第8周讲座：不确定性下管理与决策社会学.pdfVIP

GSBS6001

ManagingUnderUncertainty

Sociologyofdecisionmaking

DrSharonAyson

SeniorLecturerinManagement

NEWCASTLEBUSINESSSCHOOL,Sydney

Overview2

Lecture8:

Sociologyofdecisionmaking

Reading:

TealeetalCh.11only

Mainthemes:

•Groupstructureandcommunication

•Characteristicsofeffectivegroups

•Strengthsandlimitationsofgroupdecisionmaking

•Strategiesforgroupdecisionmaking

•Groupdecisionmakingprofile

StructureofSession:

•PartOne:Lecture

•PartTwo:Ethicaldecisionmakingprocess

Introduction

•Recappingfromlastweek:

oLastweek,weexploredthepsychologyofdecision

making

oIndoingso,weidentifiedsomepsychologicaltheories

andapproaches

oWeexaminedthepsychologyofthedecisionmakerand

alsosoughttoterunderstandwhatperceptual

processesexist

oFinally,weexploretheeffectofindividualpsychology

and,inparticular,individualperceptionsontheindividual

decisionmakingprocess

Introduction

•Thisweekwefocusonthesociologyofdecision

making

•Itwillinvolveanexaminationofsometheoriesof

groupbehaviourandgroupdecisionmaking

•Wewillexploretheroofstructureand

communicationingroupdecisionmaking

•Weidentifyandanalysethecharacteristicsof

effectivegroupsandgroupdecisionmaking

•Finally,weexplorethestrengthsandlimitations

ofgroupdecisionmakingbeforeseekingto

developaprofileforagroupdecision

Introduction

Agroupis:

“anynumberofpeoplewho(i)interactwithoneanother;(2)are

psychologicallyawareofoneanotherand(iii)perceivethemselvesto

beagroup”

Teale(2003:277)

Classtask: