Firstly, I want to congratulate all of us that during the decision making activity we were able to make a unanimous vote and get something out of an hour long deliberations. I have to admit that at the beginning of our discussion I wasn’t very convinced that we will be able to get a hundred percent of votes on one idea. Though, the results of our discussion confirmed that the means of dealing with conflict that each of us took were effective in achieving our mutual goal, even if the goal didn’t fully comply with our individual interests.
My behavior in the class decision making process demonstrated accommodation and compromise. I believe that in any relationship, whether personal or business, we have to compromise and quite often this is the only method that successfully ends a conflict. For many people compromise is difficult to accept and it sounds like giving up one’s own view. I totally disagree with that opinion. I think that compromise is very effective if it is used at the right time. A person who compromises to quickly is a loser. On the other hand when it is obvious that no party in the conflict will get exactly what they want, compromising at this point of discussion is the only way to go. In my opinion it is just dull to stubbornly defend one’s point if it has no chance of winning.
As my other approach in the class discussion I used accommodation. My grade for the test was lower than I would like it to be but it was still higher than the average for the class, so I felt like my classmates who got really low grades should have the priority in deciding about what should be done to move the grades up. I kind of knew that any grade improvement options chosen by my classmates will benefit my grade as well, and I will go along with the ideas.
In overall, I think that as a group we did fine job negotiating the terms for our grades improvement. If I was to name our biggest weakness in the decision making process it would be inability to think collectively by some individuals, which lead to wasting way to much time and in effect not having enough time to work on our second part of discussion - the form of the second test.
My behavior in the class decision making process demonstrated accommodation and compromise. I believe that in any relationship, whether personal or business, we have to compromise and quite often this is the only method that successfully ends a conflict. For many people compromise is difficult to accept and it sounds like giving up one’s own view. I totally disagree with that opinion. I think that compromise is very effective if it is used at the right time. A person who compromises to quickly is a loser. On the other hand when it is obvious that no party in the conflict will get exactly what they want, compromising at this point of discussion is the only way to go. In my opinion it is just dull to stubbornly defend one’s point if it has no chance of winning.
As my other approach in the class discussion I used accommodation. My grade for the test was lower than I would like it to be but it was still higher than the average for the class, so I felt like my classmates who got really low grades should have the priority in deciding about what should be done to move the grades up. I kind of knew that any grade improvement options chosen by my classmates will benefit my grade as well, and I will go along with the ideas.
In overall, I think that as a group we did fine job negotiating the terms for our grades improvement. If I was to name our biggest weakness in the decision making process it would be inability to think collectively by some individuals, which lead to wasting way to much time and in effect not having enough time to work on our second part of discussion - the form of the second test.
2 comments:
Decision making by a group or between any two parties does not necessarily means conflict. A does not implies B. So that is illogical first. Secondly, there was no negotiation. If one insists that was "negotiation," then it is a "win-loss" negotiation, technically that is more of threat or taking the win by force, something what criminals or rogue would do more often.
If you want a decision to be made and not run an organization down, then all ideas and opinions should be consider first before making a final decision. So the voting should be a final vote and not voting twice. The voting should be after reviewing all the ideas on grade modification as well as the structural modification of the test. Whether agree or disagree, all opinions and ideas should be listen first. Have yet people learn from the splattered egg?
Third, unanimous consensus is usually not the best for this type of decision making. Unanimous consensus is more for if one wants to vote on taking a break or going forward with a motion that is explicitly obvious and self-evidently harmless. Since the rule was deliberately set to have an unanimous consensus, then what is to blame of wasting time is the voting method, not the individual. The voting method was by raise of hands, and to raise one's hands meant "yes" or doing otherwise meant "no." Under this method, how do people who have no opinion one way or another, who choose avoidance, or who wants to think more and not vote so soon do? What can these people do? They do not want to vote yet, they want to think more and see if there is alternative, but at the same time do not want to vote "yes" or "no" on a certain issue. What can they do?
Machiavelli wrote in Prince, "where there is no conflict, there is no life."
Moderate level of conflict drives an organization forward.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA1I6MUOKkU
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