Exam 14: Teamwork and Communications

As information seeps downward, it tends to lose some of its original clarity and often becomes distorted or downright wrong.

In contributing to the new-product design and development process, industrial designers such as Chris Arnholt must effectively communicate both ideas and practical specifications.

Teams don't always work.Identify four factors that make it less likely that teams will succeed in an organization?

Which of the following is true regarding group cohesiveness?

Briefly compare and contrast the four main categories of teams.

If a person yawns in a meeting he or she is demonstrating nonverbal communication.

Self-managing work teams are often allowed to schedule assignments, but they are rarely allowed to fire coworkers.

Gayle, Dan, Mary, and Peter are exceptional people in their attitudes toward work.They have been placed on a _____ made up of workers who perform shared tasks and make many of the decisions previously made by their supervisors.

Every team requires some mixture of the following three skills:

Good communication skills can make decisions more convincing and certain and problem solving faster.

What are the steps identified by Dale Carnegie that you should follow to create and deliver successful presentations?

Communication may flow laterally in organizational settings, but more often it flows up or down.

The design and development process usually succeeds even without input from other areas of the organization.

Chris Arnholt made recommendations for the design of the RAZR through drawings, models, and verbal communications.