Exam 3: Building and Developing the Team

Depending on the goals of a team, increasing team cohesiveness may or may not foster the best interests of the organization.

The team size associated with either one member being unhappy or coalitions constantly having to shift is the:

Control based on norms is sometimes called clan control.

Self-oriented roles are roles that members adopt for personal gain.

There are three primary stages of group development.

___ are shared expectations about how team members should behave.

It is appropriate to vary team membership across tasks, but not over the course of a particular task.

Which of the following would not tend to build team cohesiveness?

In which stage of group development do members become more assertive in their roles, and their personalities begin to become clearer?

Following Lance Armstrong's fall in the 2003 Tour de France his closest rival, Jan Ullrich, waited for him to remount rather than to speed ahead and gain precious seconds. This is given as an example of social presence effects.

Defining the team's assignment involves specifying the team's purpose, responsibilities, and needs.

Another name for team spirit is ___.

Discuss factors that may influence optimal team size.

Which of the following is not a way to encourage ""hot groups""?

Provide four guidelines for team management suggested by the chapter's discussion of norms.

A long-time team member says, "This team has really changed recently. The ways we were expected to behave in the past just don't seem to apply anymore." What might have happened to change team norms?

Beyond size ___, team management becomes much more difficult.

Specify four team sizes and describe the effects of each.

The various "hats" we wear in life are called ___.

Briefly discuss the steps in defining the team's assignment.