THE METHODOLOGY OF MODERN APPROACHES AND PRINCIPLES OF RESEARCHING THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS

This article is devoted to the study and systematisation of the principal methodological approaches to decision-making, which are concentrated in two main directions. The first focuses on the analysis of individual decision-making styles and involves the generalisation of common modes of decision-making across different situations at the individual level, proceeding from the assumption that stable individual differences in decision-making exist. The second direction comprises an analysis of the relationships between decision-making styles and decision-making competence. In both of these approaches, however, the phenomenon of decision-making remains insufficiently examined in terms of the following relationship: decision-making style – value orientations – organisational culture, or the connection between one’s personal decision-making style and the influence of organisational culture is missing. Although researchers have concluded that established skills, styles and strategies of decisionmaking tend to manifest themselves similarly in real-life and laboratory settings, a promising new direction for research may lie in analysing the interrelationships between decision-making styles and the impact of organisational culture on decision-making processes.