a study of the relationship between general decision making styles of managers in public organizations

decision making is the essence of managers activities and is of great importance in all of their responsibilities. the main purpose of this study is to investigate general decision making styles of n.i.o.p.d.c ‘s managers in order to study the construction validity of g.d.m.s questionnaire. a collection of 55 managers were selected as statistical sample and rational, intuitive, dependant, spontaneous and avoidant decision making styles were tested among them. a decision making style questionnaire was used for measuring decision making styles of managers. regarding to the result of kolmogorov–smirnov test all the variables are in normal form. therefore pearson correlation was taken to test the relationships of general decision making styles. analyzing data results revealed that the rational style is significantly negatively correlated with the intuitive style and there are significant positive correlations between the rational and the avoidant styles and between intuitive and spontaneous styles. also there are significant negative correlation between the avoidant and each of the dependant and the spontaneous styles. there are’nt any correlations between gender or level of studies and each of the decision making styles.