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,


     
 
 
 
    

 

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used to illustrate behavioral interdependency. In this instance, the market cannot exist, unless there is at least one buyer and one seller. Each part is dependent upon the other to create the activity which constitutes the market. 9 It is also important to note that outcome and behavioral interdependencies are interdependent of one another. Thus, the two forms of interdependency may either exist (1) simultaneously within an organization's environment, or (2) alone within an organization's environment. Open systems transform the energy made available to them. The organization "creates a new product, or processes materials, or trains people, or provides a service. These activities entail some reorganization of input. Some work gets done in the system" (Bertrand, 1987, p. 213). Open system organizations "export some product into the environment. The pattern of activities of . . . energy exchange has a cyclic character. The product exported into the environment furnishes the sources of energy for the repetition of the cycle of activities" (Bertrand, 1987, p. 215). To "survive, open systems must move to arrest the entropic process; they must acquire negative entropy" (Bertrand, 1987, p. 216). So

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