What is meant by the term groupthink and identify four symptoms?

Running head : GROUPTHINK IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Groupthink in project management

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Groupthink in Project Management

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Groupthink refers to a situation whereby all the participants in the project are equipped with the necessary understanding of the progress of the project with a view of developing the best approach to achieve the set objectives . It involves communicating in one language . It therefore requires clear definitions of the objectives of the project . All the members working in the separate units as well as the divisions are harmonized together

for the purpose of the solution of the problem at hand . They are therefore capable of solving the blame game whose detriments results to detraction from the search of the solution to the problem the success as well as the frustrations of the individuals in the group are acknowledged

The individuals in the group are motivated to make consultations among them in a spirit of sharing the though as well the ideas inherent in each member as a basis of their development as well as implementation This eliminates the possibility of the members to work in vacuum The members work towards the goal of the elimination of conflict among them whereby a consensus is attained without the requirement for a critical testing the analysis as well as the evaluation of the ideas . The process requires that the members evade the promotion of the viewpoints that are external to the comfort zone with respect to the consensus thinking . Any attempt to fool or...