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Question:What are two major disadvantages of group decision making?Why you say so?

So below is the answer.

Basically, a group can be defined as a group where is two or more people who interact and influence one another.This definition was given by Shaw (1981)

Decision making is a conscious process of making choices among one or more alternatives with the intention of moving towards some desire state of affairs.

Group decision making defined as the process of developing and analyzing alternatives and making a choice.

There are many disadvantages of group decision making. It includes time consuming, conformity pressures in groups, dominated by one or a few members and ambiguous responsibility. The two major disadvantages are time consuming and conformity pressures in groups.

Group decision making can be time consuming. It is because, longer time needed to evaluate and choose the best options exist. Meaning to say, when we are in a group, we have a various kind of viewpoints that is relevant and brilliant. So, it takes time to choose the best options among the available options and this is how group decision making can be time consuming. For example to choose a leader. The first step is to list down the entire eligible leader. Then, group members will vote for the leader that they found qualified for the title. During this process, more time needed for the voters to make decision which candidates that is the best to choose for the title. Once the voters voted, the votes will be counted to identify who win the title. All these process shows that there is time consuming for a group decision making.

The next major disadvantage of group decision making is, conformity pressures in groups. Conformity here includes compliance, identification and also internalization. When people conform in spite of their own beliefs and preference, they are prescribes to compliance conformity. When people conform when they respect or are attracted to others who support a particular action they are subjected to identification conformity while, in internalization, when people accept requests or orders because they are consistent with their beliefs and values, and influence is successful because the desired behavior is intrinsically rewarding to them. For example, in choosing plan. In some condition, one group has more than one good plan to run. The members within the group have differences choice of plan. Meaning to say, some choose plan A, while some choose plan B or C. So it becomes a pressure for those who choose the plan that have not been the majorities of the members.

In conclusion we can say that every decision made by the member of organization must have the advantages and disadvantages, it is hard to satisfy everybody. All we can do to avoid this thing happen by doing controlling mechanism on the decision making made by the group leader.