Exam 11: Developing Groups

Effective teams contain a small number of people with complementary skills who are equally committed to a common purpose,goals,and working approach.

Cohesiveness is important because it's been found to be related to the group's:

A group is defined as two or more interacting and interdependent individuals who came together to achieve particular objectives.

Groups which are natural formations that appear in the work environment in response to the need for social contact are called:

For individuals with a high power need,groups can be a vehicle for:

The degree to which members are attracted to each other and are motivated to stay in the group is known as cohesiveness.

The best way to describe a pseudo team is "going in the right direction but not there yet."

Work groups typically provide their members with all of the following EXCEPT FOR:

One of the appealing aspects of groups is that:

A product of negative synergy is known as:

Supervisors can do a number of things to overcome the obstacles in creating teams and help teams to reach their full potential EXCEPT FOR:

Norms dictate these things on the job EXCEPT:

A unit with a set of common characteristics that lead to consistently high performance is known as:

Groups and teams are the same thing.

Usually teams out perform individuals when the tasks being,performed require multiple skills,judgement,and experience.

"Going in the right direction but not there yet" is the best way to describe:

When a team has a meaningful purpose that all members aspire to is known as:

Emergent leaders have influence over all organizational group members.

Informal groups often:

Formal groups are work groups established outside the organization.