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Quiz Decision Making
Quiz Decision Making
YES No
Occasionally
Definitely
YES Include (margins
Do subordinate have Include
with expertise)
expertise
Occasionally
Definitely
NO Include (margins
exclude
with stake)
9. What is groupthink? When do you think a team is particularly vulnerable to group think? (1+1)
Groupthink is a phenomenon when a group of people get together and start to think collectively.
Where people may not express potential alternates due to fear of exclusion
Conditions:
Opinion of team leader is known
Team is highly cohesive
Team is isolated from outside influences
Team has recent decision failures
10. What are non-decisions? (1)
Decisions which are made tacitly—either individually or in groups—without ever being publicly discussed or
questions.
Non-decision-making involves suppressing challenges to the status quo and suppressing the addition of new issues to
an agenda.