Exam 13: Leading and Managing Project Teams

Conflict over the best approach can be useful since it may bring out creative discussion and lead to better methods.

The value of engaging a subject matter expert early in a project should be balanced against the potentially significant cost of paying for his or her expertise.

When a project team member is not performing,rewards may not prove as effective as a coercive approach that threatens the team member with undesired consequences.

Describe at least three approaches the members of your project team can employ to improve team performance.

Reward power relies upon persuading others based upon giving them some form of reward. It is most appropriately used when:

Frequently,project managers lack legitimate power based upon position and instead resort to persuading others based upon personal relationships. This type of power is known as:

Describe at least three alternative approaches to make decisions on a project team and describe when each is most appropriate?

All of the following are among the common sources of project conflict EXCEPT:

Which of the following is among the widely accepted project team success factors?

When a decision needs to be made quickly or requires significant authority it is often useful to delegate the decision to one or two team members.

When many members of the project team disagree,then it may be best to delay the decision,gather more data,or agree to let one person make the decision for the team.

The personal values of team members on high-performing teams can be enhanced through which of the following team behavior practices?

During which stage of team development do team members attempt to jockey for power,ask many questions and establish dubious goals?

All project teams progress uniformly through five stages of team development.

The personal values of team members on high-performing teams can be enhanced through all of the following effective communication practices EXCEPT:

Great team synergy can help make a team's capability better than the individual team member's capabilities.

Effective conflict management skills are rarely useful on successful project teams.

Project teams often adopt ground rules to address which of the following relationship topics?

All of the following are among ground rules that have proven widely useful to project teams EXCEPT:

Information is power. Withholding or distorting project information is a viable and potentially useful approach to increase power for the project manager.