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.…
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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…
Groups are often called upon within organizations when important decisions need to be made. This happens mostly when members of the group are different with respect to the information and the expertise they can provide. Groups more than likely will perform than individuals in terms of the quality of the decisions they make (Homan, van Knippenbert, Van Keef & De Dreu, 2007).…
Rogelberg, S. G., Barnes-Farrell, J. L. and Lowe, C. A. (1992) The Stepladder Technique: an alternative group structure facilitating effective group decision-making: Journal of Applied Psychology…
Here are ways to make a group decision: Identify the decision to be made, analyze the issue under discussion, establish criteria to determine whether the chosen solution is doable, brainstorm potential solutions, evaluate options and select the best one, implement the solution, finally monitor and evaluate the outcome.…
In the workplace, the team leader's job is to make decisions that benefit the team and the whole company. This places them with a lot of responsibility. They must contemplate the options and consciously select the decision-making strategy most appropriate for the circumstances in which the decision will be made and implemented. Often the decision-making style chosen is among the most significant roles of the project manager. Communication and interpersonal skills of the group members influence the decision. The incorrect approach can cause problems within the group. "Research conducted by Wheelen, Murphy, Tsumura and Kline (1998) demonstrates a clear correlation between positive group dynamics and team productivity". There are many decision-making strategies available. Three of the most common styles are when decisions are made by the group leader alone, decisions by the leader after group discussion, and consensus by the whole group.…
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 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).…
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 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.…
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.…
Three techniques for involving groups in the decision making process: Brainstorming members of the group contribute ideas toward solving problems. The nominal group technique remove individual controlling the discussion, prepared to provide equal, dependent, and participation of all members. The Delphi technique the group leader distributes written questionnaires, equal contribution of all group members, even through the group members never meet.…
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…