Managerial Decisions- B

Positives:

• more strategies
• increased legitimacy/knowledge
• positive synergy/motivation
• successful implementation
• less errors 
• snowball effect

Negatives:

• quick commitment to ideas
• cost/time increased
• leader may dominate
• ambiguous responsibility
• clash of ideas/minority views
• different goals
• Group Think

Group members share a strong desire to reach a consensus that they lose the ability to critically evaluate all points of view:

• sense of invulnerability and righteousness- creates excessive optimism that encourages risk taking
• pressures to conform
• dissenters pressurised- members are under pressure not to express arguments
• illusion of unanimity- majority view is thought to be unanimous
• rationalisation/discounting warnings
• stereotyped views of other competing groups
• loss of independent thinking/creativity

• task/objective well understood
• some disagreement
• non dominating chair
• everyone participates/listens
• consensus seeking
• decision process reviewed

Risky Shift- people want to shift towards risky decisions to gain status/approval                          from other members, as they need to be seen as brave

                   => shared blame, exposure to wide range of views