SOC101Y1 Chapter 4: Chapter 4 Moral Mazes Notes
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Fictions exist among managers as to how they believe the decision process happens. Managers are subject to the same discipline, systems of control and evaluation than the people they impose them upon. Many managerial decisions are routine and based on well established norms. Decision making is rarely individual because the blame is better distributed amongst a collective. Decision making clues are found by looking up and looking around . Middle management is the sector most paralyzed by decision making having more agency, a longer leash but likely little framework with which to make decisions: not the case with senior management. they have framework comes with time. Managers are short sighted because of: the troubling state of the economy and the focus on short term profit as well as, the structure and pace of their workday (regimented, full and fast) Managers run from blame as hard as they can at all times.
