Process and Outcome Expectations for the Dialectical Inquiry, Devil's Advocacy, and Consensus Techniques of Strategic Decision Making
- 1 June 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Group & Organization Studies
- Vol. 16 (2) , 206-225
- https://doi.org/10.1177/105960119101600207
Abstract
This study examined expectations of cognitive conflict, social conflict, decision confidence, and postdecision group affect in the dialectical inquiry, devil's advocacy, and consensus decision-making techniques. Expectations show some congruence with the affective, but not objective, outcomes found in prior empirical studies. Expectations were found to discriminate among dialectical inquiry, devil's advocacy, and consensus.Keywords
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