"Group decision-making is a situation faced when individuals collectively make a choice from the alternatives before them."
The process of making decisions within a group or team setting, including factors that influence group decision making, such as group size, diversity, and member interaction.
"All the individuals and social group processes such as social influence contribute to the outcome."
"The decisions made by groups are often different from those made by individuals."
"Collaborative decision-making is one of the most successful models to generate buy-in from other stakeholders, build consensus, and encourage creativity."
"Decisions made collectively also tend to be more effective than decisions made by a single individual."
"Under normal everyday conditions, collaborative or group decision-making would often be preferred and would generate more benefits than individual decision-making when there is the time for proper deliberation, discussion, and dialogue."
"In extreme emergencies or crisis situations, other forms of decision-making might be preferable as emergency actions may need to be taken more quickly with less time for deliberation."
"Group polarization can occur at times, leading some groups to make more extreme decisions than those of its individual members, in the direction of the individual inclinations."
"The Bay of Pigs invasion, the incident on which the groupthink model of group decision-making is based."
"Groups high in cohesion, in combination with other antecedent conditions, have been noted to have a negative effect on group decision-making and hence on group effectiveness."
"When individuals make decisions as part of a group, there is a tendency to exhibit a bias towards discussing shared information (i.e. shared information bias)."
"Group decision-making is also known as collaborative decision-making or collective decision-making."
"Certain collaborative arrangements have the potential to generate better net performance outcomes than individuals acting on their own."
"Collaborative decision-making can be achieved through the use of committee, teams, groups, partnerships, or other collaborative social processes."
"To generate buy-in from other stakeholders, build consensus, and encourage creativity."
"According to the idea of synergy, decisions made collectively also tend to be more effective than decisions made by a single individual."
"Under normal everyday conditions, collaborative or group decision-making would often be preferred and would generate more benefits than individual decision-making when there is the time for proper deliberation, discussion, and dialogue."
"In extreme emergencies or crisis situations, other forms of decision-making might be preferable as emergency actions may need to be taken more quickly with less time for deliberation."
"In extreme emergencies or crisis situations, other forms of decision-making might be preferable as emergency actions may need to be taken more quickly with less time for deliberation."
"There is a tendency to exhibit a bias towards discussing shared information (i.e. shared information bias)."