EFFECTS OF DEVILS ADVOCACY AND DIALECTICAL INQUIRY ON DECISION-MAKING - A METAANALYSIS

被引:100
作者
SCHWENK, CR
机构
[1] Department of Management, School of Business, Indiana University
关键词
D O I
10.1016/0749-5978(90)90051-A
中图分类号
B849 [应用心理学];
学科分类号
040203 ;
摘要
For the past two decades, researchers have been investigating the effects of two techniques for promoting and managing cognitive conflict on decision making; devil's advocacy (DA) and dialectical inquiry (DI). Reviewers of previous experiments have reached different conclusions about whether the DA and DI are superior to a simpler expert (E)-based approach involving no conflict and whether the DI is superior to the DA in improving decision making. In this paper, meta-analysis has been applied to the results of all previous experiments on the effects of the DA and DI on decision making. The results suggest that the DA is more effective than the E approach in general. However, the superiority of the DI to the E was not demonstrated in experiments using relatively ill-structured tasks. Neither the DA nor the DI was shown to be a more effective method of introducing conflict into decision making. The meta-analysis provides directions for future research which are offered in the Conclusions. © 1990.
引用
收藏
页码:161 / 176
页数:16
相关论文
共 40 条
[21]  
Mitroff I. I., 1981, ACAD MANAGE REV, V6, P649
[22]   ASSUMPTIONAL ANALYSIS - METHODOLOGY FOR STRATEGIC PROBLEM-SOLVING [J].
MITROFF, II ;
EMSHOFF, JR ;
KILMANN, RH .
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, 1979, 25 (06) :583-593
[23]  
MITROFF II, 1977, MANAGE SCI, V23, P44
[24]  
Rosenthal R, 1984, METAANALYTIC PROCEDU
[25]   VALIDITY GENERALIZATION RESULTS FOR 2 JOB GROUPS IN THE PETROLEUM-INDUSTRY [J].
SCHMIDT, FL ;
HUNTER, JE ;
CAPLAN, JR .
JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY, 1981, 66 (03) :261-273
[26]   META-ANALYSES OF VALIDITY STUDIES PUBLISHED BETWEEN 1964 AND 1982 AND THE INVESTIGATION OF STUDY CHARACTERISTICS [J].
SCHMITT, N ;
GOODING, RZ ;
NOE, RA ;
KIRSCH, M .
PERSONNEL PSYCHOLOGY, 1984, 37 (03) :407-422
[27]  
SCHWEIGER D, 1988, P NATIONAL ACADEMY M
[28]   THE COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF DIALECTICAL INQUIRY AND DEVIL ADVOCACY - THE IMPACT OF TASK BIASES ON PREVIOUS RESEARCH FINDINGS [J].
SCHWEIGER, DM ;
FINGER, PA .
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, 1984, 5 (04) :335-350
[29]   GROUP APPROACHES FOR IMPROVING STRATEGIC DECISION-MAKING - A COMPARATIVE-ANALYSIS OF DIALECTICAL INQUIRY, DEVILS ADVOCACY, AND CONSENSUS [J].
SCHWEIGER, DM ;
SANDBERG, WR ;
RAGAN, JW .
ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, 1986, 29 (01) :51-71
[30]  
Schwenk C. R., 1983, Decision Sciences, V14, P467, DOI 10.1111/j.1540-5915.1983.tb00200.x