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Problems with group decisions:

• Avoid - leave for next meeting
• Take too long to make trivial decisions
• Poor quality - compromise
• Lack of commitment to the decision

Concensus decision making:

• Harnesses group resources - synergy
• Encourages participation - high commitment
• Time consuming
• Requires skills such as listening, flexibility...

Majority vote decision making:

• 51% agree - majority committed, minority lack commitment
• Quick - useful if time limited
• Quality issue - consider importance of the decision

Minority vote decision making:

• Working party
• Speed and efficiency
• Potential for low commitment

Expert decision making:

• One person with special knowledge, vested with authority
• From inside or outside the group
• Technical matters, emergencies, safety matters

Random choice decision making:

• Flipping coin, selecting straws
• From inside or outside the group
• Evenly balanced issues - with limited time available

Agree on up-front decision making technique:

• Choose best style and implement it
• How quickly decision needs to be made
• How important decision is
• Resources available - inside and outside the group
• Skills available

Gut-feeling decision making:

• It 'feels right'
• New research on non-logical, 'gut-feeling' - intuition
• Increase in corporate focus on intuition, creativity

• Managers
• All staff

• DVD

• English

• Interview