Concept information
Preferred term
group decision making
Definition
- Decisions are often made in groups: sometimes to maximize the quality of the decision, sometimes because the decision makers are all stakeholders, and sometimes to diffuse, or obscure, responsibility. Group decisions range from formal committees to casual conversations, and research has examined the impact on quality, creativity, dedication, and risk tolerance. [Source: Encyclopedia of the Mind; Group Decision Making]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- anticonformity
- brainstorming
- cliques
- coalitions
- collective induction
- common knowledge effect
- computer simulations
- conformity
- consensus
- Delphi technique
- dominance hierarchies
- escalation of commitment
- graduated reciprocation in tension reduction
- group cohesiveness
- group composition
- group emotions
- group memory
- group mind
- group motivation
- group performance
- group polarization
- group problem solving and decision making
- group structure
- group task
- groupthink
- hidden profile task
- idiosyncrasy credit
- inclusion/exclusion
- informational influence
- juries
- leniency contract
- mediation
- minority influence
- Muzafer Sherif
- need for closure
- negotiation and bargaining
- normative influence
- obedience to authority
- opinion deviance
- power dependence theory
- reference groups
- referent informational influence theory
- relational cohesion theory
- relational model of authority in groups
- Serge Moscovici
- shared mental models
- social decision schemes
- Solomon Asch
- status
- status characteristics/expectation states theory
- status construction theory
- team negotiation
- work teams
Belongs to group
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/group_decision_making
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