The Adverse Effects of Groupthink Group or team decision making can display benefits and has been implemented in every area of lives, we may make decisions as a community, a family, part of a work team, and in government. Government will frequently have meetings, a task force, a committee, or some other collective body, by which they get together and seek out the best possible plan to execute a needed program or design. As a society we have witnessed some extremely beneficial ideas from groups coming together, while we have also seen some disastrous failures.
“Researchers have given the less desirable outcome the name of groupthink, which is when the group is polarized and displays bias in the decision making process (Kassin, Fein, & …show more content…
By 1960, Castro has shown himself to be a dictator, leaning towards communism and Eisenhower has the CIA set up a task force with a covert program in place. The program continues and decides to set up resistance to Castro, and set up paramilitary movement, with plans that the Cubans will overthrow Castro with the help of the United States. “By the summer of 1960 minutes of group meetings indicate declining confidence in the effectiveness of the guerilla efforts to overthrow Castro (National Security Archive, 2015).” When President Kennedy was elected, he had been in a very short time and the CIA was pushing to go ahead with the plan in which they had been working on for over a year. “It was D-Day, April 16, 1961: the landing of Brigade 2506 was hours away, and their ships were in sight of the Cuban shore. At his weekend retreat in Virginia, President Kennedy was under pressure to call off the invasion. The day before, eight B-26 bombers had attacked the main air base of the Cuban Air Force (Friedman, 2011).” Without further aid by the United States the 89 members of the brigade were killed and most of the others were taken prisoner, this turned out to be a disaster for Kennedy and the American government (Friedman, …show more content…
Understanding all of the steps that had been taken previously would probably led to questioning on his part, although this did not happen enough in this circumstance. Secrecy was preserved by the CIA, and this prevented more questions from being asked. “Third was faulty decision structures when Kennedy dismantled President Dwight D. Eisenhower's national security decision-making structures, a disorganized and collegial system remained; this prevented policy from the rigorous analysis institutionalized by Eisenhower's procedures (Friedman, 2011).” Lastly, it is said that this fiasco was produced by groupthink on the part of Kennedy’s advisors (Friedman,
“Researchers have given the less desirable outcome the name of groupthink, which is when the group is polarized and displays bias in the decision making process (Kassin, Fein, & …show more content…
By 1960, Castro has shown himself to be a dictator, leaning towards communism and Eisenhower has the CIA set up a task force with a covert program in place. The program continues and decides to set up resistance to Castro, and set up paramilitary movement, with plans that the Cubans will overthrow Castro with the help of the United States. “By the summer of 1960 minutes of group meetings indicate declining confidence in the effectiveness of the guerilla efforts to overthrow Castro (National Security Archive, 2015).” When President Kennedy was elected, he had been in a very short time and the CIA was pushing to go ahead with the plan in which they had been working on for over a year. “It was D-Day, April 16, 1961: the landing of Brigade 2506 was hours away, and their ships were in sight of the Cuban shore. At his weekend retreat in Virginia, President Kennedy was under pressure to call off the invasion. The day before, eight B-26 bombers had attacked the main air base of the Cuban Air Force (Friedman, 2011).” Without further aid by the United States the 89 members of the brigade were killed and most of the others were taken prisoner, this turned out to be a disaster for Kennedy and the American government (Friedman, …show more content…
Understanding all of the steps that had been taken previously would probably led to questioning on his part, although this did not happen enough in this circumstance. Secrecy was preserved by the CIA, and this prevented more questions from being asked. “Third was faulty decision structures when Kennedy dismantled President Dwight D. Eisenhower's national security decision-making structures, a disorganized and collegial system remained; this prevented policy from the rigorous analysis institutionalized by Eisenhower's procedures (Friedman, 2011).” Lastly, it is said that this fiasco was produced by groupthink on the part of Kennedy’s advisors (Friedman,