Forces of Influence

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Any choice or decision that a manager makes influences the organization's performance. If the decision taken serves any personal interest of one person or a few people then it is bound to prove harmful for the organization. However, it cannot be ignored that any decision made by an employee is influenced by a number of factors since decisions are not made in a vacuum. This paper examines the different thinking patterns that are employed by a person in making a choice and the various forces of influences that determine the choice he is going to make. The paper also uses an illustrated situation to explain the points of the paper more clearly.

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"The foremost force of influence is the information available to a manager. This is because managers are basically "information workers" (McCall & Kaplan, 1990). They spend the majority of their time absorbing information and trying to process all the information in order to reach a decision of some sort or another. Secondly, managers are also influenced by the associates that surround him or her. The colleagues not only provide a manager with the information that is needed to complete a particular scenario, they also determine the decision that a manager will finally make. Thirdly, a manager's choice is also determined by the environment at work or the guiding values and beliefs within the organization."

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