Accession Number:

AD0743916

Title:

Some Descriptive Studies of Participation in Decision-Making.

Descriptive Note:

Technical rept.,

Corporate Author:

CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA GRADUATE SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL ADMINISTRATION

Personal Author(s):

• Vroom,Victor H.
• Yetton,Philip W.

Report Date:

1972-06-20

Pagination or Media Count:

55.0

Abstract:

The paper deals with the determinants of a managers choice among a set of processes for making decisions in organizations, varying in the extent to which his subordinates have an opportunity to participate in decision-making. A set of four empirical studies is described. The first demonstrates that the decision process used varies not only across managers, as implied in past research, but also within a single manager across situations. The second study develops a metric for scaling the set of five decision processes on a unidimensional scale of participation. The third and fourth studies are concerned principally with identifying the situations in which managers choose to retain decision-making power or share it with their subordinates. Author

Descriptors:

• (*DECISION MAKING
• FACTOR ANALYSIS)
• ORGANIZATIONS
• SCALE
• LEADERSHIP

Subject Categories:

• Psychology

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE