What Poses the Most Danger to Teams: Groupthink or Mismanaged Agreement?

What Poses the Most Danger to Teams: Groupthink or Mismanaged Agreement?

Leaders who collaborate with groups on particular projects are much more capable of
maximizing their productivity compared to working alone. However, there are a couple of
concepts leaders must be aware of and that is both groupthink and mismanaged agreement.
According to Social psychologist Irving (in Johnson, 2016), Groupthink is when a team of people
unanimously agree to a certain idea or behavior in order to save their unity within the group.
Their membership in the group is much more important to them than disagreeing with a certain
idea that may isolate them from the rest of the group. This particular concept is normal and
occurs in many areas of our lives. However, it can become dangerous especially when serious
misconduct occurs, and people refrain from addressing the ethical violation in order to save their
group membership. In contrast, groups that are mismanaged may find themselves participating
in projects, behavior, or even ideas that they disagree with due to the failure of communicating
and expressing their beliefs that may result in misleading assumptions (Johnson, 2016).
According to psychologists, people fall into mismanaged agreements when they are too anxious
or afraid to speak up and/or fear that they will be excluded from a particular group (Johnson,
2016). In my opinion, I believe both aforementioned concepts pose serious risks to teams or
organizations and are very similar to each other. They both require an individual or group to
speak up against ideas that may hurt goals within organizations.