The Problem of Unshared Information in Group Decision-Making: A Summary of Research and the Implications for Command and Control
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...2 It is widely assumed that (1) UI is freely shared within the group and (2) as more of this information is made available to the group, the better will be the overall quality of the decision making, i....
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...Three deficiencies were addressed in this paper: (1) the difficulty group decision makers have in sharing their uniquely held information (2) the difficulty they have in integrating such information into their on-going decision processes if it actually does become available and (3) the difficulty they have in conflict resolution and consensus building,...
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...3 environment and (2) when unshared information does move into the shared environment, participants tend to ignore or discount this information and not factor it into their decision process in an effective manner....
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...A click on this bar area will hyperlink to the complete original information item (2) the center bar displays the importance and effect of the item....
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...This finding of poor group sharing of UI has been replicated in a number of other studies (for a review see Fleming & Kaiwi, 2002) With regard to the integration of shared UI into the decision process, the majority of studies have produced results that indicate that group members discount the UI…...
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...This exchange of IOBs and comments is a very effective methodology for reducing the problems of unshared information in a group decision making task (see Stasser, 1999 or Fleming and Kaiwi, 2002, for a recent review) as well as enhancing conflict resolution and the building of a team consensus....
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...A more complete review of this literature has been recently reported by Fleming & Kaiwi (2002)....
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...As some researchers have noted, groupware systems should have a positive influence on the level of information exchanged (DeSanctis & Gallupe, 1987)....
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...The early and classic work in the field is by Stasser and Titus (1985)....
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...…than SI and generally discounted in one form or another (Dennis, 1996; Dennis et al., 1997; Gigone & Hastie, 1993; Gigone & Hastie, 1997b; Hightower & Sayeed, 1996; Larson et al., 1998b; Lavery et al., 1999; Stasser & Titus, 1985; Stasser et al., 1989; Stewart & Stasser, 1995; Thompson, 1991)....
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...As an explanation, Stasser and Titus (1985) noted that in the distributed group, a disproportionate of time was spent discussing the SI items, resulting in very few of the UI items ever being brought up for discussion....
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...As might be expected, research 7 has shown that as group diversity increases, the level of UI that is shared decreases (Gruenfeld, 1996)....
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