Exam 9: Developing Teamwork

Generation X managers, with their emphasis on information technology and speed, tend to be autocratic managers.

Positive leader-member exchanges tend to elevate the frequency of accidents because a leader is perceived as too easygoing rather than as a disciplinarian.

Nixon, a team manager, decides to split his group into two different groups. While the members of one group are invited to participate in processes like sales target determination and crisis management, the members of the other group are managed as per formal rules. Nixon's leadership practice is in accordance with the _____.

For e-leadership to take place, work must be:

In open-book management, workers are given information about the company's finances and strategy.

In the context of teamwork, _____ directly states that collaboration is better than competition.

Freelancers, or members of the "gig economy," are a huge part of modern virtual teams and can be a major benefit to many organizations if used correctly.

An important part of open-book management is to:

A challenge for the manager of multiple teams is that these teams might have cultures of their own, known as a _____.

Which of the following is an example of e-leadership?

A group with emotional intelligence is most likely to have a strongly developed norm of teamwork.

In a full form of open-book management, employee representatives vote on the amount of compensation paid to top-level management.

An example of a physical structure to facilitate communication among team members is a:

Crystal is an external leader of a team, so she:

Jacob is a team leader who recognizes that collaboration among members is essential to the success of his team. He should therefore first attempt to develop:

A recommended tactic for developing teamwork is to explain to a team that it has:

An e-leader relies heavily on information technology to accomplish the leadership aspects of his or her role.

Which of the following is a characteristic of group emotional intelligence?

Sadie, the managing director of a film production studio, addresses two sales teams, A and B, which are in charge of different products and who have different team leaders. While communicating a critical strategic decision of the company, members of team A have a pre-existing idea of what she is saying, while members of team B appear clueless. In this context, which of the following statements is most likely to be true?

A recommended method of selecting team members is to: