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  • 1.  Decision Making for Company Directors

    Posted 10-07-2010 07:57

    Dear Colleagues,

     

    I have been asked to facilitate a 4-hour course on decision making for company directors. I would be most grateful for any materials, ideas, and particularly experiential exercises that some of you may have found useful for this type of workshop.

     

    I am very happy to collate ideas and forward them to those who are also interested in this area.

     

    With many thanks in anticipation,

     

    Kind regards

     

    Dr Judith S. MacCormick

    Post-doctoral Research Fellow

    Organization and Management

    Australian School of Business

    University of NSW

    Randwick, 2052

    AUSTRALIA

     

    Phone: 9960 4060

    Mobile: 0419 285 255

    Email: judithm@agsm.edu.au

     



  • 2.  Decision Making for Company Directors

    Posted 10-07-2010 08:38

    Hello Judith,

    I find the CRM Learning material on Group Think to be an interesting twenty minute video with appropriate footage for management students or participants in a seminar. It comes with suggestions for delivery formats coupled with group think group exercises. It is somewhat costly but I have it in the library on reserve so business professors could use it across campus. CRM provides a trailer that could be a lead in to a discussion with a HBS case study if you feel that the video is too costly for your training seminar.

    Best wishes,

    Michael Provitera, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, Barry University, Miami, Florida

     

    http://www.crmlearning.com/Groupthink-P54289.aspx

    Groupthink

    CRM Produced

    Run time: 22 Minutes

    Dr. Irving Janis introduced the concept of "groupthink" by asking and then answering these questions: How do groups really make decisions? What drives groups to agree despite the better judgement of some, or even all, participants? Why do group decisions sometimes result in monumental error? What are the signals to watch for?

    Participants in Groupthink training gain an understanding of the eight symptoms and strategies for avoiding it. After seeing how the groupthink phenomenon may have caused the Challenger disaster, your organization's team consensus-building and process-implementation will be changed forever.

    Also mentioned are other historical events - the Bay of Pigs invasion, Pearl Harbor and the Cuban Missile Crisis - to explore and help demonstrate the phenomenon of groupthink.

     

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    From: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv [OB@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] on behalf of Judith MacCormick [judithm@AGSM.EDU.AU]
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    Subject: [OB-LIST] Decision Making for Company Directors

    Dear Colleagues,

     

    I have been asked to facilitate a 4-hour course on decision making for company directors. I would be most grateful for any materials, ideas, and particularly experiential exercises that some of you may have found useful for this type of workshop.

     

    I am very happy to collate ideas and forward them to those who are also interested in this area.

     

    With many thanks in anticipation,

     

    Kind regards

     

    Dr Judith S. MacCormick

    Post-doctoral Research Fellow

    Organization and Management

    Australian School of Business

    University of NSW

    Randwick, 2052

    AUSTRALIA

     

    Phone: 9960 4060

    Mobile: 0419 285 255

    Email: judithm@agsm.edu.au

     



  • 3.  Decision Making for Company Directors

    Posted 10-07-2010 08:56
    Hello Judith,

    You might check Board Source (http://www.boardsource.org/ ) - they have a lot of publications in this area.  Good luck!

    Best,
    Margaret

    ________________________________________________
    Margaret Andrews
    Associate Dean for Management Programs
    Harvard University
    Division of Continuing Education
    617.998.8550

    Organizational Behavior Division Listserv <OB@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU> on October 7, 2010 at 7:57 AM -0400 wrote:
    Dear Colleagues,

     

    I have been asked to facilitate a 4-hour course on decision making for company directors. I would be most grateful for any materials, ideas, and particularly experiential exercises that some of you may have found useful for this type of workshop.

     

    I am very happy to collate ideas and forward them to those who are also interested in this area.

     

    With many thanks in anticipation,

     

    Kind regards

     

    Dr Judith S. MacCormick

    Post-doctoral Research Fellow

    Organization and Management

    Australian School of Business

    University of NSW

    Randwick, 2052

    AUSTRALIA

     

    Phone: 9960 4060

    Mobile: 0419 285 255


     





  • 4.  Decision Making for Company Directors

    Posted 10-07-2010 10:58
    Recently I was sent this resource that houses a number of decision-making activities.  It's open to the public.  I'm intrigued to see what you come up with!

    http://kelley.iu.edu/bwheeler/ISWorld/index.cfm

    David


    -----------------------------------------------------
    David Geller, M.A.
    Doctoral Student
    Industrial-Organizational Psychology
    George Mason University



    On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Margaret Andrews <margaret_andrews@harvard.edu> wrote:
    Hello Judith,

    You might check Board Source (http://www.boardsource.org/ ) - they have a lot of publications in this area.  Good luck!

    Best,
    Margaret

    ________________________________________________
    Margaret Andrews
    Associate Dean for Management Programs
    Harvard University
    Division of Continuing Education
    617.998.8550

    Organizational Behavior Division Listserv <OB@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU> on October 7, 2010 at 7:57 AM -0400 wrote:
    Dear Colleagues,

     

    I have been asked to facilitate a 4-hour course on decision making for company directors. I would be most grateful for any materials, ideas, and particularly experiential exercises that some of you may have found useful for this type of workshop.

     

    I am very happy to collate ideas and forward them to those who are also interested in this area.

     

    With many thanks in anticipation,

     

    Kind regards

     

    Dr Judith S. MacCormick

    Post-doctoral Research Fellow

    Organization and Management

    Australian School of Business

    University of NSW

    Randwick, 2052

    AUSTRALIA

     

    Phone: 9960 4060

    Mobile: 0419 285 255