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Decision Making
CSAT: Comprehension, Reasoning & Numeracy
Useful for: UPSC Civil Services
Overview
Decision-making items present administrative or interpersonal situations; the best option is lawful, fair, public-spirited and practical.
Key points
- Prefer actions within law and rules.
- Protect public interest and vulnerable people.
- Communicate and consult before acting where time allows.
- Avoid passive options that ignore the problem and aggressive options that escalate it.
- Escalate to higher authority when the matter exceeds your powers.
- Such items have appeared rarely in recent CSAT papers, but the same reasoning helps in GS-IV case studies.
Practice MCQs
From the perspective of definition and scope, which one of the following statements about Decision Making is correct?
- An administratively convenient option is automatically the most ethical and lawful option.
- Decision Making is unrelated to institutions, processes or real-world applications.
- Decision Making has no exceptions or limitations in exam analysis.
- Good administrative decisions identify stakeholders, constraints, legality, evidence and consequences.
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Answer: (d) Good administrative decisions identify stakeholders, constraints, legality, evidence and consequences.. Good administrative decisions identify stakeholders, constraints, legality, evidence and consequences.
Consider the following statements on Decision Making, focusing on definition and scope: 1. An administratively convenient option is automatically the most ethical and lawful option. 2. Good administrative decisions identify stakeholders, constraints, legality, evidence and consequences. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
- 1 only
- 2 only
- Both 1 and 2
- Neither 1 nor 2
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Answer: (b) 2 only. Statement 2 is correct; Statement 1 is a common misconception.
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