MGMT 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Santa Barbara City College, Delphi Method, Satisficing
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Advantages of this to happen group must be made of diverse participants: greater pool of knowledge, different perspectives, intellectual stimulation, better understanding of decision rationale, deeper commitment to the decision. Points to consider, groups are: less efficient: size affects decision quality, too confident, knowledge counts. Consensus occur when members are able to express their opinions and reach agreement to support the final decision. Brainstorming generate multiple ideas and alternatives for solving problems. Electronic brainstorming(brain writing) when members of a group come together over a computer network to generate ideas and alternatives. Delphi technique a group process that uses physically dispersed experts who fill out questionnaires to anonymously generate ideas; the judgements are combined and in effect averaged to achieve a consensus of expert opinion. Organisational (corporate) culture according to scholar edgar schein it is a system of shared beliefs and values that develops within an organisation and guides the behaviour of its members.
