Question

You have been asked to organize a problem-solving meeting. Based on what you learned in social psychology, which of the following is not a good way to make sure unique information gets shared at the meeting

A) Skip asking for everyone’s initial ideas and preferences at the beginning of the meeting

B) Make the meeting long enough so that unique information has time to be shared

C) Have a very forceful, directive leader to handle the meeting

D) Before the meeting, assign certain people to focus on specific parts of the problem

Answer 1

ANSWER :- Based on what i have learned in social psychology,the following which is not a good way to make sure unique information gets shared at the meeting is "Skip asking for everyone's initial ideas and preferences at the beginning of the meeting".

REASON :- It is so because opinions of members are very helpful with respect to finding any solution of a given problem.It will certainly brings out many different ideas,some of which may even turn out to be the possible unique idea.But by skipping these step of getting everybody ideas,will lead to reduction in ideas,thus the firm will be very less option to get the unique information,in comparison to asking everyone to give out their thoughts. Thus,it makes it not so good way to make sure unique information get share at meeting.