Group Decision Making - Process
Decisions regarding organisational issues are made in many ways. They are
- Individual Vs. Group
- Autocratic Vs. Participative
( Decisions that are made in due course are implemented by the people in many ways . They are
- Individual implementation Vs. Group implementation )
This blog focuses on Group Decision Making process.
The things this process includes:
- How GDP will / shall be done ?
- What are the important things that need to kept in mind ?
- What is effective group decision making process means ?
- Who are the right members to be part of group which makes the decisions ?
Apply group decision making process for Tower Building exercise ?
What are the decisions which the group will make ?
Who are the members of the group ?
What are the implications of I - E, I- G, and G- E decision indices for group decision making process followed in case of Tower Building exercise?
I- E must be minimum - This indice means that individual who is part of the group is expert. Lower indice reflects ones ideas, beliefs, arguments are much closer to the expert being the best. This otherwise means that individual whose I - E is minimum is the RIGHT person to be part of a group and lead the decision making.
But there some real uuestions that crop here:
Is that a RIGHT person ( who is expert ) can really influence the group to take RIGHT decisions ?
Is it that all experts automatically lead the groups to RIGHT decisions ?
Is it that NOT SO EXPERTS ( whose I - E is much more ..) can also guide the group to RIGHT decisions ?
All these things can be understood by looking at the next TWO indices
G - E must be minimum: It means that group has made the decision(s) which are much more similar and closer to expert. Again it will be wonderful if the group after so much of discussion and deliberations comes to such a RIGHT decision. This reflects the effective decision.
I - G must be minimum: This indice reflects how different and similar the individual's ideas, beliefs to that of the group as a whole. In case, I - G is maximum it means that individual's ideas are different from the group. who is part of the group is expert. His / her ideas, beliefs, arguments are much closer to the expert being the best. This otherwise means that individual whose I - E is minimum is the RIGHT person to lead the group in its decision making.
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Group Decision Making – Some issues
WHO ……
Is all expert group make
effective decisions?
How a novice group members
vis-a- vis expert decision will be different ?
HOW ……What processes need
to be put in place ?
Conscious Collaboration ,
Contribution, Cooperation, Participative and Productive Decisions ..
EFFECTIVE DECISIOIN means
what .. ?
Novice members meet and arrive at expert decision
Expert members meet and arrive at expert decision
Group Decisions -
Paradoxes
Social Loafing -
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