Decision-making: Path to Effectiveness

The emphasis is on investigating an aspect of managerial decision-making style with the potential to enhance managerial performance. In this context, it is important to examine the relationship between decision-making styles with conflict handling. This study focuses primarily on exploring the role of conflict management used in the organization as predictors of decision-making styles. The Data collected from 307 executives belonging to banking sector from West Bengal, India. The Data analysed using descriptive and simple regressions analysis techniques. Results suggest that conflict-handling style used in the organization in addition to decision maker’s education and management levels are good predictors of decision-making styles in such an environment. Results also indicate that a tendency towards the analytical style prevails among managers. Further, the implication of the contribution made by this study to the body of management theory and practice discussed.