Exam 12: Work Groups and Work Teams

Age,gender,and race are examples of what kind of diversity?

Which of the following has been identified as an important team KSAO?

John has just joined a team at New Millennium Enterprises,and the team's success depends on their innovation.What type of diversity should John try to increase?

A _____________ occurs when members of a group openly share diverging views,respect one another's opinions,and focus on finding a solution that is acceptable to team members.

Which of the following is NOT a specific property of a work team mentioned in the text?

Your manager has just informed your department that a new directive has created the formation of autonomous work teams at your place of employment.He claims that these groups will benefit employees and the organization since job satisfaction and job performance will increase.Does the research on autonomous work teams support his statements?

Your instructor assigns each member of the class to a work group and then gives a task that requires the group to work together.The grade on the task is the sum of the combined performance of the individual members' outputs.This type of task is known as

For which of the following factors would a team need to innovate?

As an individual you generally feel that $10 per person is an appropriate amount to spend on a going away gift for your long time supervisor,but you are in the minority.Although the average of the group's opinion is that 15 dollars is appropriate,the group decides that $20 is best.What is this deviation from the group mean towards a more extreme position is an example of?

Groups of employees who meet periodically to discuss problems and propose solutions relevant to their jobs are called

Which of the following is NOT one of the factors that characterize team-building efforts?

Your instructor is interested in determining whether students perform better when working in work groups or alone.He takes the scores of a group of students that studied and took the tests alone and compares them to a group of students who studied and took the test together.The group that worked individually is known as a

The sum of forces attracting group members and keeping the group together is known as

Which of the following is a specific property of a work team mentioned in the text?

Groupthink was NOT a factor in

Some work groups are closer and have a sense of "team spirit," this could be attributed to higher

Your manager has just informed your department that a new directive has created the formation of quality circles at your place of employment.He claims that these groups will benefit employees and the organization since job satisfaction and job performance will increase.Does the research on quality circles support his statements?

Most team building efforts are either__________ oriented or _________ oriented.

Which of the following statements about groups is TRUE?

Your boss asks you to advise her as to the value of sending work groups from New Millennium Enterprises to a Team Building seminar.What would you tell her the research on team building suggests?