Purpose – To provide an explanation of an approach to education and development for leadership in organizations, as distinct from education about leadership. Design/methodology/approach – The paper refers to leadership in private as well as public organizations and organizational units, to...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the meaning, significance, and development, of common sense and to suggest an approach for enhancing it. Design/methodology/approach – Literature review and critical analysis of the way greater skill in decision‐making leads to “better”...

Purpose – This paper is intended to offer a practical perspective on how to achieve high quality of decisions. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses an inductive approach by looking at all the issues that deserve consideration in one or more of the steps in the decision‐making...

Purpose – Many human resource professionals erroneously believe that they can hire the best employees without the assistance of decision aids. The purpose of this study is to examine personal and situational characteristics that may relate to preference for intuition‐based approaches to...

It is not widely understood how much society, even the world, loses because managers are not sufficiently competent. Part of the reason for the problem is that managers are not adequately aware of the importance, the implications, and the scope, of the “leadership” issues that should enter...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show how focus on decisions can enhance management education and especially those aspects that pertain to their impact on stakeholders. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reports on use of the model in public and private organizations. Findings...

This paper presents an eight‐questions model for leadership and management decisions. The eight questions provide a comprehensive and integrated system that can help managers become more competent as managers, and as leaders, by bringing more thoroughly considered decisions. They are based on...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine organizational justice, decision making, and the unintended consequences of cognitive biases and errors. Managers, and other leaders, are often subject to simple, but serious, biases and errors when making important organizational decisions....

Purpose – The author has the objective of demonstrating how decision‐making conversations that are not guided by a process can lead to misunderstandings, wasted time, and a lack of results. These undisciplined exchanges will be contrasted with communications between and among people who use...