Exam 11: The New Teams: Virtual, Global, Connected, and Self-Managing

Identify and define five things that ThinkTank and other GDSS address (as noted by GroupSystems CEO and President Luis Solis)

Identify and define two forms of self-management.

___ "is conceptualized as an individual's intrinsic motivation and specific self-efficacy to engage in cross-cultural experiences and master its nuances."

While increasingly popular, self-management procedures have received very little empirical support.

For decades, many people have questioned attempts to use learning theory to motivate employees. Now, some people are raising similar concerns about company efforts to teach employees behavioral self-management. They reason that, ""It's bad enough that we try to drive employees to work beyond their limits. Now we're teaching them to push themselves. Where will it all end?"" Do you agree? Why or why not?

___ teams are defined as "globally dispersed, culturally diverse, and technologically connected individuals who work interdependently with a limited lifespan of membership in order to accomplish a common goal."

In what stage of the team life cycle would training on conflict resolution be most important?

LeafHopper, Pin the Tail on the Donkey, RichRelations, StrawPoll, and MoodRing are all examples of ___.

Identify and describe six patterns of collaboration identified by collaboration engineering (CE)

Give six benefits of using a Group Decision Support System for brainstorming, relative to traditional brainstorming.

At the Nerdery, a fast-growing tech agency on Inc. Magazine's Hire Power Awards list discussed in the "TEAMS IN THE NEWS: Abandoning Job Titles at the Nerdery," the decision to do away with traditional job titles in favor of Co-Presidents titles for all employees was quickly abandoned after chaos and customer complaints.

___ refers to cumulative changes in the way Web pages are developed and used. Such a site may let users interact and collaborate in a social media dialogue as creators in a virtual community.

A ___ is defined as a network-based facility and organizational entity that spans distance; supports rich and recurring human interaction oriented to a common research area; fosters contact between researchers who are both known and unknown to each other, and provides access to data sources, artifacts, and tools needed to accomplish research tasks.

Which of the following is not true of team collaborative technology?

With self-management, "do your best" goals should be set for behavioral change.

The movement in organizations toward what has been called self-organization - freeing employees to figure out how to get the job done without central planning or control - assumes that employees will have the skills to proactively deal with workplace uncertainties and demands.

Identify three characteristics of virtual teams.

Which of the following is not true of virtual teams?

Which of the following is not true of self-management?

This chapter states that common forces are shaping the nature of teams, how team members will interact, potential team benefits and challenges, and other team processes and outcomes. It suggests that there is a convergence of mutually reinforcing developments that will be increasingly vital and symbiotic. As such, globalization, use of group collaborative technology and virtual teams, and self-management seem inextricably linked. Do you feel such a convergence is either probable or desirable?