Wednesday, March 18, 2009

A Challenge Task--Decision Making

Teamwork is a word and concept well known to everyone. Everyone of us also has some kind of decision making experience. But when those two things combine together, it becomes a challenge task for many of us. Since we got different score, we all have different attitudes toward what we want to get. Some of us want a huge curve, some don't; many of us don't like the True/False questions, but others are good at it; some did well on the essay question, others did poorly. What some of us are expected to get often conflicts with others. Thus, it is a very tough quest to have some decisions and get everyone agree on it.
In such a decision making process which involves a lot of arguments, there is five basic way How people handle conflict:

Compete to win
Assertiveness to get one’s own way

Avoidance
Withdrawal; used when there’s “no chance of winning”

Compromise
Used with decision making under pressure; all members are equal

Accommodation
Seeing issue as more important to others than self

Collaborating
Requires bargaining and negotiation among group
Multiple group insights required

i think the way i handle it was Avoidance. Since everyone was acting on their own best interest, no one really care about what others want and how we can got things done. a lot of people were shouting out their opinions and criticizing others thought. The class seems like a mass and people were acting bad toward other. in this kind of environment, i don't think my opinion would be taken or even be heard. it would just add more noise and possible criticized by others.
Thankfully, we have two classmate who have a great courage to stand up to the front and reorganize the class. As we approach to the time limit and we had really done nothing, everyone suddenly realized that we must cooperated to get things done. None of us can get what excelly what we want, in order to get the best deal, we must give up somethings we personally want.
For future decision making process, i would choose to collaborate with others. as a team member, i willing to invest time to shape and agree upon a common purpose and overcome and share my ideas. in a this excise environment where we must get 100% agreement, our ideas are really depend on others agreement, without collaborating we can go nowhere. moreover, i would divide our class into small group, thus can reduce the conflicts and increase the efficiency. In this approach, we can get more idea without have so many conflicts and people are more likely to take part in a small group environment than a large one.

1 comment:

  1. I am also choose avoidance to handle the class chaos in this activity. Once I know that I won't have chance to win and make my idea works, I feel hopeless because I don't want to get into the conflicts. I also choose to collaborate with others in the future decision making process. I understand that if I want to make my own idea be success, I have to form a group and get more power in order to persuade others. Wish we will do well in the next exam. ^__^

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