“The Social Side of Decision Making”
Unit 5 Individual Project
For: Walter McCord
BUS300-0703A-03 Decision Making
Although group judgments tend to be more accurate than individual judgments, accuracy depends in part upon how group members combine their answers (Davis, 1973). It is also the case that group judgment and decision making has not received as much attention as individual judgment and decision making, despite the ubiquity of committees, panels, boards, injuries, and other decision making bodies. Furthermore, the line between individual and group research is often blurred by the fact that groups are, ultimately, comprised of individuals (Plous, 1993). Recently, I participated in a group project to develop a strategic plan for the CEO to determine the problem with employee attitudes, moral, initiative and preventive measures to keep group members from being effected by bad group habits. Knowing the five types of group techniques, we opted to do things our way taking a nugget from each to come to a consensus.
Janet Sniezek compared five types of group techniques: (1) “consensus,” in which face-to-face discussions led to one judgment accepted by all group members; (2) the “dialectic” technique, in which group members were required to discuss factors that might be biasing their judgments; (3) the “dictator” technique (a.k.a. the best member technique), in which face-to-face discussions led to the selection of one group member whose judgment represented the group; (4) the “Delphi” technique, in which group members did not meet face-to-face, but instead, provided answers anonymously in a series of “rounds” until a consensus was reached or until the median judgment stabilized (the advantage of thi ...