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1. In your experience, have you found that decision makig groups tend toward groupthinking? If so, what factors contributed to this tendency? If not, what factors helped to prevent it?
2. Review the steps in the rational decision making model ( steps 1-4). This model, of course, applies to individuals and moght be difficult to apply to group decison- making situations. If however, you were a juror, how might you apply these steps to your own deliberations? How might the give you some useful guidance? What adjustments would you have to make because of the context (a trail) and a situation (a group process)?
3. In what ways might bounded rationality affect a jurors approach to a decision? How about satisficing? Intuition?Ethics?
4. A recent study found that racially mixed juries deliberated no longer, raised more facts, and conducted broader and more wide- ranging deliberations than either all white or all black juries. Why do you think this was so? Do you think that mixed juries are more likely to avoid group think than racially homogenous juries? Explian your reasoning.
These Questions are found in the book' Fundamentals of Management' on page 123-124. They are Case questions.
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