Influence of Culture on Decision Making in Organizations: Applying Hofstede’s Value Dimensions
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2014
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The Ugandan Journal of Management and Public Policy Studies
Abstract
Quite often, the decision making process has been understood from the quantitative
approach; highly infl uenced by, inter alia, game theory, decision tress and linear
programmes. Moreover, there is a preoccupation with rational and economic explanations,
political dimensions, procedures, and the institutional framework of public organizations.
Yet organizations and the people that work in them have emotions, feelings and context.
Thus there is the need for analyzing the decision maker and decision making in the crosscultural
context. This paper seeks to draw the relationship between culture and decision
making. I explain the process through which policy subsystem arrives at a decision
of recommending policy options. The article argues that there is a fruitful intellectual
dimension linking culture to decision making an area which is not usually preferred in
public administration, on the pretext that culture has limited explanatory power since
culture could be broadly considered to mean everything.
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Decision making, Game theory, Institutions, Organizations, Culture, Hofstede
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Karyeija Kagambirwe, G. (2014). Influence of culture on decision making in organizations: Applying Hofstede’s value dimensions. The Ugandan Journal of Management and Public Policy Studies