Our class activity on decision making that we completed on Wednesday was based on the results of Exam #1. We were proposed by our professor to make a treatment of the Exam. Our group had around 30 mins in use to come with a mutual decision.
In the beginning it was a real chaos. The decision making process was frustrating because we did not have leaders, and students were interrupting each other and yelling to be heard. People behaved different during decision making conflict. I noticed that some students tried to avoid participating, and withdrew from the decision making process because they thought that there was "no chance of winning" for them. Some students competed to win and they tried to persuade that their solution is the best and they behaived inappropriate and even agressive. Personally, I tried to compromise during our class activity and strived "to get something" from the process. I knew that I wanted our exam to be curved and this was proposed by the majority of students. I think that compromising method is the best method during decision making conflict because all members are equal and everybody is heard.
However, to handle the conflict in our decision making process and get more desirable result sooner and with less conflict, I could have chosen the following ways:
1) I could have chosen only two leaders who would stay in the front of the classroom and organize everybody ( leader # 1 would listen each student's suggestion and leader # 2 would write all possible proposals.
2) When each student was heard and we had all options written we could have voted for every single proposal.
I think that having two leaders (not around 10 people in the front of the classroom who were overyelling each other) will be more efficient and the process of decision making will be more organized because each student will have the opportunity to be heard.
In the beginning it was a real chaos. The decision making process was frustrating because we did not have leaders, and students were interrupting each other and yelling to be heard. People behaved different during decision making conflict. I noticed that some students tried to avoid participating, and withdrew from the decision making process because they thought that there was "no chance of winning" for them. Some students competed to win and they tried to persuade that their solution is the best and they behaived inappropriate and even agressive. Personally, I tried to compromise during our class activity and strived "to get something" from the process. I knew that I wanted our exam to be curved and this was proposed by the majority of students. I think that compromising method is the best method during decision making conflict because all members are equal and everybody is heard.
However, to handle the conflict in our decision making process and get more desirable result sooner and with less conflict, I could have chosen the following ways:
1) I could have chosen only two leaders who would stay in the front of the classroom and organize everybody ( leader # 1 would listen each student's suggestion and leader # 2 would write all possible proposals.
2) When each student was heard and we had all options written we could have voted for every single proposal.
I think that having two leaders (not around 10 people in the front of the classroom who were overyelling each other) will be more efficient and the process of decision making will be more organized because each student will have the opportunity to be heard.
Probably most of the class compromise on what was being offered since there was time limit. I hope the decision we made will help more students to get A at the end.
ReplyDeleteI agree that compromising is a great method to use during a decision making conflict situation, but I think that it is difficult to achieve at a class size as big as ours and the time constraint that was given to us. It was indeed a chaotic activity, but now that I look back and think about it, I thought that it was an overall fun and memorable experience for me :)
ReplyDeleteI chose to accomodate with the situation because there were so many students raising their opinion, and adding me to it would have been more difficult for decision making process.
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