Exam 7: Understanding Group and Team Behaviour

You find that in a team situation you prefer to be the one who examines for details and is concerned with enforcing rules and regulations.Your role is called the:

Julia,Ann and Jason are all part of the same organisation,working in the same department.According to the organisational chart,Ann and Jason have to report to Julia. Based on the available information,they are part of a:

Several years ago you began a small retail store to sell computer parts.The store grew and the business expanded to offer computer repair and custom computer programming.You have noticed that people have definite expectations about what their appropriate role within the expanding company should be. To clear up confusion,you have decided that you must come to an unwritten agreement with each employee about your mutual expectations.To address this,you decide to develop a(n):

Explain the decision making phenomena groupthink and groupshift.

Only some groups have established norms.

Members in a group are interdependent.

Which of these statements best describes research found on group size?

Group cohesiveness is increased with each of the following except:

Which is not one of the stages in the five- stage group- development model?

A work group creates positive synergy.

For permanent work groups,performance is the last stage in their development.

Teams must receive the necessary support from management and the larger organisation if they are going to succeed in achieving their goals.

If cohesiveness is high and performance norms are low:

Group decisions are more likely to be accepted than individual decisions.

A work group is a group that interacts primarily to share information and to make decisions to help each member perform within his or her area of responsibility.

Acceptable standards of behaviour that are shared by the group's members are:

One problem of the five- stage model of group development is that it ignores organisational context.

Which is not a weakness of group decision making?

According to your text,the group size that exercises the best elements of both small and large groups is:

Sarah,Adam and Jacob frequently get to work on the same projects.Within the projects,they are all aiming to achieve the same goal and they frequently have to consult with one another to achieve the end result.Moreover,they each take on different roles with the projects,serving different functions.At the completion of the project,they often get complemented on their team efforts rather than their individual contributions. The relationship held by Sarah,Adam and Jacob is a work team rather than a work group because they: