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