Exam 11: Team Characteristics and Processes

The degree to which team members interact with and rely on other team members for the information,materials,and resources needed to accomplish work for the team refers to:

Production blocking occurs when team members have to wait on one another before they can do their part of the team task.

Tata Motors utilizes the classic assembly line in manufacturing its automobile products.This is an example of which type of interdependence?

Which of these teams is created for the purpose of providing recommendations and resolving issues?

During which stage of team development do members realize that they need to work together to accomplish team goals and begin to cooperate,and build solidarity?

When members of a team develop strong emotional bond to other members of the team and to the team itself,it refers to which of these?

One aspect of team effectiveness is team viability,which may include metrics such as quantity and quality of goods or services produced,customer satisfaction,the effectiveness or accuracy of decisions,victories,completed reports,and successful investigations.

In sequential interdependence,the member performing the tasks in the latter part of the sequence depends on the member performing the task in the earlier part of the sequence,but not the other way around.

_______ diversity refers to diversity regarding observable attributes such as race,ethnicity,sex,and age.

Research studies have shown that potency has a strong positive impact on team performance.

In sequential interdependence the interaction only occurs between members who perform tasks that are next to each other in the sequence.

Work teams are designed to be temporary.

Jill's tendency to listen to Harry and ignore Dick reflect which factor in effective decision making?

Define brainstorming.Identify the rules used surrounding a brainstorming session.Discuss why brainstorming doesn't work as well as individual idea generation.

Planning teams are an example of which of the following?

This team's strong belief that they can be effective across a variety of situations reflects which of these?

_______ diversity refers to diversity with respect to attributes that are less easy to observe initially but that can be inferred after more direct experience.

It appears that Josh is always mediating differences between the group members as they work on the case analysis needed for their class.Josh is playing which of these roles?