Percepção dos modelos de tomada de decisão organizacional: construção e validação de um instrumento de medida

Abstract

Studies on decision making analyze the characteristics of the decision at the individual and organizational aspects and influencing factors in various process and models developed in his chronology to investigate and explain the relevant points of the construct. The aim of this study was to develop and validate a measurement instrument on the perception of organizational decision making based on assumptions developed by Choo (2003). The method used for construction of the instrument followed was designed by Pasquali (1999). The theoretical procedures were erected in the search of the literature regarding the construct to develop constituent definitions and the items. The next step was to analyze the responses of judges specialized in the field of Organizational Psychology and Administration to verify the concordance rates obtained. In possession of the indices, the instrument was applied to 457 respondents located in the city of Uberlândia/MG who were formally employed in public or private companies to meet the validation process of the instrument. Was used the exploratory factor analysis because there isn t other instruments for comparison in this theme. The statistical procedure revealed that the instrument of perception models of organizational decision making is composed of two factors that explain 28.54% of the total variance. The reliability indices for the factor \"Rational Model\" were 0.89 and for the factor \"Anarchic Model\" of 0.88. The results indicate the existence of only two models among the various models in the literature in which the Rational model is grounded in rules and procedures while the Anarchic Model turns to the lack of rules for decision making, which implies a conceptual confusion about the construct and the need for more research in the area.