On our March 7th class we had a crazy and hectic class activity based on decision making. While I personally did not really learn anything about the decision making process, we as a class were able to see various examples of how people handle decision making conflicts. I believe we saw all Five types of the personality variations.
My way of handling the conflict was avoidance for the most part. While in the beginning I was feeling more accommodating, the longer it dragged on the less I cared. What I wanted most out of this conflict was a grading curve and not much more. The curve was accepted by the class early, so after that I didn't feel as strongly towards the other ideas. I did not really care about the format of the next test. While it would be nice to change it up, I got a pretty good grade on this test so it was fine with me.
I did know that everything had to be accepted or we get nothing. However like the professor said, people will feel like there is no hope. I was willing to accept most any of the suggestions as long as I get my curve. The other people in the class, unfortunately, would not be so easy.
If there was a way to do it over I think that there should have been roles assigned. There should have been a class representative or maybe multiple representatives; each representative handling a smaller section of the class. This way the smaller groups could be more easily managed. And finally at the end the representatives could get together and make a finally compromising decision.
