Leadership & Group Decision Making Flashcards
What is brainstorming?
Group generates a lot of ideas quickly.
There is no inhibitions about quality.
The group as a whole is twice as creative when group members work alone.
What 4 explanations are there for brain storming?
Evaluation apprehension: people want to make a good impression.
Social loafing and free-riding.
Production matching: performance norm constructed based on average group performance.
Production blocking: creativity + productivity blocked by interruptions, turn taking, listening to others.
What is the definition of groupthink.
A mode of thinking that people engage in when they are keeping involved in a cohesive in-group. When he members’ strivings for unanimity override their motivation to realistically appease alternative course of action.
What does coherent seeking tendency lead to?
Defective decision making.
What are some weakness of the evidence found for groupthink?
Based on observations made from historical accounts of group decision making.
Detailed analysis of the process not outcome.
Both good and bad decisions can be due to groupthink.
Name a new way in which groupthink has been rethought.
It may not be groups that are the problem but the norms.
Different cultures place different values on decision making.
Explain the effects of group remembering.
Group remembering is superior but this is less on complex and realistic tasks.
This could be due to process loss.
Explain the effects of groups on transactive memory.
Groups remember significantly more as different group members remember different things.
Groups can develop sophisticated memory systems not just category-based.
