Question

Peter Parker, the HR vice-president of a well-known IT firm, called his team members for a meeting to discuss the measures to be taken by the company to fight recession. Peter suggested downsizing the workforce and also cutting salaries and benefits of the rest of the employees. Peter's team reached a consensus without critically testing, analyzing, and evaluating his ideas. This is an example of ________.

Answer 1

groupthink

Step-by-step explanation:

In team discussions and debates, groupthink is a common phenomenon where team members tend to agree with others without a constructive discussion filled with arguments. It is very common when an authoritative person (manager) is leading the discourse of discussion.

In this example, the reached consensus is an example of groupthink, since the team members did not critically evaluate the troublesome issue.