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Group Decision Making TABLE OF CONTENTS

This research examines the concept of group decisionmaking. The function of group decisionmaking is discussed first, and this discussion is followed by consideration of specific group decisionmaking techniques.

Decision making in organizations has been described as a process of behavior with the economic model (or total ration ality) at one extreme, and with the social model (or complete irrationality) at the other extreme (Kimberly, & Rottman, 1987). This description implies that only irrational decision making accords human values precedence over economic values. In the organizational environments of the late1980s, leaders must find some middle ground between these extremes, for it is evident that neither set of values can be ignored. In many organizations, managers have been confronted with the tasks of making severe, undesirable, and unpleasant cuts of personnel and services in a hasty manner, because, in part, they failed to heed economic values in earlier decisions. Similarly, organizations have often been forced to retract decisions, and to act in confusing manners, in chaotic situations, because, in part, they failed to heed human values in reaching earlier

1 2decisions. A better approach to decisionmaking is obviously required by many organizations.

In the late1980s, it is recognized that the application of specific approaches to decisionmaking must, to some extent, consider leadership styles, personalities, and organizational requirements (Lenz, & Engledow, 1986). First, in the context of organizational conflict which often develops at the time of change implementation, the decisionmaking behaviors of managers and administrators significantly affect the development of such conflict, and these decisionmaking behaviors are products of the leadership styles of the administrators and managers (Schilit, & Paine, 1987). Second, specific approaches to decisionmaking will often be shunned, if th...

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