Group decision-making - Integration
3 important questions on Group decision-making - Integration
What happens when a group interaction is mainly preference driven?
These groups will usualy adopt the majority's position without much discussion and minorities might be disregarded or silenced.
What happens when a group interaction is primarily information driven?
What conditions may lead groups to use an information- rather than a preference-driven decision strategy?
- Preference diversity, when different members have different preferences, it is not really possible to arrive at a group decision by merely exchanging preferences.
- Group members' certainty will be lower, because other group members have come to a different conclusion.
- Having mutually recognized areas of expertise suggests that group members have unique unshared information, which may lead groups to adopt an information-driven strategy.
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