Decision Making and Problem Solving

Economic woes have organizations scrambling to find ways to improve employee performance. Some employees are claiming burn-out after having to pick up work loads of other employees who have been laid off or otherwise have left the organization and their position has not been replaced. In other workplace struggles harmful conflict situations are building, in some cases they are being recognized by organization leaders and some are going seemingly unnoticed. Regardless, workplace teams often express a desire to work better together but simply cannot close the gap on conflict or negative feelings.

If the success of your organization depends on the effectiveness of your employees how are you encouraging good communication and perhaps more importantly how are the employees solving workplace problems? Are they solving them in a vacuum? Are they making group decisions?

How people work together to solve problems can make the difference between a good decision, and a harmful one. Are workplace teams responsible to make decisions and solve problems in your organization? How effective are the teams at making good choices?