Human Skills: Group decision making

 Strengths of Group Decision Making  

• Availability of different perspectives
• Different sets of information points
• Different solutions to problems
• Produce better quality approaches or alternatives
• Idea generation coming from different people
• Better support and guidance

 Weaknesses of Group Decision Making  

• More individuals involved in decision making can delay the decision-making process
• Coming to a consensus may be difficult
• Ambiguous responsibility and no single individual can be held responsible.
• Peer pressure can have poor decision-making outcomes
• Some members may dominate the group decision making
• Some members may be merely silent and followers of others