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Taking Advantage of Conflicts in Group Decision Making
Anneke Zwart, Student (University), Netherlands, Moderator
In past research it was often argued that group decision making (GDM) improves if task-conflicts are present.
Task-conflicts are different opinions about the content and outcomes of the task being
performed.
 Why this positive effect? Because task-conflicts prevent premature consensus and encourage critical thinking. It seems obvious. But other studies found no such relationship or even a negative one. The relationship between tasks conflicts and good GDM is thus ambiguous.
De Wit, Jehn and Scheepers have recently discovered that another factor is playing an important role when we're analyzing the extent to which task-conflicts are beneficial for GDM: the presence (or absence) of a relationship conflict.
According to the authors, task conflicts are more likely to have ...
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How to Measure Relationship Conflict?
Ben Smith, Manager, United Kingdom, Member It must be difficult to measure the presence/absence of relationship conflict in studies of GDM as these are often masked over in the business world. ... |
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Conflict can be a Source of Inspiration
Ruwan Bandara, Manager, Sri Lanka, Member Conflicts motivate us to think in an extraordinary way. For example in the 1970s and 1980s during the cold war between USA and Soviet Russia.
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Group Bonding and Tenure is Important
DANNY SUSIKWANA, Accountant, Zambia, Member Relationship conflicts may help enhance GDM. However this does not apply to all kinds of groups. Groups which benefit from relationship conflicts |
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Conflicts in GDM
Willie Odemwingie, Lecturer, Nigeria, Member People that make up a group are usually from different backgrounds. They may be from different discipline, family, culture and have other inherent tra... |
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How to Benefit from Group Decision Making?
Satya Narayan, Strategy Consultant, India, Member 1. First the organisation needs to ensure conflicts do not arise from relationships. Implementation and maintenance of well defined processes, job des... |
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Group Conflict Management
NVDS.RAJU, Professor, India, Member Group conflicts on matters of importance is a welcome and healthy sign. Perhaps it will facilitate the entity to know the unknown risks and help to he... |
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How to Benefit from Conflicts in a Group
Ruwan Bandara, Manager, Sri Lanka, Member I was delighted the different perspective post of all of us. This discussion forum is a great and classic example of conflict. Each of us has a unique... |
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23 Aspects of the Human System
DANNY SUSIKWANA, Accountant, Zambia, Member @ srinivas: I find the reference to the 23 aspects (sleep, hunger, etc) a very insightful area. However I am not sur... |
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ASPECTS IN HUMAN SYSTEM
srinivas, Lecturer, India, Member Please find here the requested list of human aspects which we can look into.
I think experiential based approach can be considered for the follow... |
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The Purpose of Group Decision Making
kvssiyer, Consultant, India, Member The very purpose of group decision making is to make certain the decision arrived at is the result of evaluating the quality of decisions from all ang... |
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Black & White Hat Together
Ruwan Bandara, Manager, Sri Lanka, Member @ Gary Wong: This idea is not wrong. Using Six Hats in this situation is a great idea. Why most managers are failing... |
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Colours Can Have Different Meanings
Gary Wong, Consultant, Canada, SIG Leader Hi, everyone. Ruwan and I have been messaging each other on our personal pages. A couple of points have arisen:
1. 6Th works well for GDM ranging... |
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