Intuition, prayer, and managerial decision-making processes: a religion-based framework.

Purpose - Executives are challenged every day to make important decisions that affect the performance of their business enterprises and, as a result, the success of their own careers. Based on that scenario, one cannot expect that only the rational approach works like a panacea for all managerial problems. This paper aims to propose that the best solution tends to embrace a complementary or integrated decision-making approach. Design/methodology/approach - The paper seeks to demonstrate that the convergence between rational and non-rational decision-making processes can be optimized by integrating several religious tenets. Findings - The paper finds strong evidence that a religion-based framework might enrich the sensitive topic of decision-making processes in organizations. Practical implications - Overall, the paper strives to show that intuition and prayer are two faces of the same coin, and argues that both forms of decision processes (e.g. rational and non-rational analysis) might coexist perfectly in an integrative frame. Originality/value - The article proposes prayer as a transcendent coping mechanism whereby executives might refine their intuition flux. As a result, it depicts a conceptual framework encapsulating all those constructs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]