Groupthink

Groupthink - occurs when the members of a highly cohesive group lose their willingness to evaluate each other's inputs critically. It is a phenomenon (coined by Irving Janis) that describes the negative effects that can take place in team dynamics, such as excluding information sources; a tendency in highly cohesive groups for members to seek consensus so strongly that they lose the willingness and ability to evaluate one another's ideas critically (see Northcraft & Neale, 1990, p. 377).

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Groupthink - A situation in which critical information is withheld from the team because individual members censor or restrain themselves, either because they believe their concerns are not worth discussing or because they are afraid of confrontation. (ASQ definition)

Source: The Data Governance Institute, 09 December 2009 09:07:49, http://www.datagovernance.com/glossary-governance/

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Groupthink - A situation in which critical information is withheld from the team because individual members censor or restrain themselves, either because they believe their concerns are not worth discussing or because they are afraid of confrontation.

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Source: American Society for Quality, 25 September 2010 08:45:35, http://www.asq.org/glossary/