Abstract:
Goals and decision-making are part of the everyday lives of human beings. These
two processes can be applied in the corporate world and working with a team manifests
these. When the team comes to the crucial part of decision-making, team members are
either cooperative, competitive, or neither of the two. This study attempts to discover the
relationship goal interdependence and participative decision-making among one hundred
team members in ad, PR, media, and BPO agencies with the objectives of finding out the
levels of the said variables. The Theory of Cooperation and Competition by Morton
Deustch was the base of the conceptual and operational frameworks of this study. Data
were gathered through survey questionnaires and were analyzed accordingly. The
research findings suggest that there is a significant relationship between the two
variables. Hopefully, this study will pave the way for a deeper understanding of the
decision-making processes and the goals of teams and team members in agencies by
corporations and even the employees. Moreover, this study can help further studies to
discover more about corporate team dynamics and can be of aid to companies in
understanding how teams really work. Resources for this study were limited and it would
be better, for the future researchers, to find and scout for more to obtain better results.
Likewise, future researchers can administer the survey questionnaire to a higher number
of respondents.
