The group in decision making
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Contents
Elements
Stakeholders
Group disccusion
Matching level of discussion: Discussion in a group is best performed between people who share the same interest. Many people will be ready to discuss with people that they see as a match in intellectual capabilities, and has the same level of knowledge in the topic. The question, therefore, is how to create a group of people that can benefit from working together on a topic.
Needs and Resources
Every stakeholder has several needs and some resources available for the common action, and they have to identify them in order to identify possible solutions that may address the needs.
Psichology
Group thinking and Group polarization
Group thinking[1][2] is a state where the group's SON is unchallenged by criticism. It can be caused by group settings that inhibit any criticism on the group's SON, like excluding members that do not conform to the group's beliefs or denouncing refuting evidence as illusions, heresy or efforts of some other rival ideology to break the group ideology.
Group thinking will cause the group to become conservative, and under influence of perceived danger may cause group polarization. Extremism in social networks.
see also the need-stakeholders cycle
Social Objects Network
References
< references />- ↑ Janis, I. L. (November 1971). "Groupthink". Psychology Today 5 (6): 43–46, 74–76
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors. "Groupthidecision-making The Free Encyclopedia.