Foundations of group behaviour - group decision making

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Weaknesses of group decision making

  • Time consuming
  • there are conformity pressures
  • group discussions can be dominated by one or a few members
  • suffer from ambiguous responsibility

What are conformity pressures

The desire by group members to be accepted and considered an asset to the group

Group decision are more effective in

  • Creativity
  • acceptance of achievable solutions
  • Higher grades + faster learning
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What is interacting groups

Typical groups in which members interact with each other, relying on both verbal and nonverbal communications

Steps of nominal group technique

  1. Members independently records ideas about the problem
  2. each member presents one idea to the group. No discussion takes place
  3. the group discusses the ideas for clarity and evaluates them
  4. each group member silently and independently rank order of the ideas

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