weaknesses of group decision making which may perhaps lead to an improvement in organisational decision making. In order for an organisation to exist there must be a collection of people trying to achieve the same purpose. Several issues arise when a group comes together to discuss ideas and formulate plans effecting the organisation. Performance becomes more effective and efficient when proper techniques are used to accomplish a specific task or activity. Brainstorming‚ the nominal group technique as
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others within the group the process can become tainted. Eventually “ concurrence-seeking becomes so dominant in a cohesive ingroup that it tends to override realistic appraisal of alternative courses of action”1. The group’s original purpose of creation becomes more and more ineffective as long as groupthink festers without treatment. What is groupthink exactly? According to psychologists is “deterioration in mental efficiency‚ reality testing and moral judgments as a result of group pressures”1. In
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through groupthink often result in decisions appearing well founded and heavily supported‚ however the outcomes of such decisions are most frequently detrimental. Factors of cognitive dissonance are quite often evident in members of groupthink decisions‚ with individuals finding in reflection that they generally possessed ideas starkly contrasting the concepts which they just publically supported. Such incongruity in beliefs and decisions according to Hackman and Johnson arise when groups “put unanimous
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the challenger case. It will touch down on how the type organizational culture at NASA contributed to the disaster‚ how the organizational structures and communication patterns contributed to flawed decision making and the role that leadership also played in the disaster. Also‚ the paper will cover how ethics apply to the case‚ and the many different ethical levels that can be discussed regarding the disaster and finally‚ it will discuss who was responsible for the "seriously flawed" decision making
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Group think. This week’s reading addressed some interesting points‚ but in several of those points overlooked a crucial aspect. What was overlooked was that in several of the groups talked about the leader of the group had unquestionable power. The question I would pose is how groups would overcome the groupthink mentality when they have to please appease the ideas of a single individual. In the reading the examples that were used involved the President of the United States and his cabinet members
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The ethical situation surrounding the decision to launch the space shuttle Challenger in January 1986 involved the highest level of management at three space centers: Kennedy Space Center in Florida‚ Johnson Space Center in Houston‚ and the Marshall Space Flight Center. Management and engineers with Morton Thiokol‚ a NASA contractor that manufactured the solid booster rockets‚ also joined these discussions that resulted in catastrophic failure. Launch discussions took place throughout the day and
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FLYING SHUTTLE ` Many of us will have studied the Industrial Revolution at schools and heard of the ‘Flying Shuttle’. Well what is it and why was it such an important invention? * A single person operating a loom from home‚ could only produce a piece of cloth that was as wide as their outstretched arms because they had to be able to throw the shuttle‚ carrying the weft‚ the horizontal yarn‚ through the waft‚ the vertical yarn and catch it. * If wider cloth was needed it took two or
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Case Analysis 1. Which strategy- cost leadership‚ differentiation‚ or focus- is Shuttle America following? Explain. We think Shuttle America maintained its focus. Even though they had lots of competitors in the United States‚ they never took their eye of the prize. They remained focused even though looking for their startup capital was hard to produce in the first place. And in order to care for their patronizing customers‚ they kept their mechanics internally‚ meaning‚ they never hired outside
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remember the day of the Challenger Disaster. I was five years old and in kindergarten. My teacher‚ Ms. Epton‚ brought us outside to watch the shuttle launch; something many kids have to watch on television‚ but those of us living on the coast got to witness firsthand. I remember seeing the fiery glow of the shuttle‚ the gasps by the adults‚ and quickly being hurried back into the classroom. Not much was said about what had happened‚ it was not until later that I fully understood. Space exploration was magical
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destruction (WMD) in Iraq and Saddam Hussein was a national threat to the U.S.‚ this decision to enter Iraq was highly controversial‚ within the U.S. and internationally. Even over a decade‚ the Iraq War is still being seen as “the worst foreign policy blunder
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