Exam 13: Exploring Individual Differences and Team Dynamics

Individuals with low self-esteem take more risks in job selection.

As a group grows larger communication and coordination among members becomes more difficult.

Roles are relatively lasting beliefs, feelings, and behavioral tendencies held by a person about specific objects, events, groups, issues, or people.

The perceptual process is filled with many possibilities for misunderstandings or errors in judgment.

Perceiving people, as measured by Myers-Briggs, tend to see all sides of a situation and to welcome new perspectives.

A group is considered to be homogeneous when it is composed of individuals having similar group-related characteristics, backgrounds, interests, values, attitudes, and the like.

Suppose you are good at working with computers and occasionally help your supervisor overcome a computer problem. If your supervisor develops an overall impression of you solely on the basis of your ability to solve computer problems, he or she runs the risk of making an error in perception referred to as

The cellular phone product launch team at Niagara Communications consists of five middle managers. All of the group members are middle-aged males, come from a marketing background, and are native New Englanders. This is an illustration of a __________ group.

The RIASEC typology suggests that if the individual's personality matches his/her career type; s/he will be less likely to leave that career or job.

As a group grows beyond several members, it becomes much easier for all members to participate effectively.

For tasks that are standard and routine, a __________ group functions more quickly. For tasks that are nonroutine and require diverse skills, opinions, and behaviors, a __________ group yields better results.

Stereotyping is a generalization or the tendency to assign attributes to someone, not on the basis of individual characteristics, but on the basis of a category or group to which that person belongs.

Giraldo's position requires travel. He has noticed that his company rejects many of his legitimate expenses. Giraldo has very high ethical standards and does not even tell social "white lies," but when he talks with other managers that travel, they all tell him to embellish his travel expenses. The other managers tell Giraldo that he is the only one that doesn't get totally repaid for his travel and the only way to get repaid to exaggerate the expenses. If Giraldo starts embellishing his expenses, he will probably feel

Self-esteem indicates the extent to which people believe they are capable, significant, and worthwhile.

It is not enough for a group of people to think of themselves as a team; other people must also recognize them as a team, as separate from the larger social system.

The workplace safety group at Miller Manufacturing consists of three females and two males. The female members of the group include one top manager from marketing, one middle manager from finance, and one front-line manager from the shop floor. The two male members of the group include one outside director and one front-line manager from the loading dock. This is an illustration of a/an __________ group.

__________ ability is important for problem-solving because it involves the capacity to transform information, generate alternatives, memorize, and consider implications.

A type B personality is characterized by impatience, a desire for achievement, aggressiveness, irritability, and perfectionism.

The four critical requirements of a group include: interdependent relationship, interaction, common purpose, and mutual influence.

__________ groups in organizations are not formed or planned by organizational members. Rather, they are self-created and evolve out of the formal organization for a variety of reasons.