Decision Making

Making a decision wasn't as easy as it seemed like. Decision making process took a lot of arguments and a lot of debates.Our class had to make a final decision on the exam grade and the format of the other exam. The students had different ideas. Some of them were screaming out their ideas, some of them decided to stay on the back of the class and stay quite, some others would chose to talk a few times. The most dififcult part consisted on the fact that we did not specifically assigned a leader, even though a few students self chosen decided to play a leader role. The leader power was very low comparing to the group power which was very high. The role of the self chosen leaders were mostly to provide resources and encouragment but the final decision was based on the group as a whole. In this case of decision making  I believe that the group support should be really strong. I think our support on the decision was very strong , besides a few students which did not understood our final decision and chose not to agree with it. I think at the point the self chosen leaders of the class played an important role explaining the final decision more clearly to the students who had a few confusions. The conflict reached its peak at the moment that we all had to vote on the final decision.Considering the fact that our final decision would not effect all of us the same I chose to compromise. I tried to work as a mediator among the extreme opinions and chose the one that would somehow benefit us all in the future. I chose to compromise talking in consideration the fact that in class we are all equal besides the grades that we got. Even the students with the lowest grades and the ones with the highest grades needed to be treated equally. Even though  I believed that the decision that we made would not benefit me the best I supported it. I sow the problem from a bigger prospective which was to help the entire class. If I wouldn't taken in consideration other classmates I would have been more aggressive about the decision and play more "Compete  to win" I would have insisted more on a different decision that would personally benefit me more and I wouldn't have voted for the final decision. I mostly took in consideration that this is a group decision and not a personal one where every body's power is the same. In this cases compromising is the best choice. I chose to compromise and in that kind of situation I wouldn't have behaved differently. COMPROMISING is the best behavior in a group decision situation. I think we made a very good decision and every one accepted it. No one personalized the situation. We acted mature and reasonable with each other. I was happy with the decision and with everyone's behavior.