Group Decision Making
- The belief characterized by juries that two heads are better than one has long been accepted as a basic component in the legal system of many countries.
- Decision making groups may be widely used in organizations, but does that mean that group decisions are preferable to those managed by individual alone?
Group Decision Making
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Strengths
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Weakness
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Group generates more complete information and knowledge
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Time consuming
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Group offer increased diversity of views. Heterogeneity to the decision process.
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Conformity pressure in groups, (according to practice )
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More approaches and processes to be considered
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Group decision can be dominated by one or a few members
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Groups generates higher quality decision
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Group decisions suffer from ambiguous responsibility. Ambiguity about responsibility and accountability of decision.
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Groups lead to increased acceptance of a solution
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(Ref: Organization Behavior- S.P.Robbins)
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