Exam 13: Exploring Individual Differences and Team Dynamics

Before entering a tournament, a track team coach explained to the team the __________ of each team member for the tournament so that they each knew what was expected of them.

__________ rely on analysis, evidence, and logic rather than on feelings and personal values.

Match each term with the correct statement below. -assigning attributes to someone, not on the basis of individual characteristics, but solely on the basis of a category or group to which that person belongs

Each department at Seagate Engineering has a "safety group that meets regularly to review the safety procedures in their respective departments. These types of groups are referred to as

Resiliency is the ability to absorb high levels of disruptive change while displaying minimal dysfunctional behavior.

The enduring, organized, and distinctive pattern of behavior that characterizes people's adaptation to a situation is called

Match each term with the correct statement below. -members focus their efforts on seeking basic information, defining goals, developing procedures, and making a preliminary evaluation of how the group might interact to accomplish goals

People who are investigative according to the RIASEC Vocational Interest Typology prefer activities that include thinking, understanding, and organizing.

Relationship-oriented roles focus on behaviors directly related to establishing and accomplishing the goals of the group or achieving the desired outcomes.

Gene Thomas is the sales manager of Rocky Mountain Auto. One personality characteristic that has a positive relationship to performance of salespeople he hires is a belief that they can control events affecting them. This personality characteristic is

As measured by the "Big Five, conscientiousness is defined as the degree to which one is assertive and sociable.

Sally can study for an exam in the cafeteria or the main floor of the student union. She says that she doesn't even notice the noise of the other students. Sally is

One of your subordinates tends to like new and challenging situations. When this person makes decisions, s/he tends to "skip over details but tends to be spontaneous and fairly quick in arriving at conclusions to problems. This represents which trait in the Myers-Briggs scale?

Members of Jennifer Berry's group of engineers frequently experience conflict with one another as they attempt to resolve differences of opinion about key issues and relative priorities of goals. Jennifer's group is in which stage of the development process?

Which of the following Myers-Briggs types of personality characteristics is most closely associated with cognitive dissonance?

Informal groups in an organization

The __________ is an instrument that examines and measures an individual's preferred style of dealing with the world and the people in it.

__________ is the ability to absorb high levels of disruptive change while displaying minimal dysfunctional behavior.

Jason Smith, a mechanic for John Deere, believes that much of what happens to him is controlled and determined by outside external forces. Jason has a/an __________ locus of control

At Penn Optics, groups are trained to deal with __________, which is a tendency for one or more group members to expend decreasing amounts of effort and just go through the motions because their contributions are less visible.