Gruppenentscheidungen innerhalb der Beobachtungskonferenz im Rahmen von Assessment Centern

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Psychologie - Arbeit, Betrieb, Organisation und Wirtschaft, Europäische Fernhochschule Hamburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Assessment center play an important role in todays business life. It canbe a successful method to select and evaluate potential candidates forvacancies. Unfortunately group decisions made by the observancecommittee are not necessarily more successful than a decision made by a single person. Therefore this paper deals with the question how anassessment center should be organised to maximize the qualitativedecisions made by the committee. Literature research is the base of thisthesis work progress and leads to the final results of this assignment. The main focus lies on the phenomenon"groupthink" and the "commonknowledge" effect.