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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Group Model Building
    sub title: Using Systems Dynamics to Achieve Enduring Agreement
  name:
    name part: Scott, Rodney.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: si
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: IX, 138 p. 30 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This book describes the cognitive and interpersonal effects of group model building, and presents empirical research on what group model building achieves and how. Further, it proposes an integrated causal mechanism for the effects on participants. There have been multiple previous attempts at explaining the effects of group model building on participants, and this book integrates these various theories for the first time. The causal mechanisms described here suggest a variety of design elements that should be included in group model building practice. For example, practitioners typically try to reduce complexity for clients, to make the process feel more accessible. In contrast, the findings presented here suggest that the very act of muddling through complexity increases participants' affective commitment to the group and the decisions made. The book also describes implications for theory and practice. System dynamics has traditionally been interested in using technical modeling processes to make policy recommendations. Group model building demonstrates that these same techniques also have implications for group decision making as a method for negotiating agreement. The book argues for the value of group model building as a mediating or negotiating tool, rather than merely a positivist tool for technical problems.
  table of contents: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Desired Outcomes of Group Decisions -- Chapter 3: Basic Elements of Group Model Building -- Chapter 4: Outcomes of Group Model Building -- Chapter 5: Communication Quality, Insight, Consensus and Commitment to Conclusions -- Chapter 6: Mental Model Alignment -- Chapter 7: Explanatory Mechanisms for Group Model Building -- Chapter 8: Comparing Participant Support for Different Explanatory Mechanisms -- Chapter 9: Building Integrated Theory -- Chapter 10: Discussion.
  note: by Rodney Scott.
  subject:
    topic: Operations research
  subject:
    topic: Decision making
  subject:
    topic: Industrial psychology
  subject:
    topic: Organization
  subject:
    topic: Planning
  subject:
    topic: Operations Research/Decision Theory
  subject:
    topic: Industrial and Organizational Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Organization
  classification: HD30.23
  classification: 658.40301
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: SpringerBriefs in Operations Research
  identifier: 9789811089596
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8959-6
  record info:
    record creation date: 180612
    record change date: 20191027091129.0
    record identifier: 978-981-10-8959-6