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Revision as of 17:22, 3 April 2018

Group Decisions Quarter (hereinafter, the Quarter) is the first of four lectures of Operations Quadrivium (hereinafter, the Quadrivium):

The Quadrivium is the first of seven modules of Septem Artes Administrativi, which is a course designed to introduce its learners to general concepts in business administration, management, and organizational behavior.


Outline

The predecessor lecture is Social Rationale Quarter.

Concepts

  • Individual decision making
  • Conformity. The adjustment of one's behavior to align with the norms of the group.
  • Group decision making
  • Survey feedback. The use of questionnaires to identify discrepancies among member perceptions; discussion follows, and remedies are suggested.
  • Groupshift. A change between a group's decision and individual decision that a member within the group would make; the shift can be toward either conservatism or greater risk but it generally is toward a more extreme version of the group's original position.
  • Groupthink. A phenomenon in which the norm for consensus overrides the realistic appraisal of alternative courses of action.
  • Groupthink. When a group exerts extensive pressure on an individual to align her or his opinion with others; opinions.
  • Group. Two or more individuals, interacting and interdependent, who have come together to achieve particular objectives.
  • Group. Two or more interacting and interdependent individuals who come together to achieve specific goals.
  • Hawthorne Studies. A series of studies during the 1920s and 1930s that provided new insights into individual and group behavior.
  • Informal group. A group that is neither formally structured nor organizationally determined; such a group appears in response to the need for social contact.
  • Ingroup favorism. Perspective in which we see members of our ingroup as better than other people, and people not in our group as all the same.
  • Interacting group. A typical group in which members interact with each other face to face.
  • Nominal group technique. A group decision-making method in which individual members meet face to face to pool their judgments in a systematic but independent fashion.
  • Political behavior. Activities that are not required as part of a person's formal role in the organization but that influence, or attempt to influence, the distribution of advantages and disadvantages within the organization.
  • Workgroup. A group that interacts primarily to share information and to make decisions to help each group member perform within his or her area of responsibility.
  • Stereotype threat. The degree to which we internally agree with the generally negative stereotyped perceptions of our groups.

Methods

  • Thumb vote. A quick pulse to get a sense of where the team are in terms of commitment, or agreement on a decision, etc. thumb up generally means agree, yes, or good, and thumb down disagree, no or bad; the analog version of this allows the thumb to be anywhere on the half circle to indicate differing degrees of agreeability.

Instruments

Practices

The successor lecture is Leadership Quarter.

Materials

Recorded audio

Recorded video

Live sessions

Texts and graphics

See also