Creativity and Decision Making

Organizational learning and creativity play an important role in helping managers improve their decisions. Managers must take steps to promote organizational learning and creativity at individual as well as group levels to improve the quality of decision making. Managers can encourage and promote entrepreneurship that mobilizes resources to take advantage of an opportunity to provide customers with new or improved goods and services.

The quality of managerial decision making ultimately depends on innovative responses to opportunities and threats. How can managers increase their ability to make nonprogrammed decisions that will allow them to adapt to$,$ modify, and even drastically alter their task environments so they can continually increase organizational performance? The answer is by encouraging organizational learning. This exercise will help you understand the relationship between organizational learning, creativity, and effective decision making.

Instructions: Match each concept to the descriptor that correctly relates to organizational learning and creativity.