Group Model Building Using Systems Dynamics to Achieve Enduring Agreement /

• Main Author: Scott, Rodney (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Operations Research,
• Subjects: Operations research.; Decision making.; Industrial psychology.; Organization.; Planning.; Operations Research/Decision Theory.; Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

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 expla...

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.