IS A MEETING WORTH THE TIME? BARRIERS TO EFFECTIVE GROUP DECISION MAKING IN ORGANIZATIONS

Victoria Husted Medvec; Gail Berger; Katie Liljenquist; Margaret A. Neale

doi:10.1016/S1534-0856(03)06010-9

IS A MEETING WORTH THE TIME? BARRIERS TO EFFECTIVE GROUP DECISION MAKING IN ORGANIZATIONS

Victoria Husted Medvec, Gail Berger, Katie Liljenquist, Margaret A. Neale

Management and Organizations

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Abstract

Time pressure impacts the information that emerges in a group discussion. Executives need help managing the challenges posed by time pressure to arrive at the best decisions. In particular, we address two common biases that impact the group decision making process: the confirmation bias and the common information effect. Strategies are presented for overcoming these two biases, particularly the advantage of privately collecting information from group members within a meeting to surface unique information and disconfirming information. We also acknowledge that an executive's goal may not always be to surface information; rather, an individual may be attempting to use a group meeting to push through a particular decision. We discuss the role of time in accomplishing this objective as well.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Time in Groups
Pages	213-233
Number of pages	21
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S1534-0856(03)06010-9
State	Published - 2003

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Name	Research on Managing Groups and Teams
Volume	6
ISSN (Print)	1534-0856

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Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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