Intuitive decision-making and leadership competencies of managers in Slovenian automotive industry
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.37886/Keywords:
management, competencies, intuition, inuitive decision-making, automotive industryAbstract
Research question (RQ): Presence of intuitive decision-making by top and middle managers in Slovenian automotive industry.
Purpose: Establish the presence of inuitive decision-making by top and middle managers in Slovenian automotive industry, define the intuitive decision-making with variables of leadership competencies.
Methodology: empirical research was conducted within the quantitative research approach by means of a GDMS questionnaire (General Decision Making Style). The obtained research data were processed by means of descriptive statistics, factor analysis (PAF, varimax), recoding and discriminant analysis.
Results: Intuitive decision-making by top and middle managers in automotive industry can be characterized by their ability to recognize emotions, to reflect on options when making a decision and by making a decision at the last moment.
Organization: Practical (applicable) added value in the area of management personnel administration in the automotive industry and others.
Society: Basic starting points set for further detailed and targeted research in other related social areas.
Originality: Originality of the conducted research consists in the fact that no available domestic or foreign scientific literature features any research implying the elements of the operationalization applied (examination of relationship between leadership competencies and intuitive decision-making) as this is the case in the present research which undoubtedly confirms its originality.
Limitations/further research: (1) Use of standardized measuring instruments of foreign origin and potential differences between the environment where the measuring instrumnets were conceived and the environment where they were used. (2) Limited capabilities of translation of measuring instruments into words, collocations and phrases from the original questionnaires for which no adequate translation in Slovene exists.
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