Identify two work-related problems for which the nominal group technique is particularly well-suited.?

Question

The nominal group technique (NGT) is recommended for a situation in which a leader needs to know what alternatives are available and how people will react to them. In the NGT, a small group of people contribute written solutions to the problem. Other members respond to their ideas later. Members rate one another's ideas numerially, and the final group decision is the sum of the pooled individual votes.

Answer 1

A group work schedule would be an example where NGT would work well. Any schedule that had enough workers on duty to perform the work is satisfactory. The main criteria is whether the workers will be happy and perform well. The workers are the best source of that information.

A Physics problem would be an example where NGT does not work. Yahoo answers provides a good example of that. There is usually only one right answer and it does not depend on how people feel about it. If it's a tough question (the kind a person might be most likely to ask), then very few people would know the right answer. Voting would be more likely to yield the wrong answer.