Problem Solving Styles Determine Manager's Approach to Making Decisions

An increasingly popular concept used as a tool for developing managers in such areas as decision making and communication focuses on the elements of an individual's problem-solving style. The Briggs-Myers Type Indicator was developed to measure an individual's problem-solving style. People...

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Published inIndustrial management (Des Plaines) Vol. 33; no. 5; p. 5
Main Authors Mosley, Donald C, O'Brien, Fabius P, Pietri, Paul H
Format Magazine Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Norcross Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) 01.09.1991
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Careers
Characteristics
Decision making
Human relations
Management styles
Managers
Problem solving
Roles
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Summary:An increasingly popular concept used as a tool for developing managers in such areas as decision making and communication focuses on the elements of an individual's problem-solving style. The Briggs-Myers Type Indicator was developed to measure an individual's problem-solving style. People perceive data either through the process of sensing through the 5 senses or through intuition. Managers evaluate data either by thinking decisions through, whereby they use a logical, rational reasoning process to arrive at a conclusion, or by feeling, whereby they use innate processes that rely on human values and beliefs. Decision-making and problem-solving styles fall into one of 4 categories: 1. sensing-feeling, 2. sensing-thinking, 3. intuitive-thinking, and 4. intuitive-feeling.
ISSN:0019-8471