Question

Stephanie is a corporate trainer. One of her favorite ways to start a training program is to present a case study and encourage members to think of the case in depth and discuss it amongst each other. Using the results of the activity, she understands the baseline measures of the group's functioning. During one of her recent sessions, she observed that the group came to a consensus very quickly. However, when asked to present their views, the team members were not too confident and appeared to be under an illusion of unanimity. From this scenario, we can say that this group experienced _______________. Group of answer choices diversity groupshift role conflict groupthink

Answer 1

Answer: Groupthink

Explanation:

Groupthink could be defined as a scenario when a group uniformly agrees to a decision whether it's right or wrong, make the decision together and resist any other form of reasoning. Groupthink occurs most times when a group is tired of constructive analysis and criticism of what they are asked to decide on. It encourages bad decision and allow members of the team ignore problems and solutions to solving problem

The group Stephanie was handling experienced a Groupthink, where everyone just went with the same decision irrespective of whether it was right or wrong.