Taggerty, J. (2009 , March 17). How do leaders prevent group think? . Retrieved from http://5starinnovation.com/how-do-leaders-prevent-group-think/…
Groupthink is everywhere. It’s in school, companies, fashion and religions places. The benefit from groupthinks in these places to share ideas and to know what everyone thinks about. People who like to sit in group for example, in school or in meeting to solve a problem or to share ideas about some homework or brainstorming, Groupthink will be the best idea for that. Not only in school or company business, but also in fashion and artistic, now many of them like…
The primary threat to sound decision making and problem solving with a group that experiences extreme cohesiveness is a phenomenon called groupthink.…
* Group thinking – we are all members of groups (social classes, religions etc.) and all of these groups, intentionally or not, exert pressure on our views.…
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.…
Groupthink is a form of a phenomenon characterized by members of a group choosing to evaluate consensus and conformity and preservation of the group above other values. In the example of Pennsylvania State University football assistant coach Jerry Sandusky abused children. While Sandusky colleague’s choses to protect him rather than doom Penn State image and program. The decision was based primarily on how group members will react rather than what was at the ethical or professional. Primary groups are very important because they leave a long lasting influence on how we develop our social selves. Charles Horton Cooley said that we belong to primary groups because this groups offers use fulfillment of personal needs of belonging.…
The process of groupthink is when one feels that membership in a particular group is important, the individual may allow the group to pressure them into pushing one’s own values aside and rationalize or…
According to study.com website (2015), a groupthink can simply be defined as an occurrence that gives a group of people a fault verdict or a conclusion a that a group has made that is an ineffective decision whereby it was reached just to appease the spirit of harmony among group members than allowing individuals to act independently and creatively. As alluded on, groupthink blocks individual creativity by ignoring alternatives allowing irrational actions to tale precedence. It happens most when individuals have similar background and the group is refusing external opinions. The result are that the decisions are flawed and they often come at a cost.…
The term group think is a negative form of group decision-making event. It influences members in a group to base decision-making on bringing harmony to the group rather than making realistic decisions to bring forth issues to the table. As members of a group, we…
The negative production of this type of Group Think can be confirmed through the Milgram Obedience study. This test was a series of social psychology experiments organized by psychologist Stanley Milgram that measured the willingness of participants to obey an authority figure that directed them to execute acts conflicting with their conscience. In the study, the experimenter orders the teacher (the subject of the experiment) to give painful electric shocks to a learner, who is actually an actor/tape. The teacher believes that for every wrong answer, the learner was undergoing painful electric shocks, although there were no real punishments. After a number of voltage shocks, the actor starts to pretend to be in extreme pain as he bangs on the wall that separates him from the teacher/subject.…
One setting in which groupthink occurs in the movie 12 Angry Men. The movie is about a jury who must reach a verdict of guilty or not guilty on a murder case. 11 out of the 12 jurors vote “guilty”, while one votes “not guilty.” The lonely juror proves his case, and slowly gains alliance. The more people that change the verdict to not guilty, an increase of stress is put on the other jurors. They all end up changing vote to not guilty in the end to gain conformity. Groupthink…
When a group makes unreliable decisions that were lead by group pressures and leads to a worsening of mental performance, reality testing, and moral judgement, it is known as groupthink. When members from a group are similar in background, or when they are insulted from outside opinions, and when there are no clear rules for decision making is when the group is especially vulnerable to groupthink. As for individual humans, they are as well easily susceptible to groupthink because they’re afraid to be themselves, believe in the rightness of their cause, and are under pressure not to express arguments. Often times people find themselves in situations where they’re afraid to be themselves. When they find themselves in this place they choose…
I have always had a different idea of what groupthink really means, to me I thought of it as a bad idea from someone amongst a group of people that had not been voiced seemingly because the person having this thought lacks confidence or backing. More like trying to proof to your business partners that an idea of using an outdated tactic to target a young crowd is not the best idea In its own definition Wikipedia(2013) describes groupthink as a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people, in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an incorrect or deviant decision- making outcome, whereas it can also be viewed as the practice of thinking or making decisions as a group…
This type of dysfunctional operation of an organization has many ways and opportunities for failure. The basic fundamentals of this process are the beginnings of failure as groups seek conformity and unity they sacrifice everything in order to maintain peace within the group. Many times this will take the individuals creative thoughts and ability to voice the creative edge thinking away. In many organizations this is a process that is continually used. It is perceived that management wants the organizations operation or process to run without any type of question or waves. Below are listed eight of the main symptoms of group think as detailed by Janis, I. L & Manns book "Decision making"…
Groupthink is when the majority of people in a group have the same idea and someone one with a different opinion feels like they must be wrong rather than the whole group. They then follow the group unquestioningly. (Sociology and Social Psych Concepts) In Germany at this time, there was a large quantity of people who agreed with what Hitler said, which made the people who didn’t feel outcast. They would then join the group because they “must be wrong” if they are the only one. Although some people felt like they should help the Jews, the thought of being different from the majority scared them ,so they remained silent.…