Answer to Question #318142 in Management for Puchu

Question

Sateesh is a project manager in an IT Company. He needs to deploy some additional developers to be based on site. He has a meeting with the HR for the same and needs to give a plan of resource deployment to the HR with clarity on how many new members Vs how many current developers can be deployed on site. Managers have to make many decisions. Discuss various types of decisions managers typically make based on nature of the decisions, level of the management or capacity.

Answer 1

1. Routine decisions - Decisions made repeatedly in an organization. They include; sanctioning leaves, making orders e.t.c. Routine decisions are mostly made by managers at the Middle and Lower management level.
2. Strategic decisions - Decisions related to policy issues and thus require a through analysis and fact-finding like expanding the company. These decisions are normally made by the Middle and Top-level management.
3. Policy decisions - Decisions made by the top-management as they are founded on policy formulation like bonus payments.
4. Operating decisions - Decisions associated with the implementation/putting into actions the policy formulated by the top-level management. For instance in the above point, the calculation of each employee's bonus.
5. Departmental decision- Decisions made regarding the department's operations. Executed by department manager or the head of department.