Exam 14: Team Leadership

The functional perspective on group leadership contends that the leader has a special responsibility to do whatever is necessary to meet the needs of the group.

I am using controlling, coordinating, mediating and synthesizing as I focus on issues to help the team complete goals. Which type of leadership decision making am I using?

What are the two critical functions of team effectiveness in Hill's model?

Internal relational leadership actions include all of these except

Day et al. refer to shared leadership as

Taking executive action that is remedial is

To achieve team effectiveness, the team leader must

External leadership actions include:

External environmental actions include

Characteristics of team effectiveness include all of the following except

Gender is not mentioned as a relevant factor in this model, but has been mentioned in previous Chapters of our textbook. How would Watson and Hoffman (2004) predict that male and female leaders would be perceived when using the team leadership model? What would you predict?

What needs to happen for the team to effectively perform and to have solid development?

A mistake commonly made is to call a work group a "team" but treat it as a collection of individuals.

Leadership decisions include all of the following except

Examples of organizational teams can include all of the following except

Our food product development team has an excellent sense of team unity and employs a spirit of camaraderie in daily operations together. Which characteristic of team excellence is our team displaying?

I am a leader who is focused on influencing the team in positive ways to be effective. Which characteristic of team excellence am I displaying?

Current research on groups focuses more on team variables than exclusively on outcomes of team performance.

An advantage that effective teams can bring to organizations is

In virtual teams, relational functions are more critical than in traditional, face-to-face teams.