Examples of Consensus decision-making in the following topics:
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- Every decision-making process produces a final choice.
- Consensus decision-making tries to avoid "winners" and "losers".
- Decision making in groups is sometimes examined separately as process and outcome.
- Group members try to minimize conflict and reach a consensus decision without critical evaluation of alternative ideas or viewpoints.
- This diagram shows how decisions are made by consensus.
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- Participatory democracy strives to create opportunities for all members of a population to make meaningful contributions to decision making and seeks to broaden the range of people who have access to such opportunities.
- In 2011, participatory democracy became a notable feature of the Occupy movement, with Occupy camps around the world making decisions based on the outcome of working groups where every protestor gets to have his say, and by general assemblies where the decisions taken by working groups are effectively aggregated together .
- It adopts elements of both consensus decision making and majority rule.
- When practiced by small groups, it is possible for decision making to be both fully participatory and deliberative.
- But for large political entities, the democratic reform dilemma makes it difficult for any system of decision making based on political equality to involve both deliberation and inclusive participation.
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- In groupthink, each member of the group attempts to conform his or her opinions to what he or she believes is the consensus of the group.
- "Groupthink" is a term coined by Yale research psychologist Irving Janis to describe a process by which a group can make poor or irrational decisions.
- In a groupthink situation, each member of the group attempts to conform his or her opinions to what they believe to be the consensus of the group.
- While this may seem like a rational approach to decision making, it can result in the group ultimately agreeing upon an action that each member individually might consider to be unwise.
- One common method is to place responsibility and authority for a decision in the hands of a single person who can turn to others for advice.
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- Group polarization is the phenomenon that when placed in group situations, people will make decisions and form opinions that are more extreme than when they are in individual situations.
- It is the mode of thinking that happens when the desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives.
- Group members try to minimize conflict and reach a consensus decision without critical evaluation of alternative ideas or viewpoints.
- The term pertains to the behavior of animals in herds, flocks and schools, and to human conduct during activities such as stock market bubbles and crashes, street demonstrations, sporting events, religious gatherings, episodes of mob violence and everyday decision-making, judgment and opinion-forming.
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- Thus, the presence of peers can facilitate risky behavior as it makes the reward more meaningful.
- Group polarization has been used to explain the decision-making of juries, particularly when considering punitive damages in a civil trial.
- This belief is unsubstantiated by statistical and qualitative data, leading to the perception of a consensus that does not exist.
- Since the members of a group reach a consensus and rarely encounter those who dispute it, they tend to believe that everybody thinks the same way.
- Groupthink is a term coined by psychologist Irving Janis to describe a process by which a group can make bad or irrational decisions.
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- According to Mills, the eponymous "power elite" are those that occupy the dominant positions, in the dominant institutions (military, economic and political) of a dominant country, and their decisions (or lack of decisions) have enormous consequences, not only for the U.S. population but, "the underlying populations of the world."
- With regard to global warming, the media (in the interest of those who make a tremendous amount of money from fossil fuels) gives near equal balance to people who deny climate change, despite only "about one percent" of climate scientists taking this view.
- This allows the "debate" to continue, when in reality there is firm scientific consensus, in turn allowing those corporations to continue profiting off human behavior that in reality harms the environment.
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- Coercing a person to engage in sexual activity against his or her will, even if that person is a spouse or intimate partner with whom consensual sex has occurred, is an act of aggression and violence.
- Coercing a person to engage in sexual activity against their will, even if that person is a spouse or intimate partner with whom consensual sex has occurred, is an act of aggression and violence.
- Coercing a person to engage in sexual activity against his or her will, even if that person is a spouse or intimate partner with whom consensual sex has occurred, is an act of aggression and violence.
- Emotional abuse can include humiliating the victim privately or publicly, controlling what the victim can and cannot do, withholding information from the victim, deliberately doing something to make the victim feel diminished or embarrassed, isolating the victim from friends and family, implicitly blackmailing the victim by harming others when the victim expresses independence or happiness, or denying the victim access to money or other basic resources and necessities.
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- Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions.
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- Usually, decisions will be made by the coach, but some coaches may also appoint team captains who have a say in decision-making.
- Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions.
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- It holds the view that politics and decision making are located mostly in the framework of government, but many non-governmental groups use their resources to exert influence.
- Politics is a decision making process, which often takes place in legislative bodies such as the U.S.
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- While the above are clear examples of discrimination, there are other restrictions placed on young people based on the assumption that they are unable to make decisions for themselves.
- All of the above restrictions hinge upon the idea that young people lack the maturity required to make such important decisions.
- While this is likely true for some young people, there are also some young people who are mature enough to make these decisions.
- However, it is also the case that young people can lack the maturity to make important decisions.
- Legally, when young people make poor decisions, the defense of infancy is used in such cases to argue that such individuals are too immature to be held responsible for their decisions.