Group decisions involving participants with com-mon interests are typical of many organizational
decisions. Even if we assume a group with com-mon interests, individual group members will each
have their own motivations and, hence, will be in
con¯ict on certain issues. Nevertheless, since the
group members are `supposed' to be striving for
the same goal and have more in common than in
con¯ict, it is usually best to work as a group and
attempt to achieve consensus. This mode max-imizes communication as well as each group
member's stake in the decision.