Intuição, liderança e tomada de decisão : um estudo qualitativo

Abstract

The objective of this work is to analyze the leader’s play in the organization and its basic characteristics and similarities with the intuitive professional on the decision-making process, considering a contemporaneous perspective. This analysis is based on a qualitative research well-founded on a bibliographic review on leadership and the intuition on the decision-making process, and also on the way the managers/leaders behave, their interactions and disclosures on professional activities. This research stated that the more usual way to analyze the best variable on the decision-making process is the quantitative rational method. However, according to several authors researched there are other possibilities, specially the use of intuition. These authors say that intuition is not opposite to rationality, but a complement of it. Intuition is a skill that everyone has but it needs to be recognized for a better use. The leader main characteristic is to provide guidelines for innovation, with inspiration and trustfulness, defying the status quo and been capable to interact with the group in a congruent manner, providing more effective results for the corporation. When focusing the chaos, complexity and dynamics of the changes generated by this vision, and when searching new possibilities, he/she gets approached to intuitive professionals’ characteristics as described on the literature.