The Relationship between goal interdependence and participative decision-making as perceived by team members in ad, public relations, media, and BPO agencies in Metro Manila

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.