Prescriptive and Descriptive Approaches and Models of Planned Change for

Decision Making in Management and change

Prescriptive and Descriptive Approaches and Models of Planned Change for

Decision Making in Management and change

Introduction

Decision making is the most important part of business activity, especially in managing the changes in the management and organization. It is the basic responsibility of management or the leader to make the decision for the implementation of changes in various important strategies which are important for the business organizations. It is the most important element to understand the need for the decision making, as it a general concept that world is changing and it is important to make decisions that can be beneficial for the business organization for the implementation of these changes. This requires proper approaches and models to plan these changes. It is the most important aspect to make decisions that can increase productivity and growth and can make the future sustainability possible. Globalization and advancement of technology is the main concern in today's competitive environment and its effect in the decision making strategies. Every day changes in the business environment are a major threat for the present stability and future sustainability of business organizations. There are various concerns in the environment of business world that leads towards the concept of taking decisions with the need of the organizational management. Successful organizations always follow the rules of effective decision making. It is not easy to make decision in the organization on the daily basis with the changing outside environment. This is the major concern that affects the organizations and create problem.

It is very difficult to take decision for the design and implementation of strategies in the organizations as it affects the behavior of all the employees. Before implementing these decisions there is need to bring the decisions in the structure of the organization so that it can accept these decisions (George & Jones, 2007). This requires that the structure of these organizations must be flexible and open for these decisions and decision making policies. It is a common phenomenon associated with the decisions in the organization that these are mostly related with the concept of the decisions only in the situation of the crises, but in today's modern and advanced world it is the basic organizational strategy that requires the proper decisions for the implementation of the latest technological advancements and research and development in the field to keep updated (Waddell, et.al, 2007). This is the most essential factor that there is need for the whole research and development team to keep performing this special task. The most important task is to first look for the decisions and then need to take proper measure to access and evaluate these external decisions and then to make proper decision in the organizations. After this the next stage is to develop the strategies and policies that can be implied in the development of the organization. This decisions and developments, when implemented in the organization it completely transforms the organization (Hammer ...