Parliamentary procedure in a community group: Communication and vigilant decision making

Applied communication research in the 21st century

“…They conducted on-site observations and interviews with key employees and identified seven incidents that were crucial in this process. Weitzel and Geist (1998) sought to determine how various community organizations used parliamentary procedure to make decisions. Extensive observations of various community groups in the San Diego area revealed that although there were frequent violations of technical aspects of parliamentary procedural rules, the organizations used parliamentary procedure in benign ways, largely as a mechanism to allow members to voice their opinions and to foster a sense of "groupness."…”