Decision Making Styles in Higher Education Institutions: Systematic Literature Review

Higher education institutions (HEIs) face many challenges in an increasingly complex and turbulent environment. Academic managers are becoming leaders of change in their institutions and their roles are increasingly more challenging. Their managers' decisions and decision-making styles (DMS) directly affect the organization's efficiency, adaptability, employee satisfaction, and student academic performance. Since a DMS of decision maker forms the backbone of effective decision-making (DM), it is extremely important to analyze DMS of an academic managers. Therefore, this paper aimed to present findings of relevant studies on the DMS used in HEIs as well as the consequences of their usage. To emphasize the need of conducting further research on academic managers' DMS in conditions of unstable environment, the systematic literature review (SLR) is conducted and presented in the paper.