Loose-Leaf Edition for Management
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Author: Angelo Kinicki, Brian K. Williams
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Chapter 7.6, Problem 2SA7.4
Summary Introduction
To critically think about:
How to increase minority-dissent in a group decision?
Introduction:
Minority-dissent is the sense of freedom the members of a group experience in order to put forward their opinions and ideas in front of the majority of that particular group. This is a productive group decision methodology to yield better results from the group decision.
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Loose-Leaf Edition for Management
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