Exam 3: Managing Teams and Groups

When people in an organization begin to form cliques,and their group identity becomes so strong that they include and exclude people based on whether they fit the group's bias and perceptions is called ______.

The ______ theory states that the strength of ties between people,their spatial closeness,and the size of the group affects the quality and richness of communication in groups.

The phenomenon whereby members of a group exert less effort on a given task,than if those people were working as individuals,is known as ______.

According to West (2008)a sales team or a team of consultants is known as what type of team?

Michael West (2008)argued that team development should be viewed more as ______,than as stages

Ryan,the manager,asked staff that he was displeased with to choose a goldfish to represent themselves,then he would feed that goldfish to his piranha.According to Frost and Robinson (1999),Ryan was ______.

The ______ style for managing conflict ensures other's interests are met at the expense of one's own self interests

Why do people form groups? How do teams differ to groups,and what are some of the major problems associated with teamwork? How can such problems be minimized?

The ______ refers to those members of one's group or organization that are treated differently and inequitably compared to others in one's group or organization.

What was an effect of Solomon Asch's experiments on the subjects?

Explain Tuckman and Jensen's stages of team development model.What are its strengths and weaknesses,and what other models of team development are available?

What is a common outcome of social facilitation upon people performing complex tasks?

The ______ style for managing conflict ensures one's own self interests are met at the expense of others.

The concern with how groups form,their structure,size,processes,and how they function is known as ______.

According to your textbook why do people form teams?