Exam 12: Groups

The advantages of culturally diverse groups in the workplace include

According to your text,heterogeneous groups of people seem to do better on tasks requiring ________,whereas diversity in experience can hurt the performance of groups when success is determined by ________.

Whereas ________ helps groups to make better decisions than individuals alone,________ can make groups susceptible to poor decision making.

A style of group decision making that is characterized by a greater desire among members to get along than to generate and critically evaluate alternative viewpoints and positions,is referred to as

Which of the following is NOT a potential barrier to group decision-making?

During the Cold War years,the collective Russian farms had spectacularly low yields,whereas small,private plots kept by Russian citizens had phenomenally high yields.One reason for the poor production output of large,collective Soviet farms is

A classic experiment conducted by Lewin et al (1939)demonstrated that children guided by autocratic leaders

In the Phi Upsilon Nu sorority at Upstate University,sisters expect each other to party hard on the weekends,to get multiple navel piercings,and to wear the color pink.This set of shared expectations of how group members ought to behave is called

What is a dynamical system and what is the central lesson that has been produced by research on dynamical systems?

According to your text,when the task requires a ________ leader,a woman tends to be the best leader for the job.

Which of the following decreases the power of jurors holding minority views in the courtroom?

The disadvantages of diverse groups in the workplace include

The theory of social facilitation states that the presence of others improves performance on ________ and hinders performance on ________.

The space shuttle Columbia disaster,the Bay of Pigs invasion,and the decision to cover up the Watergate break-in were all mentioned in your text as examples of

Whereas ________ are expectations for how all group members should behave,________ are expectations for how particular group members should behave.

Briefly describe Ringlemann's experiment involving pulling carts and his discovery of an important element of group processes.Name and define this process.

Teams with high interpersonal cohesiveness are good at ________ but susceptible to ________.

Describe the qualities of a transformational leader.

The company officers are experts in different fields: finance,sales,etc.If they can effectively share information throughout the company,the company will make superior decisions relative to individuals as a result of the concept of

Lisa works on a team where all of the members are highly sociable.Her team should do particularly well on ________ tasks,but poorly on ________ tasks.