Culture and Group decision Making exercise
Group Decision Making Exercise –Step 1 Students form groups of 3-4 and each group takes a perspective Authority ranking, equality matching, communal sharing, market pricing
Step–2 Each group meets among itself and answers these questions as per the assigned perspective The problem The criteria to be considered for $$ How the criteria should be weighted AS PER YOUR ASSIGNED PERSPECTIVE What are the possible $$ distributions as Evaluate each possible distribution Select the optimal distribution
Step 3 Each group presents the reasoning of its decision to the class and other groups have a chance to question.
Questions How hard was it to adapt the assigned perspective? Which distribution system is fair? How would you feel if you had to reward or were rewarded with a system not typical of your culture? How will you deal with such a situation?