MGT 500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Production Blocking, Brainstorming, Interpersonal Communication
19 Nov 2020
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Interacting groups have the most common form of making decisions for groups. Members meet in person and rely on communication that is verbal and nonverbal. Interacting groups can censor themselves and pressure other people in the group to conform to an opinion. Brainstorming and nominal group techniques can lessen problems that occur in the normal interacting group. Brainstorming can overcome conformity pressures that dampen other people"s creativity by encouraging all alternatives while withholding any kind of criticism. In a normal brainstorming session, 6-12 people sit around a table. The leader of the group says what the problem is clearly to others so everyone understands. Then, members of the group freewheel any alternatives they can think of in a certain time period. To encourage unusual thinking, there is no criticism allowed, no matter how bizarre or weird the suggestion is. All ideas are recorded to discuss and analyze later on. Brainstorming doesn"t generate new ideas in an efficient manner.
