THE FIVE POPULAR WAYS OF MAKING A FINAL DECISION: WELL SIMPLIFIED

                             

1.       CONSENSUS:

The decision to make lies in the hands of the group members. All members argue and debate till they all agree on a final decision to take that will benefit all the parties in the group. There would be no centralization of decision. All members must come to an agreement.

2.       COMPROMISE: The group members may raise their suggestions and out of the suggestions made the leader picks a side which leads to a compromise. The difference between majority vote and compromise is that, members opinions are adhered to depending on the winning side. But in compromise there is no voting but a decision must be made and will be made. So therefore a party ends up happy some don’t. But in Majority vote the losing party accepts defeat knowing their views are not strong enough.

3.       MAJORITY VOTE:

Decisions may not favor all individual in the group. But we are sure it would favor the majority in the group, because the decision is based on the suggestions of the majority in the group. The majority of those that support an idea or decision is taken over the ones who do not support a particular decision.

4.       DECISION BY LEADER:

Decisions here are made by the leader regardless of what the group agrees on or what they suggest. Decisions in the group are solely made by the leader. The opinions of the members do not count in this decision making process.

5.       ARBITRATION:

In arbitration decision making process, it has been said that the group including the leader cannot come to an agreement so an external party is invited to help generate a solution.

Decisions are not made by any party in the group but by an external representative.

BY: JESSICA OYEKANMI