Analyzing The Four Categories Of Group Decision-Making

1. Miles and Snow identifies four categories that a business responding to uncertainty will do. They state that a business will fall into one of them. The four categories are prospector, defender, analyzer, and reactor. The first is prospector, it is creative and growth-oriented, looks for new markets and new successful opportunities, and is risk taking. Example of this is when a company branches out to make new products. The second is defender, which reduces operating cost. Such as when a company does layoffs. The third is analyzer, where as they maintain the current market plus some moderate creativity. When a company sells their main product as their biggest revenue but also dabbles and some new products is an example of an analyzer. The …show more content…
A participative management involves employees in the decision-making process. There are five possible advantages for group decision-making. The first being greater pool of knowledge. With a group of people there is a better chance of someone having the knowledge or experience in an area that someone else might not. The second being different perspective. Everybody has a different perspective on ideas, so it's good to look at a problem from different points of view. Third being intellectual stimulation. When a group of people is brainstorming there's a better chance of coming up with an original decision than it would be with just one person. The fourth being better understanding of a decision rationally. A person would understand the decision better, if they were in the process of helping to come to that decision. Deeper commitment to decision is the last. Being part of the decision-making would make someone be more committed to seeing that decision being …show more content…
Organization culture is a unique personality that an organization has. There are three types of organization culture. They are observable artifacts, espoused values, and basic assumptions. Observable artifacts would be the reputation of the company or how the managers and employees behave themselves. Espoused values are values that are put in place from the top managers and they are the preferred way of values. Basic assumptions represent values in an organization's culture. When I worked for Giant Eagle, they had a motto for employees that’s states, “Go the extra mile.” The employees would go above and beyond what their job required, when a costumer needed help. Such as if someone asks you where they would find something in the store, as an employee you should have them follow you to the item not just tell them what isle it would be in. They said there was nothing more important that an employee could be doing than helping a customer. Giant Eagle has a motto of the customer comes first above all