Management and Organization Behavior: Module 3 - Case

Introduction

Coevolutionary war gaming is an offbeat situation arranging process put forward by Jeff Cares and Jim Miskel in their article "Take Your Third Move First" which basically expands the contention that arranging and consequent choice making ought not be led in a vacuum. Plans and choices made utilizing this "vacuum" procedure are naturally foolish worst case scenario since they ordinarily do not take the effect of the counter arranges and activities that could potentially be taken by the influenced parties into account (Johnson, 1994).

Discussion

When two or more individuals who have come together to achieve a common is defined as the group. These individuals interact with each other, and are dependent on each other. A group can be formal or informal. A formal group is the one, which is properly organized or structured, assigned work assignments, and establishing tasks. On the other hand, an informal group is the one, which is neither organizationally determined nor formally structured (Robbins, S.P., & Judge, T.A., 2012).

An organization takes the aid of group decision making in order to make effective and more efficient decision. As said, “Two heads are better than one” shows why most of the organizations prefer to use group decision making. Using group decision making an organization will be able to:

Generate more complete knowledge and information

Bring about more heterogeneity and inputs in decision making process

Take decisions from increased diverse views.

Consider more approaches, opportunities, and alternatives.

Achieve increased acceptance of a solution to a problem.

Managing a group sometimes can prove to be a very complex task, as the probability of disagreements between the members is quite high. The leader or the individual who is managing the group should implement following strategies in order to promote productive group management:

Clear and concisely communication

Praise the good work openly, and counsel privately.

Group member strengths and talents should be acknowledged.

Allow them freedom of speech

He should adopt the let go approach.

The scenario of the present market is quite competitive in order for companies to remain on the cutting edge strategic planning is to be used. The use of coevlutionary gaming is the non-traditional form of scene or scenario planning adopted by the different organizations in strategic planning. Integrating coevolutionary gaming in strategic planning helps an organization to anticipate complex strategic horizon, helps to tackle and counter unanticipated responses and challenges before their occurrence thereby staying one-step ahead of their competitors. Using the same, approach in-group decision approach can help to an organization to benefit from the group diversity and manage the challenges associated with decision-making process. This technique helps to acknowledge diverse variety of possible scenarios, and provides the organization to with the ability to make best possible decisions.

The use of JoHari window allows the leader to stay in touch with its followers, as leader gets to know about the team or group it leads. It combines the leader and group members into a single unit thus, allowing them to make decisions that in the best interest of the ...