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{{stub|[[User:WinSysop|Tal Yaron]] 18:57, 12 January 2013 (IST)}}
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When a person tries to evaluate if a participation in a group is worthwhile, he takes in to consideration several factors. He will first see if the group is serving his purposes. Can the group promote his ideological needs (sum of all needs)? Can it serve his social needs (Masslow3,4)? Can it help him on his professional achievements (Masslow 1,2,3,4)?
===Decision influence===
The ability to influence in an equal decision making system, time must be divided by group participants. As more people enter into the decision making group, the relative time shared by other members is reduced by (n^2)/2 (See [[The problem of coordination|the problem of coordination]]). So the larger the group, the relative time to influence diminishes in an exponential ratea square.
If the group have strong decision makers (when some members of the group have more influence on the group), they may take more time resources and their ability to influence in this time is much bigger (due to legitimacy or acknowledgment, or subordination effects), and thus the new comers will have less time and influence, so most of them will be disencoreged to participate.
To solve this problem, many weaker decision makers will try to get more friendly with main decision makers, to influance the decision of the main decision makers (look for the price prince edvisors in Michavlli, Advisers (And "friends". Theis create This creates the very femiler phenomena of ass leakers).
to be continued....