At a recent meeting, one member of a department put forward a controversial motion for consideration by
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At a recent meeting, one member of a department put forward a controversial motion for consideration by department members. During the meeting, the member spoke forcefully about the importance of adopting the motion, and was supported by two other members who also aggressively expressed their support. Other members of the department expressed doubt about whether the motion was a good idea, and one even explained how the data being used to justify the motion was inaccurate, but the dissenting voices were quickly silenced by the member who had proposed the motion. Whenever a member started to express arguments against the motion, the person who had proposed it would interrupt, discount what others were saying, and repeat their view on why department needed to adopt the motion. At the end of the meeting, the department voted to adopt the motion with 53% in favour and 47% opposed. The disadvantage of group decision-making that is best evidenced in this case is:
a. devil’s advocate
b. bullying
c. domination
d. dissent suppression
e. group-censorship
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