Problemi Ekonomiki (Jun 2018)
A Methodology for Studying and Making Managerial Decisions
Abstract
The article outlines the methodological provisions for studying and making managerial decisions on the basis of theoretical and practical experience in the field of management, which attributes special features to a managerial decision. The article considers the approaches to studying and making managerial decisions separately, since managerial decision-making is a consistent purposeful process in the management system from the identification of the problem situation to the analysis and evaluation of the managerial decision, and the result of this process is a managerial decision that leads to certain changes in the management system. The role of structuring, characterization and optimization as procedures for reducing the uncertainty of information used in the process of making managerial decisions is described. There presented the essence of various approaches to studying and making managerial decisions as a single integrity, namely: the systems, target-oriented, process-oriented, situational, synergetic, integrated ones. There presented a conceptual model for studying and making managerial decisions, which consists of two blocks — “The methodology for making managerial decisions” and “The integral approach to studying and making managerial decisions”. The first block includes methodological approaches to studying managerial decisions (general methodological approaches to their studying and specific methodological approaches to their making) and theoretical approaches to making managerial decisions (theoretical approaches to their making and models for their making), and the second one — the components of the integral approach to their studying and making. The methodological provisions on studying and making managerial decisions outlined in the article are aimed at combining the approaches described and the scientific justification for selecting models and methods concerning specific aspects of this process.
