Exam 12: Organizing Around Teams

A team that uses technology to link physically dispersed members in order to achieve a common goal is called a virtual team.

Groupthink has the ability to undermine critical thinking in the group and harm the quality of decision making.

Research on conformity suggests that ________.

Which one of the following is true about group decision making?

One important distinction between a work group and a work team is the degree of interdependence among the members.

In global teams, cohesiveness is often more difficult to achieve because of higher levels of mistrust, miscommunication, and stress.

The typical interaction between a buyer and seller of a car in which offers are made and countered is an example of ________.

Michael thought they should start by reviewing what had been done in the past. Michelle thought they should study the current situation first. This is an example of ________ conflict.

Groups that are determined by the organization chart and composed of individuals who report directly to a given manager are called ________.

Social loafing is the tendency for an individual to expend less effort when working collectively than when working individually.

Task groups are permanent teams that take on special projects.

________ interact primarily to share information and to make decisions to help each member do his or her job more efficiently and effectively.

A group's performance potential depends to a large extent on the individual resources its members bring to the group.

In the group development process, the forming stage is complete when members begin to think of themselves as part of a group.

She was the matriarch of the department, the most senior employee. She always sat immediately to the right of the manager in all department meetings. No one dared take her chair. That chair was a symbol of her ________.

Which one of the following is true about social loafing?

Celine feels that the form of marketing their company is using isn't working anymore. Merle disagrees vehemently. Those in the company who view the conflict over the marketing strategy as bad and harmful have a(n) ________ view of conflict.

Stacey was invited to become a member of the class project team because the other members knew she had a high GPA and worked hard on all her individual assignments. Although the other members worked diligently to complete their parts, Stacey was not giving her best effort to this team. Which of the following is a possible explanation for Stacey's behavior?

Whenever one of her group got within ten feet of her, Christine chirped, "Oh good! You've come to help me." This group is likely to have low productivity because ________.

This group should have worked well together. Each of them had at least five years seniority and had scored well on past performance evaluations. They all knew what needed to be done. But it seemed they were always in disagreement about something. This group probably lacked ________.