Toseland Chapter 12

The specialized task-group method that uses suspending judgment of ideas and reducing analytical and evaluative thinking as rules for generating creative thinking is known as:

Brainstorming

MAU includes

Constraints

Benefits of NGT include

Encourages the expression of majority opinions

In brainstorming

Freewheeling is welcome, i.e., all ideas are welcome no matter how wild, repetitious or obvious

Uses of focus groups do NOT include

Generalizing to a population

Strategies in capacity-building for community organizations do not include

Helping the group to include members with opposing views who can challenge the group's premises

In parliamentary meetings, the motions that are concerned with procedural questions relating to issues on the floor are called

Incidental motions

In parliamentary meetings, the motions that introduce the central, substantive issues for group consideration are called

Main motions

Findings from the brainstorming literature that

Nominal brainstorming is better than regular brainstorming

Factors inhibiting group interaction that NGT tries to prevent does NOT inclue

Overt Judgements

In parliamentary meetings, the motions that deal with the agenda of the group meeting as a whole, including adjournment and recess motions, are called

Privileged motions

MAU is best for

Reaching high quality decisions

First proposed by Richards in 1974, this procedure can be used to list the negative consequences of actions quickly and thoroughly. It is most useful after a variety of ideas have been proposed.

Reverse brainstorming

In parliamentary meetings, the motions that assist in the handling and disposal, postponement, or amendment of motions on the floor are called

Subsidiary motions

Elements of focus groups do not include

The development of a discussion guide that should be strictly followed

Multi-attribute Utility Analysis (MAU) does not include

Voting

Procedures for using the Nominal Group Technique (NGT) do NOT include

Voting

Trigger groups do NOT include

Voting to arrive at a single solution

Preferred methods for working with community groups do NOT include

conflict strategies

MAU is a procedure for

decision making

bootstrapping is

engaging in actions that slowly build interest and committment

Quality circle core principles include

everyone on the team must participate to ensure that it works

Phillip's 66 is useful in

large groups

Limitations of parliamentary procedure do NOT include

the rights of the minority are protected

Focus group leaders should NOT

use sophisticated terminology to explain the exact nature of complicated points