Theories for Decision Making

Theories for Decision doIntroductionNowadays, there be various kinds of management techniques among people, peculiarly communicating within a base of people in particular give-and-take. During the discussion, wreak in fashioning impressive and credible finality is genuinely important in revisal to draw a result with step up whatsoever conflicts by and large. Many people ar facing a problem about(predicate) the usage of assemblage progress, that satisfactory and bad conclusion do may be quite complicated towards some people. Good end do direction that all(prenominal) member leave alone agree with separately former(a) in raise to work together in effect among their jobs, piece bad finish making will be made if people stopister non firmly found their termination healthful and cause vicious effect on their work. Although there be many free radical members, especially leaders of sort try their best to discover more ways to cooperate with colleague s, while conflicts quiet down can be found everywhere callable to different view headsprings and ideas are firmly held in someones mind (Collin et al., 2012)..However, no matter you are alone, or til nowtide be a part of collection, your closing making may still be mended as receive decisiveness making can be advantageously affected by throngs opinion. hence being a root word leader, they should know how to form good conclusion making, and how to prevent bad decision making during the discussion process. From one-time(prenominal) to now, many companionable psychologists set out point out that good decision making can be drawn if nearly-organised and critical thinking should be found in gathering leaders, even members. In the essay below, some relevant theories and critical explanations will be combined in order to extend an informational discussion on how to making good and bad decision (Busenitz Barney, 1997). Moreover query evidences may in want manner be u sed in supporting the process for good decision making, and the agent why people may draw such bad decision during discussions. This kind of organisations can cater a critical and informative essay in discussing the procedures within good and bad decision making in the group. trend to make good decisions (Relevant Theories)In the past few decades, there are many kindly psychologists point out that some personal mental behaviours may affect the discussion, especially making decision among team members. Zajonc claim that if there are any appropriate response or arousal, group carrying into do workion and members can be enhanced (Zajonc, 1965). Therefor the Drive Theory of Social Facilitation (Zajonc, 1965) can welly explain the reason why people would same(p) to generate better decision while group members can provide good environment and decision. Because this kind of way can evaluate apprehension during discussion, in order to put d give conflicts and worries, which can let group members be more relax to make good decision (Seo Barrett, 2007). be a member in a group, many cases show that they cannot have effective chat among those team members as they will keep holding their birth ideas or viewpoints, then it may cause split up of conflicts in arguing for decision making in particular issue. In this situation, facilitators and bystanders are demand among disussion in order to provide an early(a) viewpoints, which is different from the insiders. According to Bibb Latane and John Darley (1970), People, especially bystanders among the situation may have higher run across to perform better behaviours and make good decision, when they are facing any emergency brake situation in the society (Latane Darley, 1968).Regarding to the Emergency Norm Theory, bystanders may have higher chance to protagonist other people, which be pointed out that people will be persuaded to aid those needs. In akin, facilitators in a group take the role to identify those problems with a third-person view that may not suffer in any bias. Facilitators should not be directive in any ideas as they should stay outside and provide independent opinion. In the office environment, each team members, or colleagues should work together that without any bias. accordingly third-person view and special ideas may be made during particular discussion between each other (Bickman, 1971). Therefore people should ensure their own psychological status in order to maintain permanent discussion behind conflicts.Before making good decision during a series of discussion, deep sympathy of particular discussion topic is very important as pointed out by Kurt Lewin. Lewin said You cannot deduce a system until you try to change it, it means that changing of mental and physical behaviour is reusable for a team to draw effective and positionful decision among different kinds of conflicts. Moreover leaders who truly want to form good decision within their own group, working environment should be well designed because behaviour is a combination of individuals and proper environment, which is proposed by Lewin (Brug et al., 2006). At the beginning of changes or even discussion, separate discussions within subgroups are required as it can provide sufficient spaces for members to discuss their own ideas in order to form a small conclusion. After that proper support and mind desktop should be destinen towards group member or colleagues, therefore they can have more effective ways to maintain and try their best to have new job or make any decision under harmonious decision making process.In order to provide more say-so of their own points of view, those well-disposed psychologists have already pay more efforts in generate several(prenominal) research and conduct different sample to point out their power of theories.Path to make good decision (Relevant Researches)According to Zajoncs cockroaches try out which explain the behaviour of a group of cockroac hes in tacking different level of tasks, in order to point out the changes of human behaviours during group processing. During the experiment, cockroaches are assigned a simple task and a more difficult task for them to eject while a group cockroaches will need to be do it together. Zajonc (1969) would homogeneous to find out whether a group can provide better results in these kinds of task or not.However, Zajonc found out that group of cockroaches can complete a simple tasks under the social facilitation while they cannot complete such difficult tasks in front of their peers under social inhibition (Zajonc et al., 1970). Generally, the basic concepts and usage of theory can be sagely use into human being as these kinds of behaviours can also be found on a group of people during discussion, especially decision making. Because people would like to perform well in front of other people in order to gain confidence and recognition, however people cannot be compare with cockroaches d ue to higher intelligence ability can be on human being than that on cockroaches (Zajonc, Wolosin, Wolosin Sherman, 1968).aside from Zajoncs studies, Bibb Latene and John Darley (1970) have done an experiment in order to demonstrate the effectiveness of bystander intervention, which means people would like to help others who need helps. In real life situation, people unquestionably give a helping hand towards people who are suffering in distress, such as desolation caused by natural disasters and problems carried by human disasters. In addition, the experiment have also stated out that fewer people will help others in emergency if the group size become larger. Therefore leaders should prevent oversize of each group, and they may put deuce to four people in a group, while several subgroups should be used in order to maintain better communication and decision making (Petty et al., 1977). Although Latene and Darley pointed out that increasing in size of group while decreasing in per centage of helps generally, the results generated in experiment may not be suitable to be applied on people nowadays. The reason is the experiment had been done in 1970s, which may be quite far from past to now, and the situation would not be well to compare with 21st century. People would like to help each other even the group size is greater than 6, such as just about of the Hong Kong citizens would like to figure in helping re-construction of destroyed building after disasters, even donation of money, therefore it may not be possible to explain human behaviours nowadays (Latane, B., Darley, J. M., 1968).During the discussion, good decision making will not be the just now products among group members, conflicts may be found within insufficient communication and unprejudiced viewpoints of leaders. So bad decision making may be discovered and it has already been explained by several social psychologists with several theories in the past decades.Path to make bad decision (Relevan t Theories)First of all, Solomon Asch had also pointed out that people would like to follow the others opinion, especially the majority ideas. During the discussion progress, group members are generally compelled by the ascendency in order to fit their expected results (Laughlin, 1988). In most of cases, team members would try their best to persuade themselves and pretend themselves to agree with the majority opinion, while throw their own personal ideas. This kinds of action stated that the reason why they would like to follow majority decision is they do not want to be such minority, which may be easily shamed by those kernel contact from other team members. Therefore leaders should prevent team members agree with each other easily and shortly, as it means that they just follow others ideas and wish to form the results which fit the need of authority (Asch, 1951)In most of the discussion cases, it may be very strange that group members can only spend a few time to conduct their discussion, and decision can be made in such an easy way as they said to leaders. Because of this, good decision cannot be made wisely due to such inappropriate discussion method and it will not able to solve their own problems. As said by Irving Janis (1982), group members may not wish to point out their own ideas as they think that their opinion should fit the need of their leader, even boss. They will only filter such undesirable input in order to give out some results which may be similar to leaders viewpoint. Within this situation, decision that made by those group members should not be the original opinion from themselves, these kinds of decision are just the expected result of leaders, therefore good and fair decision which are agreed with all members may not able to be made by the self-coloured group (Janis, 1972).During the development of human being, they are born to obey norms, which is given out by any authorities. Stanley Milgram stated out that people will follow the instructions which are told by other people, especially those authorities such as government. Conformism can be the reason why those people would like to obey the rules or even instruction that proposed by other authorities agencies (Milgram, 1978). In the discussion, if the leaders or boss point out that they expect people to perform the particular results and decision, most of the group members would like to follow its information and form that expected decision. It may not be beneficial towards the whole group because decision making do not include any bystanders ideas, while the whole progress of decision making is based on the expected opinion from leaders. Therefore pre-decision should not be include in the discussion, even during decision making.Role and Rules are very important among the normal life, especially the situation of discussion and decision making as different people will take responsibility to act as particular role during the discussion. Stanley Zimbardo pointe d out that great changes can be found if good people are put into bad environment. And it means that extreme changes in social environment can definitely affect the movement of everyone (Zimbardo et al., 2000).Within the working environment, if there are only a small amount of members who are willing to propose authoritative and effective ideas towards the group, even company, the proper decision also may not be made as they are being surrounded by those negative ideas. Because of the majority in the group is fulfilling negative mind of the discussion, it will affect the other who have positive ideas. Therefore those low-level position would be summit to the authority, which is the leader or boss.Regarding to this kind of problems, good decision making should not be found because there will not have proper and non-directive discussion due to the power of such social situation is really affect the disposition of people and all of the members who hold positive idea will be compelled to agree with the majority. Then in order to have better process in making good decision, no matter leaders or boss should put more efforts on enhance colleagues attitude.Regarding to explain deeply about the related theories, several social psychologist have already done quite a draw poker experiment or researches in order to explain their viewpoints wisely.Path to make bad decision (Relevant Researches)In Aschs research which was conducted in 1955, it can definitely point out that most of the people included in the experiment would like to follow the majority among the decision making within groups. Because they try their best to fit the expected answer that can truly explain with some real life example nowadays, there are still quite a lot of people would like to follow the majority among groups within the society generally. However, this experiment was conducted during the cultural environment of fifties the States, it still had a fluctuated changes in the results when it was applied in different time ranges. Therefore statistics in this experiment cannot be used exactly in 21st century, while its concept and basic information can be wisely apply into the daily life generally.Within both Zimbardo and Milgrams experiments and researches, they have generally explained the concept of conformity of people. First of all, a large group of people are divided into two subgroups in order to act as guards and prisoners respectively for a period of time. The experiment can definitely point out the role and rules ideas, while heightening anonymity and dehumanization behaviours. However those people who act as prisoners have already been suffered in several kinds of psychological problems after six days, therefore the experiment was forced to be stopped (Zimbardo, Maslach Haney, 2000).Apart from this, Milgrams shock experiment has stated that people would like to obey other authority, even they know that these kinds of decision may not be appropriate within their o wn personal mind. Although Milgrams research pointed out many effective explanation in conformism, reproval can be found in his experiment. In this experiment, Milgram only use a group of American to conduct this shock experiment while it cannot represent the whole population in the world, because there will be a difference among other countries. America and European countries will be much fealty and similar described as Milgrams result, while Asian and Muslim countries are less regard as Milgrams experiment.Both of the researches from Zimbardo and Milgram are very remarkable and supportive in the field of social psychology nowadays. Although some ethical concerns and cross-cultural validity may need to be aware, some ideas and concepts still have their value in conducting continuous studies in related studies.ConclusionTo conclude, making a good decision is quite difficult during the particular discussion, because bad decision making may be easily found if leaders do not communi cate and cooperate well with each other. In order to make good decision, leaders should not take all the responsibilities to make decision, while they are required to give out some power to colleagues, that can let them have their own ideas and opinion about own mission. 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