...Decision-Making Making decisions within a group of individuals can be a tedious, complicated, and lengthy process. Employees often work within a group setting and make vital decisions that affect the entire company. Occasionally the intricacy of an issue calls for the expertise and opinions of those employees who are subject matter experts in order to make a sound decision. Participation within the group decision-making process improves individual commitment to these decisions. Decision-making is not an easy task; a group may separate and refuse to work together to reach consensus or the same group may form a group think and stick to a decision that is familiar to them that is mutually acceptable for all involved without considering any other alternatives that may be better for the organization. Awareness of group decision-making techniques can assist managers with effectively comprehending and steer group decision making processes. Describe the Group Decision-Making Process As individuals, people making thousands of decisions daily. While working in a group setting, the number of decisions these individuals make expands. Both the individual members of the group and the group as a whole are making decisions. Begin with thinking about the first decision people make each day. This decision is most likely influenced by one of the last decisions made the day before-what time to wake up! As simple as this may seem, choosing what time to get up immediately affects the...
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...Improving Performance Teams work better with expanded problem solving and decision making skills by Helene F. Uhlfelder E VERYONE KNOWS THAT THE PURPOSE OF teams is high performance. In the past it was enough that teams or quality circles got involved in solving problems and sharing some of the decision-making responsibilities. Now the success of organizations hinges on the ability of teams to make tough decisions and solve complex problems on a daily basis. This article’s aim is to provide a better understanding of the factors that influence problem solving and decision making and to provide a seven-step model and procedures to use to improve team performance. improvement cultures or team systems teach their employees tools to use in reaching decisions and solving problems. Whether these tools have four steps or seven steps, they have four basic components: problem definition, data collection to verify the root cause of the problem, solution generation and action planning, including a mechanism for tracking how well the chosen solution works. These tools are sometimes not used at all and sometimes are used religiously for everything. Yet, it is rare to find teams that understand the nature of problems and know how to choose the right tool or technique to use in a A different mind-set particular situation. Most organizations that implement total quality management, continuous Furthermore, team members rarely understand ...
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...Tools for Process Improvement Module 3 DECISION-MAKING TOOLS DECISION-MAKING TOOLS 1 Basic Tools for Process Improvement What are team Decision-Making Tools? Two tools frequently used by teams to make decisions are Multivoting and Nominal Group Technique. While idea-generating tools such as Brainstorming produce a list of possible alternatives, Multivoting and Nominal Group Technique help to identify the important or popular items or prioritize the items on a list (Viewgraph 1). NOTE: It is important to remember that not all decisions are made in a team situation. Of those decisions that are made by teams, not every one is going to be made using these tools. How does a team select the right tool to use? ! Try Multivoting if you need to: > Reduce a long list of ideas and assign priorities quickly and with a high degree of team agreement > Identify the important items on a list ! Try Nominal Group Technique if you need a more structured approach to: > Generate, clarify, and evaluate a sizable list of ideas, problems, or issues > Prioritize the items on a list 2 DECISION-MAKING TOOLS Basic Tools for Process Improvement Tools for Making Decisions • Multivoting > Reduces long lists of ideas > Identifies important items • Nominal Group Technique > Generates ideas > Prioritizes items DECISION-MAKING TOOLS VIEWGRAPH 1 DECISION-MAKING TOOLS 3 Basic Tools for Process Improvement 4 DECISION-MAKING TOOLS Basic Tools for Process Improvement ...
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...Decision- Making Paper AJS/512 December 4, 2013 Decision- Making Paper The purpose for this paper is to describe the group decision-making process in any organization. The paper will have one successful and one unsuccessful experience that involved with group decision-making. After these example the paper will discus the factor that affects the group’s overall effectiveness, drawing from the text. In any organization individual, team, and group decision-making process is part of every day life. In today’s society there are different thinking styles and decision-making because of the different diversity. Thinking styles can be categorized into three groups which are persuasive, creative, and logical. Individuals use types of thinking styles to make a decision in their professional lives as well as personal. Many times the way individuals approach the different methods of thinking come from what they had learned when they were children. This comes from experiences in which they may have been involved, witnessed growing up, or during work experience. Persuasive thinking will always affect more than one person while logical and creative thinking can affect individuals, team, and group. There is a fine line drawn between persuasive thinking and manipulating. Both involve getting other to accept the way of thinking that individual posses, the different being whether or not individuals let other know they are trying to influence them or not. Persuasive...
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...................................................................03 The evolution of modern management thought ….........................................................04 The function of modern management theories ….…………………………….….…...09 Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………12 Topic 2: Management Process ………………………………..……………………...…...…...13 Purpose………………………………………...………………………………………..13 Introduction…………………………...………………………………………………..13 The major elements of management processes……………………………………….13 The management problems in the organization, ways to overcome the problems…17 The new skills would a manager require in that organization as he or she is promoted from the middle to the top management level………….…………….…21 Conclusion ………………………….………………….…………………...…………..24 Topic 3: Decision Making and Teamwork…..……………………….…………….……….25 Purpose……………………………………………..…………….……………………25 Introduction…………….…………………………………………..………………….26 The process of decision making……….…..……………………….………………….26 Manage the decision making in a team……………………………………………….29 The advantages and disadvantages of team decision making ……….……………..31 Techniques to improving team decision making, identify the main barriers of these techniques……………………………………………………………...…….34 Conclusion……………….…………………………………………………………...39 Topic 1: Evolution of Modern Management __________________________________________________________________________ Purpose 1. To brief describe the evolution...
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...A strategic leader can utilize decision-making teams as a powerful asset in successfully coping with the environment. Such teams improve their decision making by using a process of consensus, a process useful when developing national security strategy, military strategy, or strategic planning in other public or private sectors. Knowing how to forge consensus for policy development and implementation is critical to successful management and leadership. STRATEGIC LEADERS AND TEAMS Consensus decision making offers the benefit of using more fully the experience, judgment, perceptions, and thinking of a team of people. To those who have not participated in consensus decision making, the process may seem frustrating. But, mastery of small group consensus decision making processes may be the key to achieving a successful resolution of whatever crisis appears in this complex environment. Because of the nature of modern issues in the global environment, strategic decision makers must rely on teams to solve problems and to make policy recommendations. A high performing team can be a positive force in assessing strategic situations and formulating national policy. LONG-TERM VISION - Effective strategic leaders employ a strategic team to help them in the visioning process. This team "sees" the strategic environment from various frames of reference, visualizing the effectiveness of proposed strategies over time. Teams help leaders to understand a complex situation and gain insight into...
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...Decision Making AJS/512 Decision Making This essay will describe a group decision making process within an organization. The essay will also have a successful and unsuccessful experience, which will involve a group’s decision making. This essay will also provide a discussion of the factors that will affect the group’s effectiveness, pertaining to the text. Each group, person, organization, and team decision-making process will become a part of day-to-day working experiences. Today’s society individuals and groups have a different way of thinking and decision making due to different diversity. The various ways of thinking has the characteristics of three groups; creative, logical, and persuasive. The individual or group will use the different ways of thinking to make a decision in his or her careers as well as personal lives. A person’s day-to-day life will allow him or her to have different approaches to making decisions on how he or she should handle an obstacle that arises in life. Some people will believe this experience will come from things he or she has to deal with daily. Different ways of Thinking Creative thinking deals with the way an individual will have ideas to improve an older idea, so that things will operate better. Some people will never realize that each individual has his or her own creative way of thinking. This particular step deals with setting goals for improvement, so the same accident will not occur again. Some people will believe creative...
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...in empowering my team to participate in the decision making process both as a team and as individuals. My team members are experts in their particular functions, and as such have valuable skills and experience to add to the decision making process. In order not to slip into the Human Relations leadership style, I maintain control of the final decision after getting input from the team, and manage the insignificant day-to-day decisions with an understanding of the needs of the team and the requirements of the project. I set incremental and final goals for the team after we have discussed a project and determined the appropriate path to successful completion. I am aware of personal goals of my team members, and support them while keeping in mind the organizational objectives. a.) One strength of the Participative/Consultative leadership style is that the team members feel heard and are invested in the outcome as they have contributed to the project development and structural process. This means that there is less complaining, more focus on the goals of a project, and generally more willingness to cooperate with other team members in order to reach objectives. Another is that in utilizing my subject matter experts in a given area, I do not myself have to become an expert in each area. I trust my subject matter experts to know their area of expertise and can rely on them to provide me with timely, useful information to be used in the planning and decision making processes. b.) ...
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...and limitations of teams, and explain why employees join informal groups. Apply one of these to a real life professional or personal experience involving creativity in your life (from childhood to adulthood). Cite the textbook in your explanation. A team is much more than a collection of people. When linked in a common purpose mutual commitment creates synergy, resulting in improved performance. A team can be beneficial in several ways, for instance a wider range of ideas can be generated among a group versus an individual working solely on a given task. In addition teams have a range of personalities such as leaders, thinkers and workers who each contributes the correct balance of skills necessary to achieve set tasks. Team members are not only task-orientated, being a member of an effective team is akin to being a member of a family. Members provide support and mentoring helping develop members individually as well (McShane, 2013). Although there are many advantages to working with teams, there are many disadvantages as well. Many of these problems arise in problem solving. Because of the cohesiveness achieved within teams, members are more likely to agree to the quickest solution simply because it is the quickest and easiest solution. Many times these solutions are not the optimal solution to the problem, and had the team spent more time exploring individual member ideas a better solution could be reached. Teams may also have difficulty making decisions because of the many...
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...Organization Design Assignment#2 TMGT 597 01W Organization Design & Business Decisions Presented to: Dr. Jerry D. Parish, Professor of Technology Management August 10, 2015 Abstract: Organizational design process is explained here in the research report with the help of “leading organization design process” authored by by Kates and Kesler. This research report does clearly provide the information regarding the key roles and involvement of right people in the organization design process. Organizational design process is an act the design of the organization is done to lead the organization for the better growth and innovation of the firm. Organizational design process has to be very carefully observed by the high level management in the firm. Key roles in design process are explained here in the research report and the involvement of the right people in the design process is also explained. Involvement of right people in deign process is explained by four types of approaches. Kates and Kesler did give us a perfect idea regarding the deign process in the book authored by them. So let us have a look at the information provided by them and have a clear idea of design process betterment. ...
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.............................. Introduction Good leaders are made not born. If you have the desire and willpower, you can become an effective leader. Effective leaders develop through a never ending process of self-study, education, training, and experience. My BPPG will help me through my process to become an effective leader. I learned how to inspire my team into higher levels of teamwork through motivation discussed in this course “Leading People”. There are certain things you must be, know, and, do to meet your goals to be successful in a leadership role. Some of my skills do not come naturally, but are acquired through continual work and study. Good leaders are continually working and studying to improve their leadership skills. My goal is to become successful through Walden University MBA program. I will continue to develop my BPPG to reach my professional and personal mission, vision, and values to become a successful leader. Figuring out a course of action, and getting others to support and advance the effort is what I have learned in this course. Teaming and Interpersonal Relationship In the teaming and interpersonal relationships in weeks one-three; in week one I learned how to work with a group of individuals each with different ideas. The team that I worked with came up with a...
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...room to be served to customers. Then the whole team will cooperate, serve as regional offices on a mission to identify and secure rooms that meets those specific criteria. Everyone in the team have to remember their part of information in order to make sound decisions. The whole team will decide which rooms is prepared to be served and which are not. What we may not realize right away is that every move the team makes will have an effect on the final outcome. Choosing a room that does not meet the all requirements is costly, and will cause the decrease to the total revenue. The team which have the highest accuracy of getting the prepared room served to public will make the highest revenue and win the whole game. The challenge is for the team to make quick and quality decisions while confronting organizational problems. Although the whole process of the Leadout game is really fun, during the decision-making process, conflicts raised due to team members’ different level of risk taking, our regional managers were transferred, trust is undermined sometime and we doubted the decision. Risk must be considered and measured before making a decision, with the demand for quick decisions, team members were put into a dilemma to make decisions. However, this dilemma situation helped and taught our whole team to learn what the determinants of successful collaboration are. From a perspective of behavioral observation and emotional reaction, team...
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...Henry Tam And The Mgi Team Case Category: Literature Autor: tasha129082 03 February 2010 Words: 1587 | Pages: 7 Henry Tam and the MGI Team Case - Main Managerial Problem On the surface, the seven-member MGI team which comprised of Henry Tam and Dana Soiman – both current HBS MBA Students, Alex Sartakov – a Berklee College of Music student, Dav Clar – a MIT graduate student, and Alexander (Sasha) Gimpelson, Igor Tkachenko, and Roman Yakub – the MGI founders, seems like an ideal team, with each member bringing different experiences and technical skills to help with the business plan contest at HBS. However, as we will see in this paper, interpersonal dynamics, a lack of clear leadership, resulting in unclear team goals and individual roles, and a lack of healthy group norms, contribute to an ineffective team process at MGI. With the deadline less than three weeks away and the team without even a first draft of the business plan, Henry is certain that the team would not meet the deadline if it continued to function as it had so far. Case Analysis Team Process is defined as the team members’ behaviors and interactions, occurring over time. It is through this process that all of the members’ expertise and knowledge, along with other inputs, functioning in the group environment, manufacture an output. MGI’s team process seems ineffective, resulting a lot of conflicts among the subgroups of the MGI team and inability to complete the business...
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...|Harvard ManageMentor — MAKING BUSINESS DECISIONS TOOLS | |Communications Notification Form* | |Once your team makes a decision, you need to communicate it to those responsible for implementing it and to everyone affected by it. Use this form to: | |Document the decision making process. | |Consider the impact of the decision on the culture of the organization (from an individual team member perspective). | |List the team members names and roles: | |1. Erin Tartaglia – Team Leader | |2. Christos Stavrakis – Content Expert | |3. Jillian Stephens – Devil’s Advocate | ...
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...solve the underlining issues. First this simulation applies the decision making techniques and evaluation tools in solving the problems that arise in this business model. Second this simulation teaches mangers in developing the techniques; that will assist them in making decision that will generate a more predictable outcome. Third this simulation will take in account the decision making steps and use the decision making worksheets to evaluate the findings in the simulation. Finally, the assignment will assist future managers on the basic process of managing developing techniques and decision making skills in becoming a better leader and manager that uses critically thinking in making business decisions. The first phase of the simulation the team was designated for the most challenging assignment that Linda James had to offer. Our team took charge of a company with numerous issues. Some issues the company was facing included: declining sales, employee attrition, legal action, inventory, product mix, variable pay, and Wide Area Network (WAN) problems. Aware of the background of this company and knowing the symptoms Credenhill is experiencing, our team identified and evaluated the issues then separated the issues on the matrix. The issues were separated in terms of criticality and urgency. The evaluation technique our team used with the simulation was importance weighing. After reading the details on each issue, our team placed the issues on a scale to determine whether or not the...
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