# Revealing the Nature of Organizations By:: [[Brian Heath]] 2023-11-07 There's a case to be made that Analytics should own decision-making policies within organizations just as Human Resources owns employee management policies. But what does such a decision-making policy look like? Certainly, this will differ for each organization based on the nature of the work and culture. So, a better question is, how does one begin developing such a policy? One place to start is with a discourse about decision-making beliefs and a shared understanding of the facts. Does the organization believe decision-making is reserved for management, that employees can only make decisions within their job description, or that everyone should make decisions together? Then, how does this align with the reality within the organization and what is understood about individual and group decision-making? There are no easy answers here, but any decision-making policy that ignores these is merely a document doomed for the waste bin of organizational history. The results from such an exercise will be enlightening. Nothing is more revealing about the nature of an organization than how it makes decisions. Does it make decisions to profit? Does the charismatic leader make all the decisions? Has the organization never decided to do anything? Is fear the primary driver of daily choices? This is the large, unexamined, and transparent elephant in the room that destroys even the best organizational intentions. #### Related Items [[Analytics]] [[Decision-making]] [[Organization]] [[Management]] [[Work]] [[Policies]]