How Does Groupthink Affect Decision Making in an Organasation.

MZUZU UNIVERSITY

TEACHERS OF EDUCATION

DEPARTMENT OFEDUCATION AND EDUCATING STUDIES

ASIGNMENT NUMBER TWO

BY: FRANCES SIMWINGA

REG. NUMBER: BAE/2A/169/10

TO: DR . G. M. NDENGU (PhD)

PROGRAM: SOCIAL PSCHOLOGY

COURSE CODE: ETS 3502

TASK: THE MAJORITY OF THE DECISIONS BUILT AT GATHERINGS CAN BE RELATED TO GROUPTHINK. FROM WHAT YOU HAVE READ IN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, HOW DOES GROUPTHINK AFFECT DECISION MAKING IN AN ORGANISATION THAT YOU KNOW?

DUE: 14th SUMMER, 2013.

HOW CAN GROUPTHINK AFFECT DECISION MAKING WITHIN AN ORGANASATION. Colman(2001) in a book of mindset defines groupthink as " a communautaire pattern of defensive avoidance, characteristic of a group decision making in organisations in which group members develop rationalisations in supporting confusion of their own infallibility and invulnerability within the organisation. ”p. 318. It includes that there is really concurrence than critical thinking when making decisions in an enterprise. This article will talk about how groupthink can affect decision making in an enterprise such as school, political get together and airtel (Business Company). Groupthink may cause poor performance or even failing to achieve the organisations objectives. The tendency of seeking guerre des assureurs can one example is make an incorrect decision sucess (Shepherd, 1964). For instance, a cafeteria panel can change the supplier of food stuffs. If the group does not objectively consider the decision may wrap up selecting poor food stuffs that may be detrimental to the students. Coon and Mitterer (2007) state that the urge to make such decisions may arise through the need to maintain others authorization even in the cost of important thinking. In apolitical get together groupthink ends in poor portion of solutions. For example , functions spend significant amounts of resources of University Party Wings in...

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