GROUP TECHNIQUE (Nominal)
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(1) |
| ID | ◀ 1472 ▶ |
| Object type | Human sciences, Methodology or model |
A technique “used to enable a participant group to generate, clarify, and to initially assess relative saliency of factors relevant to an issue” (J. WARFIELD, 1989, p.2)
WARFIELD uses this evaluation technique as a feature of his “Interactive Management” and “Generic Design Science”. It is meant to reveal ideas, opinions and beliefs of participants about some issue, and to measure their diversity.
He explains the technique as follows: “Members of the group work from a context statement about the issue to generate ideas about the issue, silently. Then there is a round-robin recording of the ideas. Next there is a formal period of clarification of the ideas, aimed at assuring that anyone in the group has the opportunity to understand every idea. As used by the Center for Interactive Management, the last step in applying Template:Ency entity is to ask each individual member of the group to vote anonymously on what that individual believes are the five ”most important“ ideas in the set of ideas that remains after clarification. This voting record becomes part of the permanent data set on how members of the group share or do not share beliefs about relative importance of constituent factors in the complex issue under consideration. It allows a ranking pattern to be produced reflecting a group product at a certain point in time in considering the issue” (1991, p.198).