ◽

Education Foundations ◽

Organizational Culture Theory ◽

Decision Making Model

This study examines the educational foundation's organizational decision making model that is the influence of accounting information and organizational culture on decision making. This research is a quantitative study with descriptive and inferential analysis. The sample of this study was 72 Catholic education foundations in Indonesia, which were tested by Partial Least Square (PLS) based analysis and data processing methods with the Smart PLS 3.0 program. This study obtains some empirical evidence, namely, first, accounting information significantly influences decision making. These results are consistent with the theory that the main purpose of the foundation's financial statements is to provide relevant information to meet the foundation's internal and external interests to help decision makers make the best decisions for the organization. Second, organizational culture significantly influences decision making. This result is in line with organizational culture theory which states that organizational culture is a value that is used as a reference in all decisions and actions of members of the organization and that reflects the goals, identity, and standard of evaluation of everything in the organization. So it was concluded that the best decision was a decision made based on accounting information and organizational culture at a Catholic education foundation in Indonesia

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Creating an Organizational Culture for Evidence-Informed Decision Making

Healthcare Management Forum ◽

10.1016/j.hcmf.2012.07.005 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 25 (3) ◽

pp. 146-150 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Megan Ward ◽

David Mowat

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Organizational Culture ◽

Informed Decision ◽

Informed Decision Making

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Motivation, Decision-Making, and Organizational Culture

American Public Administration ◽

10.4324/9781315271200-9 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 206-230

Author(s):

Robert A. Cropf ◽

John L. Wagner

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Organizational Culture

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Ethical Consumerism: Contextual Issues of Ethical Decision-Making Processes

Sustainable Business ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-9615-8.ch064 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1434-1450

Author(s):

Ebtihaj A. Al-A'ali ◽

Abdul Redha Al-Sarraf

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Organizational Culture ◽

Cultural Context ◽

Ethical Decision ◽

Ethical Decision Making ◽

Business Students ◽

Future Research ◽

Reward Systems ◽

Work Roles ◽

Ethical Consumerism

Ethical consumerism is the outcome of an ethical decision-making process. This research examines situational factors exemplified in context-related issues affecting decision-making as perceived by business students at the University of Bahrain. Reward systems, authority, bureaucracy, work role, organizational culture and national and cultural context are investigated. Qualitative research employing open-ended questions in questionnaire form is used. Two hundred and forty students participated in this research. Five questions were asked in the research. Themes involved are illustrations of reward systems, bureaucracy, organizational culture, national and cultural context and work roles. This research suggests that work roles require to be thoroughly investigated in future research. The research also shows that students are unaware of ethical consumerism. This explains reasons for not translating views of students to behavior as a reflection of ethical consumerism.

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Do Women Perceive Organizational Culture Differently From Men?

Handbook of Research on Civic Engagement and Social Change in Contemporary Society - Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-4197-4.ch015 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 253-271

Author(s):

Richa Vij

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Organizational Culture ◽

Gender Diversity ◽

Intervention Strategy ◽

Diversity Management ◽

Effective Management ◽

Representation Of Women ◽

Women Employees ◽

Female Employees ◽

Women In The Workforce

With the increasing proportion of women in the workforce, need for effective management of gender-diversity is being felt. While much of the effort in gender-diversity management has been on representation of women in the decision-making bodies and processes, the most fundamental diversity issue for the organization remains practically untouched. Organizational culture has long been shaped and dominated by male orientations and therefore focus on change in the organizational culture can help in addressing the issue of discrimination and isolation of women in organizations. Any intervention strategy in this regard would require understanding of the attributes of organizational culture that give the feeling of discrimination to women employees resulting in their isolation from the mainstream, thereby hampering their performance. The present chapter aims at identifying the attributes of organizational culture in respect of which the perceptions of female employees differ significantly from those of male employees in State Bank of India.

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14. The Committee of Permanent Representatives:

10.1093/hepl/9780198862222.003.0014 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 323-347

Author(s):

Jeffrey Lewis

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Organizational Culture ◽

Collective Decision ◽

Collective Decision Making ◽

Decision Making System ◽

Actual Operation ◽

Council Of Ministers ◽

Logics Of Action

The Committee of Permanent Representatives (Coreper) originated as a diplomatic forum to meet regularly and prepare meetings of the Council of Ministers. It quickly and quietly evolved into a locus of continuous negotiation and de facto decision-making, gaining a reputation as ‘the place to do the deal’. This reputation is based on insulation from domestic audiences and an unrivalled ability to make deals stick across a range of issue areas and policy subjects. Most importantly, Coreper spotlights the process of integrating interests in a collective decision-making system with its own organizational culture, norms, and style of discourse. In actual operation, the Committee has much to offer institutional theorizing, as multiple ‘logics’ of action are discernible and often complexly entwined.

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