Determinants of the decision-making process in organizations

Understanding personal behavioral determinants in the decision-making of change agents from local politics and government in planning and implementing community health promotion: A qualitative study

“…This nding matches a study which analyzed the determinants of the decision-making process of managers in organizations. In that study, experience was one of the most important determinants [27].…”

“…When adopting integration technologies, local government decision-makers are affected by their personalities, ethics, and values [26]. Analysis of the determinants of the decisionmaking process of managers in organizations has revealed that some of the most important determinants are also values, ethics, and personality [27].…”

“…This result matches a study which analyzed the determinants of the decision-making process of managers in organizations. The most important psychological determinants were personality, intuition, emotions, mood, feelings, and prejudices [27].…”

“…The results indicate that attitude or, more speci cally, a positive attitude and subjective norms play a role when implementing health promotion [23]. Other studies have examined decision-making behavior exclusively, but in different settings, contexts, or with different target groups or different research aims and study designs [24][25][26][27]. Important determinants that have been identi ed are, for example, attitudes, (subjective) norms, perceived behavioral control, perceptions, constituent pressure as social in uence, knowledge, managerial capabilities, authority, experience, competence, skills, values, ethics, personality, intuition, emotions, mood, feelings, and prejudices [24][25][26][27].…”

“…Other studies have examined decision-making behavior exclusively, but in different settings, contexts, or with different target groups or different research aims and study designs [24][25][26][27]. Important determinants that have been identi ed are, for example, attitudes, (subjective) norms, perceived behavioral control, perceptions, constituent pressure as social in uence, knowledge, managerial capabilities, authority, experience, competence, skills, values, ethics, personality, intuition, emotions, mood, feelings, and prejudices [24][25][26][27]. However, to date most studies have focused either on policy or program implementation, or on the decision-making behavior of different target groups, but the personal behavioral determinants of the decision-making of CAs from local politics and local government have not been su ciently investigated from a public health or health promotion perspective.…”