Facilitating Group Decision-Making: Facilitator's Subjective Theories on Group Coordination

Abstract: A key feature of group facilitation is motivating and coordinating people to perform their joint work. This paper focuses on group coordination which is a prerequisite to group effectiveness, especially in complex tasks. Decision-making in groups is a complex task that consequently needs to be coordinated by explicit rather than implicit coordination mechanisms. Based on the embedded definition that explicit coordination does not just happen but is purposely executed by individuals, we argue that individual coordination intentions and mechanisms should be taken into account. Thus far, the subjective perspective of coordination has been neglected in coordination theory, which is understandable given the difficulties in defining and measuring subjective aspects of group facilitation. We therefore conducted focused interviews with eight experts who either worked as senior managers or as experienced group facilitators and analysed their approaches to group coordination using methods of.... https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1244

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Facilitating Group Decision-Making: Facilitator's Subjective Theories on Group Coordination ; volume:10 ; number:1 ; day:30 ; month:10 ; year:2008 ; Forum qualitative Sozialforschung ; 10, Heft 1 (30.10.2008)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Kolbe, Michaela ; Boos, Margarete

Further information

• DOI: 10.17169/fqs-10.1.1244
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0901287
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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