{"id":9435,"date":"2023-03-15T22:13:17","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T22:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/choose-some-major-controversy-fiasco-real-or-alleged-from-the-last-25-years-and-drawing-on-your-knowledge-of-group-decision-making-processes\/"},"modified":"2023-03-15T22:13:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T22:13:17","slug":"choose-some-major-controversy-fiasco-real-or-alleged-from-the-last-25-years-and-drawing-on-your-knowledge-of-group-decision-making-processes","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/choose-some-major-controversy-fiasco-real-or-alleged-from-the-last-25-years-and-drawing-on-your-knowledge-of-group-decision-making-processes\/","title":{"rendered":"Choose some major controversy\/&#8221;fiasco&#8221; (real or alleged) from the last 25 years and Drawing on your knowledge of group decision-making processes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Choose some major controversy\/&#8221;fiasco&#8221; (real or alleged) from the last 25 years (other than one of those discussed in the book Victims of Groupthink, i.e., the Bay of Pigs, Pearl Harbor, Korea, Vietnam, and Watergate). Drawing on your knowledge of group decision-making processes, discuss the following:<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>A. How might &#8220;groupthink&#8221; account for the (real or alleged) mistakes that were made? That is, what symptoms of groupthink appeared to be present? Look for evidence of such things as group polarization, conformity pressures, self-censoring, mindguards, etc.\n<\/div>\n<div>B. How could groupthink have been prevented? That is, what are some changes that could have been made in the decision-making process that might have led to better results?<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Choose some major controversy\/&#8221;fiasco&#8221; (real or alleged) from the last 25 years (other than one of those discussed in the book Victims of Groupthink, i.e., the Bay of Pigs, Pearl Harbor, Korea, Vietnam, and Watergate). Drawing on your knowledge of group decision-making processes, discuss the following: A. How might &#8220;groupthink&#8221; account for the (real or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[681],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/9435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/9435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=9435"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=9435"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=9435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}