Consensus Versus Devil's Advocacy: The Influence of Decision Process and Task Structure on Strategic Decision Making
- 1 September 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in International Journal of Business Communication
- Vol. 30 (4) , 399-414
- https://doi.org/10.1177/002194369303000402
Abstract
This study compares decision processes of consensus and devil's advocacy within an additive task, a disjunctive task, and a conjunctive task structure. The results suggest that high-conflict decision processes such as devil's advocacy enhances decision making in disjunctive tasks, retards decision making in additive tasks, but has no effect on decision making in conjunctive tasks. Perceptions of the group's atmosphere were most positive within consensus groups.Keywords
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