Exam 7: Working and Writing in Teams

A team at Jamison, Inc., an advertising agency, is working on a new advertisement for a nutrition bar. The head of the team, Luka, suggests that the advertisement should target primarily the rich. The team thinks this is a bad idea because the manufacturers are targeting a young market, and young people are unlikely to be rich. However, because of Luka's argumentative nature, the team goes along with him, which results in the creation of an advertisement that the client rejects. Which of the following is demonstrated in this scenario?

Informational dimensions of teams focus primarily on promoting friendliness, cooperation, and team loyalty.

A way to resolve a team conflict in which one person criticizes everything is to ask the person to follow up the criticism with a suggestion for improvement.

Active listening is sufficient to reduce the conflict that arises when two people want apparently inconsistent things.

A team of six members have been asked to work together on a report. They are deciding whether one of the members should do all the writing while the others gather information, or whether the entire team should work on the writing together. In this scenario, the team is in the ________ stage of their collaborative writing project.