diff --git a/decision-making.md b/decision-making.md index e0ba4a4..c845d71 100644 --- a/decision-making.md +++ b/decision-making.md @@ -1,15 +1,38 @@ #Decision-making -There are at least two popular aproaches: -* Do-ocracy is an organizational way where every individual chooses own role and/or task and does it autonomously or in a team. But accontability sticks to actor who implement task/role but not who is officially assigned. - * The main advantages of this approach: big motivation and rapid implementation. - * Disadvantages are burn out of team core. -* Consensus is an organizational approach where decisions are made by agreement of a whole group of actors. - * Benefits are sustainibility and deep understanding tack and roles by each member of collective. - * Drawbacks: Very time consuming and not flexible. +There are several popular approaches to decision-making, some of which are detailed here: +* Do-ocracy is an organizational methodology where each individual chooses his/her own role and/or task and does it autonomously or in a team. In this model, accountability sticks to the actor who implements a task/role, not who is officially assigned. + * Advantages: + * Fosters a culture of participation and motivates community members to take on responsibilities for the good of the group. + * Can lead to much more rapid implementation, as there is little in the way of process to curtail progress on tasks. + * Allows those who want to accomplish something to simply start working toward their goals. + * Disadvantages: + * Burnout of team core, especially when people volunteer for too many jobs/tasks. + * If some key contributors volunteer for a large portion of the tasks, they may begin to resent others for not contributing as much. + * Some may volunteer to perform a task without the required expertise to complete it, yet there may be no mechanism for taking the volunteer off that self-assigned task. +* Consensus is an organizational approach where decisions are made by the unanimous agreement of a whole group of actors. + * Advantages: + * Reduces social hierarchy, as all members' votes are required to progress forward. + * Increases participation by all members of a group. + * Imposes a natural limit on risky or controversial changes. + * Prevents minority viewpoints within a group from being overrun. + * Disadvantages: + * Extremely time-consuming, as a single dissenter can prevent forward progress. + * Difficult to overturn previously-made decisions as members who espoused those ideas initially may be unwilling to recant. + * Can cause social pressure on all participants to reach quicker decisions, paradoxically resulting in some groups speeding too quickly toward decision-making. +* Parliamentary Procedure is a highly organized system of decision-making, governed by a fixed set of rules (such as Robert's Rules of Order). + * Advantages: + * Highly structured set of rules governs discussion, preventing personal attacks and the like from becoming commonplace, and reducing ambiguity. + * Generally requires a quorum of members present, to prevent the risk of a clandestine meeting held to push through a small group's agenda. + * Majority voting provides a clear, objective way to measure when a decision has been reached when a question is called to a vote. + * Disadvantages: + * Minority viewpoints can be overridden by votes, leading to a situation where an unscrupulous majority group could seize complete control over the body. + * Discussion can become interrupted by the process moving too quickly to a vote. + * People may feel less personally invested in the outcome from the other two systems (especially where they voted against the decision that was reached). -**Option: The better way is to combine the methods. ##References * https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do-ocracy * https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus +* http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/ConsensusDecisionMaking +* https://communitywiki.org/wiki/ParliamentaryProcedure