IN-BASKET EXERCISES AS A METHODOLOGY FOR STUDYING INFORMATION-PROCESSING

In-basket exercises have the potential to be an important research tool for examing how managers allocate attention and respond toinformation in their environment. This article describes the in-basket methodology outlines various issues in organizational information processing and decision making to which this methodology might be applicable, and discusses some of the advantages and disadvantages of usingin-baskets to examine information processing in a simulated organizational context. © 1990, SAGE Publications. All rights reserved.