Studying efficacy of organizational and conceptual factors on managers decision making in Iranian governmental organizations

摘要

The purpose of this research is to investigate the impact of organizational factors on the styles of managers’ decision making and the difference between the perception of managers and employees on the styles used by managers in the general governor Office of Kurdistan. On this basis, 60 managers and 290 employees were chosen as statistical sample. The analytical model of this study was based on general decision making style (GDMS) by Scott and Bruce. Questionnaire validity, content validity and compatibility based on Hadyzadeh and Tehrani were collected from 10 experts and professors, whereas an experimental implementation of the questionnaire between 10 managers and 90 employees, and an analysis of the exploratory factor and KMO index Screen plot for both questionnaires were checked. Kolmogorov-Smirnov test results confirmed the normal distribution of the data, thus confirming chi-square test, one way multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) and the two samples T of Friedman which were used. Pearson test correlation was used to determine the correlation between the styles used by managers using SPSS 18 and LISREL 8.5 software. The research results indicated that organizational factors such as: size of the organization and position of the director of the organization, in organization’s hierarchy, influenced the style of the overall decision making by the manager. Also, there is a meaningful difference between the perception of managers and staff about the style of managers in decision making.