ORGS 4560 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Oligarchy
28 Apr 2018
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ORGS 4560
Lecture 28
• Decision rules operating procedures
o Ex. Consensus
▪ Some groups discuss consensus rule – majority rules,
only after it becomes clear that consensus cannot be
achieved
o Develop a matrix – fill in interests (the reason your opponents
want what they want) on each issue and rank them for yourself
and the other members of the group – if you can’t rank them
you don’t know enough about your opponent
o Better to ask questions and learn about opponents interests
and priorities than to revel information about one’s own
o Affects how members interests must be considered by the
group before it can make a decision
▪ Dictatorship one person decides
▪ Oligarchy few people decide
▪ Simple Majority more than half the group
▪ Two-Thirds Majority self explanatory
▪ Consensus about 2/3rds majority with the minority
drawing their dissent
▪ Unanimity all group members decide
1. Providing mechanisms to help the group integrate diverse and
conflicting information into a high quality decision
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