Exam 6: Project Team Building, Conflict, and Negotiation

Your first project team meeting got off to a bad start when the functional manager for your team's physician refused to allow her to attend the meeting. This:

The Dean's laissez faire attitude hit its zenith when he had missed five department chair meetings in a row despite the pressing needs of the MBA Curriculum Revision Team. No one was sure what to do so they did nothing, and the MBA program remained as it had always been as the revision team slunk back to their offices. If only there had been:

A manager engaged in conflict mediation may choose to:

Everyone in the Tagi tribe agreed to vote out Gervasse at the next tribal council. Their 39-day project to make it to the final four together was two steps away from completion. This project group is in the:

Productive interdependencies hinge upon:

The fact that a project experience was worthwhile and satisfying means that the project scored high on:

Conflict is not a state, but a:

The globalization committee was halfway through their first meeting before the team leader realized that his boss had granted him authority that wasn't going to be agreed to by the functional managers of his team. After the meeting, his team members reported back to their units and the team leader's phone began to ring. The source of the conflict he is about to experience is:

Conflict associated with disagreement in project scope, priorities, or objectives is:

Team building and conflict management are two of the more important and difficult __________ that project managers can cultivate.

The punctuated equilibrium model of team development says that:

The project wouldn't have been possible without the combined efforts of its members from several different functional areas of the organization. Each member contributed what he could and left other pieces of the puzzle to other members with the requisite skills. This reliance on the team was a classic example of __________.

The husband in the marriage project meekly apologized and hid in the garage while the other project team member rampaged through the house. The husband holds the:

The operations team had a weekly gripe session during the two hours before their 7:30 p.m. appointments on Wednesday evenings during which everyone gleefully unloaded on the powers that controlled their miserable lives. This session was valuable since it:

Flexibility, creativity, and pragmatism are three keys to:

Which two steps of project team building are out of sequence?

An unwritten rule of behavior is a(n):

The two sets of factors that contribute to cross-functional cooperation influence:

Two research studies conducted over a decade apart discovered that the major sources of conflict within project teams are:

Cross functional cooperation directly affects both: