7 Bonnie Patterson has been a manager for seven years at Wayne and Watson, a legal consultancy firm. A good part of her workday involves holding meetings and she likes to do work on a time-bound schedule. For this reason, members of her team receive the agenda at the beginning of the meeting, followed by some time to contemplate over the issue at hand individually. Subsequently, the team members present their ideas one after the other, the group discusses them together, and lastly, a ranking is done to choose the most favored idea. This represents the ________ approach of group decision…
Analyze group communications and work team effectiveness through goal setting, decision-making methods and meeting techniques…
Group decision making can be very helpful in getting different thoughts and opinions out of discussion, but also can be dangerous because of groupthink. Groupthink occurs when people avoid individually testing, analyzing, and evaluating facts in order to avoid upsetting the consensus of a group. In effect a conflict occurs whereby some topics are okay to discuss while others are closed often without the group being consciously aware of it. Those who violate the unspoken rules often find themselves being ostracized, alienated and ultimately expelled from the group.…
This paper is the final component in group decision making. The Learning Team will review each step of the previous team assignments and generate a final business decision with executive recommendations. The assignment should provide data and examples for the recommended decision, and persuade the audience that this is the correct decision. The ability to persuade the audience to your recommendation is a valuable skill in the business environment.…
Turman, P. (October 13, 2000b). Group Decision Making & Problem Solving: Group Communication [Lecture] Cedar Falls, IA. University of Northern Iowa, Communication Studies Department.…
Breaking the group into smaller units to think about a limited number of suggestions that they feel are important to them.…
Group decision making enables organisations to make the best use of their employees by fostering teamwork. Organisations that build successful teams are able to leverage upon diversity, lateral thinking and creativity, and…
There are several key elements involved with establishing and maintaining effective communications in a group environment. Understanding the dynamics of group communication is essential at the outset of any project or endeavor that requires input from multiple team members. A great deal of thought should also be put into the process and ground rules for dispute resolution. As with any solid plan, the effective application of fundamental communications strategies coupled with leveraging available technologies will go a long way toward ensuring project success.…
I believe that utilizing the five major characteristics of the group decision making process would help any group out. It helps with the thinking process and breaks things up into categories so the group is not overwhelmed with the entire task at hand.…
In our group for this assignment we used a few techniques to arrive at a combined agreement. Group Polarization was definitely present in this group, so was dictatorship and conformity. The group worked together verbally; since a face to face was not applicable. Moscovici & Zavalloni describe group polarization as a “tendency for a group discussion to amplify the inclinations of group members.” (Moscovici, S., & Zavalloni, M., 1969).…
Team Decision Making Nemeth, C., & Owens, P. (1996). Making work groups more effective: the value of minority dissent. In M. A. West (Ed.), Handbook of work group psychology (pp. 125-141). West Sussex, England: John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Page, E., & Whatley, A. (1994). Electronic brainstorming. Business Mexico, 4(10), 5-7.…
The formation of groups can be quite effective in organizations. There are many situations that warrant the use of groups to achieve a desired outcome. Conversely, there are also various situations where individual decision-making would be more effective. This essay sets out to show you various examples of when and where group decision-making should be applied, and also show examples of when the need arises for an individual to make a decision on behalf of a group.…
In this chapter, our topic is the process of communication in decision-making groups. How can we best approach this topic? The theories and research studies that we will describe relate to two viewpoints that are variants of perspectives that we defined in Chapter 1.…
In general, the implementation process of those major decision-making(DM) problem, related to national economy and people's livelihood, must consider two factors: fairness and democracy, because these problems are involved in various benefits. In order to avoid great risk of DM from the faults of individual judgment, the way of group decision-making(GDM) may be carried out. In the decision process, decision groups can be composed of delegates of stakeholder. For a means of DM, the mode of GDM can take account of various benefits, and overcome the shortages of individual judgment, such as knowledge, experience, ability and information. Thus, GDM method is a powerful tool to settle those major decision-making problems by qualitative and quantitative analysis. The results of these researches may have more influences in many application fields, and promote the scientific DM process.…
Group decision support systems (GDSS) are interactive, computer-based systems that facilitate solution of semi-structured and unstructured problems by a designated set of decision-makers working together as a group. A GDSS can assist groups, especially groups of managers, in analyzing problem situations and in performing group decision making tasks. GDSS include structured decision tools for tasks like brainstorming, commenting on ideas, and rating and ranking of alternatives…