Group Decision Making

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This paper examines how decision making is an extremely important activity in our professional and personal lives. It looks at how it has been found that decisions resulting from group brainstorming are of higher quality than the solutions discovered by an individual, due to the involvement of more than one person and a conglomeration of ideas that are sorted and sifted to reach the most effective solution. It also attempts to show that group decision making can be highly effective if certain guidelines are followed and how it is important for each member to participate enthusiastically and work together to minimize risks of conflict.

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"Group decision-making process follows certain important steps to reach effective solutions or discover suitable answers to various questions. Usually groups are invited to participate in a decision-making process when a problem has arisen which requires help from more than one head. Small teams are formed and they are given a problem to discuss and seek a solution to. "Group decisions that usually require a substantial amount of deliberation, negotiation, and accommodation prior to an acceptable outcome." (Ruppel, 1997) However just asking a group to reach a suitable solution might prove to be counter productive if the team has little or no idea of the steps that are to be followed."

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