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2 MANAGING INFORMATION OVERLOAD FOR EFFECTIVE DECISION MAKING : AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ON MANAGERS OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC

Information overload is an ongoing problem in an organization and has linkage with effective decisionmaking process. An attempt was made to empirically study the information overload problems faced by managers of the South Pacific Region. A questionnaire survey, with 106 items, was conducted to collect and collate responses from 104 managers on countermeasures that help mitigate the information overload problems. The data analysis, using SPSS, revealed that the cause groups are significantly correlated and contribute to the effective decision making process.