“IMPACT OF SIX THINKING HATS TECHNIQUES ON THE LEGITIMATE DECISION-MAKING SKILLS OF MANAGERS”

Six Thinking Hats is a way to think differently and create solution. Day by day all the companies are facing very complex situations and they want a productive solution for their problems. The solution should be such that it should benefit manager, employees and organization as a whole. The Six Thinking Hats gives various angles of thinking to a particular problem, situation or issue and thus more prominent solutions are generated. As managers hold the responsible position in the companies where their decisions impact the organization either positively or negatively depending upon the quality of decision and the decision making skills of the managers. The six thinking hats concept gives the ability to the manager to think in a totally different and logical way for a particular situation. The main goal of the study is to find out the role of Six Thinking Hats in sharpening the decision making skills of the managers. Does six hat thinking has any influence over the manager in improving and taking good decisions for the companies. Total 100 managers from all over the banks, IT, services, manufacturing and retail sectors across India are considered for the study. Multiple regression analysis and ANOVA tools are used for analysis of the data and hypothesis. Six thinking hats factors such as Yellow Hat Thinking, Black Hat Thinking, Green Hat Thinking, Blue Hat Thinking, Red Hat Thinking and White Hat Thinking are considered as independent factors and manager’s decision making skills are considered as dependent factor. From the research study it has been found out that the six thinking hats technique had impact on the decision making skills of the managers.