The Importance Of Decision Making

Organisations then and now, still face obstacles when making a decision. As they are aware of the consequences because, making a decision is very crucial and may impact the organisation in the future not just externally, but also within the organisation. Even today, industrial cases that occurred for almost 2 decades are still being talked about as they left a disastrous history. Hence, Management Theorists such as Daniel Craig McCallum and Henri Fayol are the theorist in which can resolve the problem in the organisation such as their miscommunication, lack of control, command and information which leads to poor management and poor objective within the organisation.

Decision Making is a critical stage in an organisation because not everything becomes successful and this is because there are some chances of being successful and some chances of failure (Pate 2007). Decision Making is difficult because they involve a lot of skills and judgement that are developed throughout (Pate 2007). Management information is critical to decision-making because information of the organisations must be correct and concise because these are the data that were collected in order to make the right repercussions and decisions (Pate 2007). If wrong information is given, the organisation may face problems. Decision-making is a process of setting all the objectives, searching for alternative ways, comparing and evaluating those alternatives, making choices, implementing the decisions and controlling the decision (Harrison 2007). According to Wikipedia (2014), Control and command are the principles of authority. Employers will be disciplined and rules will be absolute. These all relates to one another because if the information is wrong, bad decision wi...

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...successful decision- making. Therefore, poor management in Industrial cases such as the Three Mile Island accident could have been prevented if the organisation followed the right procedures and steps for management decision-making.

Therefore, Decision Making is very crucial to an organisation because it will lead to a poor management such as the miscommunication and violation of safety rules that the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant operators had which caused an explosion and exposed many people to shockwaves and radiation. Also, the miscommunication that occurred during the Three Mile Island accident has been a great lesson, as the organisation didn’t provide enough information, orders and discipline. Although, Henri Fayol and Daniel Craig McCallum were being able to help prevent these cases from happening if the organisation followed their principles and theories.