Creativity and Innovation in the Strategy and Decision Making in an Organization

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Creativity and Innovation in the Strategy and Decision Making in an Organization

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Write an essay examining Creativity and Innovation in the Strategy and Decision Making in an Organization

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On the other hand, programmed decision making entails coming up with responses able to address problems and opportunities within the organization that have been experienced before. It involves making decision that enable the organization to address problems and opportunities that recur after having arisen and been addressed before. To ensure that problems and opportunities are dealt with appropriately immediately they arise, organizations design a performance program to guide its employees on how to address the opportunities and problems that may arise along the way.  [1]A performance program therefore is a standard sequence of behaviour that guide the operations and conduct of the members of the organization and which the members are expected to follow routinely whenever confronted by a problem or an opportunity within the organization.

According to the Classical decision making model, after a while, the non-programmed decision making becomes programmed decision making as the organization gets used to it. [2]Due to the fact that decision makers are used to making decisions to address problems and opportunities in the organization, it is assumed that the decision maker is always equipped with the necessary information which they will always choose from whenever confronted with a problem and an opportunity within the organization.

[1] Alves, Jorge, Maria José Marques, Irina Saur, and Pedro Marques. “Creativity and innovation through multidisciplinary and multisectoral cooperation.” Creativity and Innovation Management 16, no. 1 (2007): 27-34.

 

[2] Baron, Robert A., and Jintong Tang. “The role of entrepreneurs in firm-level innovation: Joint effects of positive affect, creativity, and environmental dynamism.” Journal of Business Venturing 26, no. 1 (2011): 49-60.

 

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