THE ROLE OF AGE AND GENDER IN GROUP DECISION-MAKING PROPENSITY
THE ROLE OF AGE AND GENDER IN GROUP DECISION-MAKING PROPENSITY

Author(s): Juliana Osmani
Subject(s): Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Udruženje ekonomista i menadžera Balkana
Keywords: Group decision-making; Group propensity; Age, Gender; Decision’s effectiveness.
Summary/Abstract: Increasingly, organizations are oriented towards groups to make decisions. This is because some contextual factors have undergone significant changes. Companies are operating in a competitive, dynamic and complex environment, having to face with unstructured and non-programmed decisions. Organizations are also oriented towards participatory processes in order to benefit from the important advantages that these processes offer. The main goal of the current research is to understand if there is a correlation between group decision-making propensity, age and gender. The motivation for the current research starts from the consideration that the degree of preference for group decision-making processes determines the contribution and commitment of the members, with important consequences on the decisions’ effectiveness. The processing and analysis of the collected data indicate that adults prefer group decision-making processes more than young people and women prefer group decision-making processes less than men.

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