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.
I think even it was seperated into small groups,if it was still unanimous decision, it would be conflicted someway because each representative of the small groups would have stronger emotion to insist their selected group opinions than when it was just own their opinions with responsibility.
ReplyDeleteI was just like you. As the chaos was going on around me, I chose to use the Avoidance approach because of the fact that I had already gotten what I wanted, which was the grading curve and the extra credit assignment. I for one don't agree that I didn't learn anything from this class. I definelty have learned the fact that decision making can be a big pain in the neck if not organized properly. I strongly agree with you though on the notion that we should've set up several smaller teams that would work together to resolve this madness, and in the end try to combine the decisions through representatives. Although I still think the representatives would have had to fight against each other in the end.
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