Rational consensus
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Rational consensus has been proposed as best practice
for group decision making
, across several academic disciplines, since the early 1980s. Mathematical model
ing of consensus processes was attempted as early as the 1950s.
A classic paper titled "Overcoming Resistance to Change" was published by Lester Coch and John French in 1948.
Best practice
A best practice is a method or technique that has consistently shown results superior to those achieved with other means, and that is used as a benchmark...
for group decision making
Group decision making
Group decision making is a situation faced when individuals are brought together in a group to solve problems. According to the idea of synergy, decisions made collectively tend to be more effective than decisions made by a single individual...
, across several academic disciplines, since the early 1980s. Mathematical model
Mathematical model
A mathematical model is a description of a system using mathematical concepts and language. The process of developing a mathematical model is termed mathematical modeling. Mathematical models are used not only in the natural sciences and engineering disciplines A mathematical model is a...
ing of consensus processes was attempted as early as the 1950s.
A classic paper titled "Overcoming Resistance to Change" was published by Lester Coch and John French in 1948.
See also
- Jürgen HabermasJürgen HabermasJürgen Habermas is a German sociologist and philosopher in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. He is perhaps best known for his theory on the concepts of 'communicative rationality' and the 'public sphere'...
- Kurt Zadek LewinKurt LewinKurt Zadek Lewin was a German-American psychologist, known as one of the modern pioneers of social, organizational, and applied psychology....
- Foucault–Habermas debate
- Markov chainMarkov chainA Markov chain, named after Andrey Markov, is a mathematical system that undergoes transitions from one state to another, between a finite or countable number of possible states. It is a random process characterized as memoryless: the next state depends only on the current state and not on the...
- Organizational development
- Stochastic processStochastic processIn probability theory, a stochastic process , or sometimes random process, is the counterpart to a deterministic process...