Decision-Making Process Analysis

Overall, this group project went very well and was completed on time due to the fact there everyone including myself assigned ourselves with a task role, relational role and from the start had individual roles present such as leader, compromiser, and gatekeepers in the group that made it

Each of my team members focused on becoming respective category “experts”, but we were all vocal and engaged in the decisions made throughout each round. Decision ideas or prospective planning processes were either pitched prior to our bi-weekly meeting of in the beginning of the meeting and discussed as a team.

As a team, we did not work overly well together as we duplicated much of our work, had significant disagreements regarding our answers and still ended up with incorrect answers. Essentially, we inadvertently modelled a Decision-Making Authority model but failed to be economically rational.

This project in general was kind of fun. It’s better than some of the past assignments we've had. So it might be interesting if we had future assignments similar to this, because it involves a group & I like group work, because it gets done faster. My group was fair and on task. All of us did what we had to do, because we all care about grade. Since we all care about grade a lot, we completely focused on the assignment. No one was ever off task, and that was good, because we needed to get this assignment done. Another good things is, we never argued. I’m glad this happened, because if it did we would have never finished and that would have been bad. Throughout the whole assignment my group and I had perfect communication skills with one another

The beginning of the assignment started off bad but ended on a positive note. As the deadline drew closer, the group members were forced to find a common ground in regards to the specific time the group discussions would be conducted. To address the lack of communication, Marcelo, one of the group members, laid out the goal we needed to complete. After this was done the project fell into place and was competed on

This group project was a lot of organization. At this moment, we had a lot of exams and

Although, I hate group projects and my group members are procrastinators we were able to pull it all together

Since you can't expect a new team to amaze when it first comes together, putting together a robust team that functions well was a challenge. The second challenge was the fact that we were all the same age and almost all had the same level of experience, which put an extra burden on me trying to influence the team and make them believe in me and trust me as a leader.

One of the main issues impeding the efficiency and preventing successful teamwork in this situation was uncertainty with the structural design of this project team. I was more familiar (and comfortable) with a rigid chain of command structure. My belief that we should be precisely executing the stated orders of our Navy leadership created obstacles for the other team members. Other more academically inclined team members were less oriented toward this centralized structure and therefore did not comprehend my opposition to their content ideas.

This week I would like to discuss about a past decision made for the group project on one of my nursing class. There was a total of six people in our group for our group project. Before getting together as a group we analyzed the group project and distributed the task to all members of the group equally. Every one of us were given sufficient time to accomplish the work we were assigned for. We communicated through email and text messages. When everyone had finished their part we met in a group to discuss the group project. At the beginning of the group project, unilateral decision making was involved. One member in our group didn’t want to consider other group member’s perception. Her loud and dominating voice dominated other member’s idea.

These are a few of the words that describe my decision making style and there opposites. Cautious, I tend to be very cautious when I make decisions. I do not want to implement a decision that is not well of others. The opposite is heedless, a heedless decision maker usually does not put a lot of thought into it. I am a very logical decision maker. A logical decision maker seeks out validity or something that has already been proven true. The opposite is invalid, anything that does not have fact or truth to back it, and for me if I do not understand it, I normally shy away from it. Another on of my decision making styles is active, in a sense of getting involved and seeing how all the pieces work and come together. This supports my need to understand

The rational decision-making model describes a series of steps that decision makers should consider if their goal is to maximize the quality of their outcome. In other words, if you want to make sure that you make the best choice, going through the formal steps of the rational decision-making model may make sense. The following are the steps taken to come to a rational decision: 1. Identify the problem, 2. Establish decision criteria, 3. Weigh decision criteria, 4. Generate alternatives, 5. Evaluate the alternative, 6. Choose the best alternative, 7. Implement the decision, 8. Evaluate the decision.

The main goal of the project was to increase productivity by decreasing the time being wasted. The manager, who took all the responsibility of the project and five team members were part of the team. There was a project sponsor, who guided us and projected our ideas. This project started on August 9th, 2016. In the first meeting, we all sat in the conference room together. Not a sound came from any of us. Finally, after several minutes, what I felt like an hour, I simply had to say something. I asked, “Why do we need to change the process?” One member of the team, said, “We need to change it because I think we are wasting too much time on other things.” Another person, a senior woman, said, “I don’t think so we need to change the process. I am comfortable with the current one.” Others laughed. I thought to myself: I didn’t want to be in a group with people who didn’t take the project matter seriously. When the meeting ended, my perceptions of the group had somehow changed. Maybe this was a good group to be in after all. Some members had similar interests

Our team comprised of four members; Emily, Cileena, Chelsea and I. We were all delegated with an individual role each term and I was designated team leader for the first term for our group. I felt at the time that this role did not suit me as I am the type of person who is more on the shy side. In addition, the course had just begun so I was relatively unsure of how the course was handled which also affected my ability to serve as the team leader to the best of my capabilities. During the first term, our team responsibility was the evaluation team. We created a well planned and carefully executed evaluation rubric to assess each group’s performance. The start of this term was when the phases of group development initiated. The first stage of any group is forming (Harris and Sherblom, 2010, p. 58). At this time, we were all still getting to know each other and were uncertain upon one another

From the banging to end the project team should discuss there success and failures during pre defined time slots.