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Sample.pptx5 Decision Making Pitfalls
Conflicting secondary goals
Undesirable Compromises/Confirmation Bias.
Individual Domination.
Ambiguous Responsibility.
Time Consuming
Evidently, group decision making is the best form of coming up with a solution for different scenarios facing an organization.
However, it has some challenges that face the entire decision making process. The six main challenges are Conflicting secondary goals, undesirable compromises or confirmation bias, individual dominance, ambiguous responsibility, time consuming and social pressure to conform.
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Pitfalls of Group Decision Making
Conflicting Secondary Goals
Some team members portray individualism biasness
Changing the process into a competition for the best ideas.
Some members value winning the debate process.
Some members use the opportunity to further their individual goals.
In a group decision making some members of the team tend to have their personal interests to protect. Their decisions are individualistic which comprises of extra individual bias hence unreliable. At times some members are self centered and prefer to win the debate rather than make a good decision (Lunenburg, 2010). Similarly, there are members who are power hungry and might use such decision making process as a means of campaigning for promotion hence they will do anything to ensure their decision is listened to whether good or bad.
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Pitfalls of Group Decision Making
2. Undesirable Compromises/Confirmation Bias.
In a group people always have different views on the same issue.
Undesirable compromises lead to low decisions.
Some members will always find evidence that support their decisions.
Some members might not be cooperative enough to make the necessary comprises if they are against their stand.
Whenever a group is attempting to make a decision on a controversial issue, members tend to come up with different points of view known as the undesirable compromises which hinder decision making.
In such cases there is a risk of a low quality decision to avoid compromises or favoring either side of the group.
Some group members may portray confirmation bias by finding evidences that are in favor of their decisions (Thompson, 2018).
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Pitfalls of Group Decision Making.
3. Individual Domination.
Team Managers are always the leaders of the team and may tend to dominate.
Some team members also have the domineering personality and would be on the forefront for attention.
Such dominating individual tend to carry the show.
Individual domination is where one member of the group takes total charge and controls the group. In group decision making, there is always a risk of one individual dominating the decision making process due to difference in rank and status. Usually this results in resentment from some team members thus preventing them from participating fully in the process leading to individual biasness.
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Pitfalls of Group Decision Making.
4. Ambiguous Responsibility.
The decision made in a group is always universal.
It represents the voice of the entire members of the group with no one to take responsibility for the outcomes of the decision.
Its risk is usually high because it is a collective responsibility rather than an individuals decision.
In a group process there is no way to say for sure who is accountable for the final decision made, probably the responsibility of the decision can be diffused equally among the group members. This phenomenon leads to risk shift and makes people feel less responsible for any outcomes from the decision made in a group (Stoner, 1968).
The risk of the group decision tends to be higher than the risk of an individual decision.
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Pitfalls of Group Decision Making
5. Time Consuming
The group decision making process involves procedures such as consensus, voting, compromise and authority rule which are time consuming
Source: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/introductiontocommunication/chapter/decision-making-in-groups/
Group decision making process usually takes longer than an individual decision because the team members must interact and debate on possible solution before they can reach a consensus. The group decision making follows a particular process and procedures as below. These procedures take time to complete.
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References
Lunenburg, F. (2010). Group Decision Making [Ebook]. NATIONAL FORUM OF TEACHER EDUCATION JOURNAL. Retrieved 29 April 2020, from http://www.nationalforum.com/Electronic%20Journal%20Volumes/Lunenburg,%20Fred%20C.%20Group%20Decision%20Making%20NFTEJ%20V20%20N3%202010.pdf.
Stoner (1968). Risky and cautious shifts in group decisions: The influence of widely held values. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 4, 442-459.
Thompson, L. (2018). Making the team (6th ed.). Pearson
