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 Template:Ency term” (Template:Ency person, 1989, p.2)
Template:Ency person 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 Template:Ency term, and to measure their Template:Ency term.
He explains the technique as follows: “Members of the group work from a Template:Ency term statement about the Template:Ency term to generate ideas about the Template:Ency term, 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 Template:Ency term, 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 Template:Ency term of ideas that remains after clarification. This voting record becomes part of the permanent Template:Ency term on how members of the group share or do not share beliefs about relative importance of constituent factors in the complex Template:Ency term under consideration. It allows a ranking Template:Ency term to be produced reflecting a group product at a certain point in time in considering the Template:Ency term” (1991, p.198).