The Impact Of Social Motivation And Accountability On Group Decision-making

The organization management environment is becoming more and more complex,and group decision-making is related to many people's wisdom and experience,as well as the universality of existence.Social motivation of members is an important factor affecting group decision making.The current research on social motivation in group decision making is based on an implicit assumption,that is,although there is a cooperative motivation or a selfish motivation,members of the group all hold the same motive.In the actual group decision-making situation,the group may also hold different social motives.Therefore,this study mainly discusses the impact of different types of social motives within the group on group decision-making,and further examines the effectiveness of "accountability" in improving the quality of group decision-making based on the results.This study consists of two experiments.All were intersubject experiments using the hidden profile paradigm.Experiment 1 examines the impact of different types of social motivation on group interaction process and decision quality.The experiment was conducted in the form of a three-person group.Different types of social motives included all cooperative motives,most cooperative motives,all self-interested motives,and most self-interested motives.According to the results of experiment 1,experiment 2 added the accountability condition to explore whether the accountability(process accountability,result accountability,control group)would improve the information reference rate and decision-making quality accuracy in the interactive process of group decision-making.The results of experiment 1 show that(1)The proportion of information mentioned in group decision-making under the same motivation conditions(especially the proportion of non-shared information mentioned)and the quality of decision-making quality are significantly higher than the majority of group members holding the same motivation.(2)the information reference rate(especially the non-shared information reference rate)and decision-making quality accuracy rate of the cooperative motive driven group are significantly higher than those of the self-interested motive driven group.(3)All cooperation motivations drive the most information,the decision quality is the best,followed by most cooperation motivation driving conditions,and the third is the majority self-motivation driving conditions,the least information sharing under the driving conditions of the self-interested motivation,the worst decision quality.The results of experiment 2 show that both process accountability and result accountability can effectively improve the proportion of information mentions and the accuracy of decision quality.Under most self-interested conditions,there are significant differences in the correct rate of decision-making quality between the two accountability methods;under all self-interested conditions,there is no difference in information sharing and decision-making quality between the two accountability methods.Conclusion:(1)the more cooperative motivation the group has,the more information sharing(especially the non-shared information)the group makes,and the higher the decision quality score.(2)both process accountability and result accountability can improve the information sharing proportion and decision-making quality accuracy of self-interested motive driven groups and most self-interested motive driven groups.