id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-15116 Tower, Kathleen R. Small-Group Interaction among Professional Librarians 1997-03-01 15 .pdf application/pdf 7231 337 54 Members of effective groups carefully test their decision alternatives and match them against the group�s pre- established decision criteria, and criti- cally evaluate each alternative in the same manner that they evaluate the opinions and assumptions of their fellow mem- bers, forcing themselves to consider all aspects of an alternative. Small groups consisting of professional librarians were used to test Hirokawa’s theory, and the results showed that group decision performance is directly related to the group’s efforts to perform critical vigilant decision-making functions. cache/crl-15116.pdf txt/crl-15116.txt