COMMERCE 1BA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Group Polarization, Organizational Commitment, Organizational Culture

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Commerce
• Course: COMMERCE 1BA3
• Professor: Asghar Bokhari

Document Summary

Questions for assignment 2: communication: barriers and stuff , individual decision-making: mostly on bounded. Groups or teams can make higher quality decisions than individuals: generate more ideas. Diffusion of responsibility: the ability of group members to share the burden of. If there is a negative consequence, it doesn"t come back just at you. 4 key disadvantages **: time: its not as quick or efficient as 1 person because of process losses, more debating and coordinating, conflict: disadvantage that more conflict. But conflict can be good: political wrangling. Its in fighting i"m in commerce and you"re not : domination: 1 person or a small coalition dominates meetings. The 1 big mouth can intimidate the group. If he doesn"t know: groupthink *****on mc: people feeling pressure to conform. Pf 403: capacity for group pressure to damage the mental efficiency, reality, testing, moral judgement of decision-making groups, develops because of too much cohesiveness, concern for approval and isolation of the group.