Katarzyna Szydlowska 
Group decision making. Problems, models and recommendations [PDF ebook] 

Academic Paper from the year 2016 in the subject Leadership and Human Resources – Miscellaneous, grade: 80%, Cardiff Metropolitan University, language: English, abstract: This paper will highlight the main issues associated with the group decision making. Firstly, I will explain what is the group decision making in general and adduce the theories associated with this phenomenon. Furthermore, I will emphasize the problems of decision making such as group polarization, groupthink, brainstorming or the escalation of commitment. Moreover, I will stress the models such as democratic, laissez faire and autocratic. In addition, I will recommend some techniques in order to improve the group cooperation in making decisions. Finally, I will add the presentation as a summary of this report.