MANAGERIAL DECISION STYLES AND IMPORTANT ORGANIZATIONAL FACTORS

Abstract

This paper studies the relationship between directive, analytic, conceptual and behavioral managerial decision style (Alan Rowe, 1992) and organizational structure, environment and efficacy (Burns & Stalker, 1961). On a sample of 34 managers from a private firm in a building industry in Skopje, Decision Style lnventoiy (DSI) of 20 items and Questionnaire on Important Organizational Characteristics of 13 items were applied. The results point at a combination of bureaucratic-flexible structure, average stable and certain organizational environment, and high
efficacy whereas the most practiced decision style is directive-analytic style. Compatibility exists among important organizational factors and directive-analytic style although in general between these factors and separate decision styles, significant correlation is not obtained. An application of conceptual-behavioral decision style that enables higher efficacy and employee care under conditions of enlarged uncertainty provoked by processes of transition and privatization is proposed for a more developed flexible structure of the organization.