id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
absel-1598	McAfee, R. Bruce; Herring, Robert A.	The Crime Fighting Task Force: An Exercise in Organizational Politics	1993	5	.pdf	application/pdf	5561	241	51	Its objectives are: (1) to teach students about the nature of hidden agendas--their cause, purpose, and effects on group decision making (2) to familiarize students with various political tactics used by individuals while making group decisions and show their effect on the group decision making process (3) to give students practice in identifying political tactics and hidden agendas and to improve their observation skills (4) to show participants the interrelationships among hidden agendas, group decision making, and political tactics. After committee members finish their deliberations, and elect a representative to present their decision to City Council, observers meet in-groups of four or five to try to identify each committee member’s political tactic(s).	cache/absel-1598.pdf	txt/absel-1598.txt