OB & HRM

Assignment 1

Question: After thoroughly going through the reading “Making Dumb Groups Smarter:
The New Science of Group Decision Making” briefly explain (in your own words) the errors
that can occur during group decision making. Further summarize the techniques
recommended for making the group’s wiser.

Guidelines: -The answer should not be more than 500 words.

-Writing similarity with any other student or original document will result in
negative grading.
-Due date: 12th September-2021
-Upload your completed assignment on LSE portal before the due date

Inorder to make Dump groups motor the various methods are adopted by the new science of group
decision making for this purpose they adopt the various kinds of scientific tools that help them to
hear. For this purpose they adopt the various methods like the soil is that it is often promote the cell
by expressing their own views clearly and Prime thinking is another important method reward group
success as sin roll appoint a devil's advocate establish constrained themes and the Delphi Method
are adapted to make dump group smarter and there are some errors occurred during the decision-
making they are informational signal people are usually learn from one another here the problem is
that a group may become wrong when some members receive incorrect signal from the other
members this one of the most important error amplifying Errors is another important error
overconfidence leads to to the forecast which are more accurate and precise than the fact they are
and the server components needed to the error which is known as amplifying error the sunk cost
fallacy will also lead to the hopeless project car skidding to the wrong answer is the another
important error occurs during this decision making.

Answer: The article, "Making Dumb Groups Smarter: The New Science of Group Decision Making",
by Cass R. Sunstein and Reid Hastie, describes the common ways in which groups get off tracked
and the various problems they have to face because of those poor or self-destructive decisions. The
author mentions main problems faced which are as follows:

People in the group are hesitant to correct the errors of their fellows and hence end up amplifying
them. When group members talk to one another, they make each other more confident in the biases
started. The availability heuristic leads us to hold on to anything that comes immediately to our mind
because it is memorable or we recently experienced it. The representativeness