GROUP DECISION MAKING

                                         GROUP DECISION MAKING

     Group decisions involve two or more people, are participatory, and result in choices that are responsibility of the group rather than any individual.  Group decision making is subject to social influences that provide advantages as well as disadvantages in decision outcomes.

     There are a number of potential advantages in group decision making chief among them are shared information

     Group decision making (also known as collaborative decision making) is when individuals collectively make a choice from the alternative before them.  Such decisions are not attributable to any single individual, but to the group as a whole.  By definition, group decisions are participatory, and often a members’s contribution is directly proportional to the degree to which a particular decision would affect him or her.  Group decisions are subject to factors such as social subject to factors such as social influence, including peer pressure, and group dynamics.  These social elements can affect the process by which decisions are reached and the decision outcomes themselves.  A group can make decisions by consensus, in which all members come to agreement, or it may take a majority-rules approach and select the alternative favored by most members.