As a group and also as individuals we all became a part of a Decision making process on (10/13/10) class. Decision for better grades. After we had our results for the first exam we all had to make a decision on how to solve the lower grade issue. Thus, for this 3-5 students stood in front of the class as a group leader(not assigned by anyone) to come to a conclusion and provide basic options.But there stood in front of us a big problem, so called time constraint. we just had 15 minutes before us to come to an conclusion. But working as a team we however managed to come to a fine conclusion.
In the Decision making process i was "accommodating" with the situation. Already there were more than 10 students raising their opinion about the matter and me adding to it and within such a limited time would have been a problem for the decision making process.Having said that i was also comfortable with decision my classmates were making.
Other method which i observed in the class were "compete to win", in a sense that some students wanted to be in front and solve the issue, creating more options for the decision making process which is helpful for other fellow classmates. Additionally, i also saw "Avoidance", when one of the classmate wanted to work in a group to make the decision but other students opposed that idea so he had no chance of winning and became avoided. Also, i saw "compromise", where students were working as a mediator and were trying to get something from the resources provided by our professor.
In my opinion, working as a Group would had been a better idea for the decision that we were given. Also, every group should have been assigned different task to decide on. This way we would have divided the time for each group, divided the decision to work on and every other students could have their own opinion to provide on the decision. Hence, this method of decision would have been more beneficial for us which would have saved us time and would have reduced chaos in the class.
I am not too sure if I agree with you about the small groups. We had very little time and once the small groups idea got rejected by at minimum 1 person we have wasted all that time and would have to start all over.
ReplyDeleteI wished as if we divied into small groups and make our own tasks that can be assigned by a leader but I found that it takes a time to assign each tasks and also it is hard to give a accountablity to one person or leaders to give an orders to other classmates.
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