Groupthink in U.S. History
Challenger blows up before millions of watchers on live TV.
What is the Space Ship Challenger?
Expressed struggle of interdependence parties who perceive incompatible goals and interference from each other in achieving their goals.
What is Group Conflict?
Conflict may occur when an individual has a preconceived biases/belief about another group member.
What is Preconceived Biases?
Participants are asked to rate some or all of the ideas listed on the flip chart or whiteboard.
What is Rating?
The leader influences others to comply with a request by having the ability to provide them with some sort of reward.
What is Reward Power?
Greed leads to the Great Depression and puts millions of citizens in financial hardship.
What is the Wall Street Crash of 1929?
Conflict is something that is expressed between individuals.
What is Expressed Struggle?
Conflict may occur when group members disagree on how to tackle deadlines.
What is Deadline Styles?
Participants are asked to rank either some or all of the ideas listed on the flip chart or whiteboard.
What is Ranking?
The leader is believed to have the right to give others orders based solely on his or her position within the organization.
What is Legitimate Power?
US almost ends up in World War III.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
What happens to one individual in the group impacts one or more of the other members within the same group.
What is Independent Parties?
Conflict may occur when the leader and follower(s) have different expectations of the leader/follower roles and responsibilities.
What is Leader/Member Expectations?
Usually the best style when working with groups, because it allows everyone an equal opportunity to be heard.
What is Random Idea Technique?
The leader forces others to comply with a request by threatening to impose some type of punishment if they don’t obey.
What is Coercive Power?
US sells guns to agents in Mexico in order to capture Mexican drug lords. To date, over 4000 innocent people on both sides of the border have been killed.
What is Fast and Furious?
Group members desire different outcomes.
What is Perceived Incompatible Goals?
Conflict may occur when group members disagree on how the workload should be distributed.
What is Workload Equity?
Used by leaders when they want to obtain feedback and ideas from group members.
What is Nominal Group Technique?
The leader is influential because he or she is perceived to possess a high level of knowledge or has a highly specialized skill set.
What is Expert Power?
US mandates that all citizens have insurance. The verdict on this one is still to be determined.
What is the Affordable Healthcare Act?
An expressed disagreement alone does not constitute a conflict.
What is Interference From Each Other?
Conflict may occur when an individual in the group does not care for the general communication style of another member in the same group.
What is Personality Differences?
Generally used by individuals when they want to make a decision about a project that needs to be accomplished.
What is Clustering Technique?
The leader influences others because they are respected by others and leads by example.
What is Referent Power?