A Study for Application of Decision Making Model in a Public Organization

Decision-making can be regarded as an outcome of mental processes leading to the selection of a course of action among numbers of alternatives available at a point of time. Each decision making process produces a final choice and the output will be an action or an opinion of choice (Decision Making). Decision making is, however, only a step in planning, even when it is taken quickly, with little thoughts and information or when it effects action for few minutes only. Everyone takes decision daily in his life for every course of action. Seldom there is a chance to judge a course of action in isolation, as every decision has to gear up other plans. In public organization consensus can be a goal, not a mandate for public decision-making. Public policies are the mixture of our values and opinions, technical knowledge and abilities, and political set up. These are the views often conflict with one another, but when they differ from the individual views, generate disregard for the opinions and perspectives of others.