Decision-Making Styles

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This paper discusses the various different styles of decision-making. The paper presents one of the most innovative and helpful categorizations of decision-making styles, the "Platinum Rule Personal Styles" of the four basic business personalities. The four basic decision-making styles of the "Platinum Rule" are relaters, socializers, thinkers and directors. Each style is explored in terms of behavioral adaptivity, descriptions of the style, and suggestions for adaptability.

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"Leadership is the position of authority in which it is possible to provide guidance or direction through making decisions that will affect other people. There are many methods of decision making, and each individual person has a unique decision making style. Many different studies have explored the vast and quite possibly infinite numbers of decision making styles that are exhibited by people. One example of such personality studies is the Fielder contingency model, which is a leadership theory that categorized people into relationship-oriented and task-oriented groups. Those who fit into each category are assumed to function best when given tasks that suit their type, and that there is no way that a person of one type can function within the confines of the other. Another leadership model, the path-goal model, was developed by Robert House. House's categories of leadership styles very much focus on the ways in which leaders communicate with others. Directive leadership is a style that offers guidance, supportive leadership shows concern, participative leadership asks for consensus, and achievement oriented leadership demands results. This model shows that the styles are fluid and adaptable to the situation."

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