decision making process may also be subverted by (1) the dominance of a single individual, and (2) the development of a competitive win lose culture among participants. While not being cause for the elimination of group decision making in organizational settings, the problems which may characterize group decision making must be effectively addressed within an organization, if effective decisions are expected to derive from a group decision making process.
With respect to decision making, quality circles are encompassed generally in the nominal group decision making technique, and more specifically in the team building approach to decision making. The nominal group technique is a group decision making process which seeks consensus within an
environment of interdependence (Steiner, 1982). It is a participative technique applied typically in small groups.
The essence of any form of participative management is that the decision making process is not authoritarian those individuals who are affe
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