Sunday, February 27, 2011
Culture in Decision Making
When we are face to make a decision, many components will influence the process and will help to understand the outcome, the main one, i consider, is the cultural background you have.
Culture will affect directly the process of the decision making, according to the Hofstede´s 5 cultural dimensions, mainly 3 of them can influence such process, people will pick a solution based if they are long term orientated or short term orientated, if they want to profit from their decision in the long run or immediately; also if the culture they belong to is collectivism or individualism to know if the decision taken was chosen taking others well being into account; and if they have uncertainty avoidance to understand why they have chosen the different uncommon option or they didn't took any unknown risks and to know why they reacted in a certain way when ambiguous situations appeared.
This cultural influences may become a conflict when decisions must be taken between several responsible people with different backgrounds because the common thing is that they will not easily agree on choosing the best option as they wont have the same opinions and preferences so they need to work together, tolerate differences, learn to listen, consider other options, be open minded and try to chose that option that is best for the company´s well fare.
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