Decision-making methodologies in public management

Abstract

To highlight the importance of understanding the Decision System as an essential factor to support the public manager through objective criteria and based strictly on technique as well as in decision-making on the implementation of projects and programs aimed at the population. Public administration is governed by the principles of legality, impersonality, morality, publicity and efficiency. With scarce resources, transparency is increasingly demanded in decisions. Society starts to act as an observer of the use of public resources in a transparent manner, introducing citizens to the public debate in order to ensure that the rights of the community are enforced. In this context, tools are needed to support transparent and objective decisions. Theoretical review of the decision-making methodologies most used in the market, through works, articles and the literature on them. Decision methods will be necessary from from that moment to support public managers who are looking for security and transparency. Tools called decision-making methodologies are extremely useful in public management decision-making processes and, for the reasons explained, among such tools, the use of the method Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is the most suitable.