Explore the relationship between the various ways that decision making in organisations may be described and explained and the methodologies to support decision making.

Decision-making is an important part in every organisation. There are many theories on decision- making and how decision making should be approached. The main theory on decision- making is the Rational Economic Model (REM). Others include descriptive decision theory and image theory. The theory of decision- making is supported by different methods. The main methods of implementing the theories are operational research (OR)/ management science and soft systems methodology (SSM). Other methodologies to support decision-making …

…issues of power it 'assumes that all members of the enterprise have choice, in fact equal choice' (http://linus.socs.uts.edu.au/~jim/bpt/ssm.html). The workers can't always speak to managers about problems and what they think needs to be done. It has also been argued by critics that the consultants could manipulate the participants and make them think that the decisions are good for the business when it may not be.