SCENARIO 9-1 Your Organization Is Considering the Use of Teams for Decision

question 21

Multiple Choice

SCENARIO 9-1
Your organization is considering the use of teams for decision making.You have read and studied the topic extensively.Now you are trying to inform your manager about the advantages and disadvantages of group decision-making.

-Referring to SCENARIO 9-1,you have observed that the group tends to arrive at consensus very quickly and you know that the group is very cohesive.You conclude that they may be experiencing

• A)partiality in decision making.
• B)groupshift.
• C)the nominal group technique.
• D)groupthink.
• E)the anchoring bias.

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