Exam 8: Participative Management and Leading Teams

The XYZ team manages its own work,has members with different expertise,shares leadership,and has power to implement its own decisions while it coordinates activities with other teams.Based on this description,the XYZ team is:

Culture determines which aspects of teams are expected and rewarded.

Groups have shared norms;teams have a shared culture.

Once leaders have a sub-group of followers they know and can trust,they should delegate tasks to that subgroup.

Self-leaders are individuals who:

Selena has a new project for a key client that she needs to delegate to one of her employees.This is a complex and important project.Which of the following employees should she pick?

Most organizations use a combination of traditional structures and teams.

In the U.S,low power distance facilitates participation.

John has found that delegating tasks allows him to manage his own workload and stress.What other potential benefit does delegation offer John?

The case of Kiwi Airlines is an example of:

___________ is one of the key factors in effective teams.

Because followers' mistakes often are blamed on the manager,manager should avoid delegating tasks that they think their followers are not ready to do.

Which is not a criterion for the use of participation programs?

Nelson has been a successful manager for over 30 years.He has considerable expertise and makes most of the decisions by himself.He supervises over 200 people who are spread-out across 20 states.Using employee participation may be a challenge for Nelson because of:

Delegation affects employees in all of the following ways except __________.

XYZ Corporation recently created a new project team to investigate the feasibility of introducing a new line of products.Nigel was appointed leader of the team and during the first meeting he lead the team through a series of activities intended to clarify goals and member roles as well as create norms for acceptable interaction.This approach is best known as________ .

In spite of cultural and other differences,one of the keys to successful implementation of teams is:

Genencor International started its employee participation program:

Not delegating tasks may be valid and acceptable ______________,but not effective ____________.

Ford Motor Co.is an example of a company that: