Exam 12: Group Behavior and Effective Teams

Team goals and leadership are clear at the beginning of the storming stage.

Which of the following is/are true about many team meetings?

List the three components of team effectiveness.

In cross-cultural settings,Westerners often have difficulty understanding the indirect communications of non-Westerners.

Bausch and Lomb found that a Web-based collaboration tool _________ synergy by decreasing the number of meetings,giving people more free work time to get things done.

Goal commitment tends to be strong during which stage of team development?

What strategy involves removing a team member when other options have failed?

Identify and discuss at least two challenges often faced by multicultural teams.

Teams cannot function well without trust.

For cross-functional teams,diversity can be which of the following?

_______________ is when one or more team members is also a formal member of another team.

Social facilitation is the opposite of social loafing.

Which of the following is not one of the three main components of team effectiveness?

Which trait(s)lead(s)to good team performance?

List at least three advantages of cross-functional teams.

Quality circles and suggestion teams are both types of _________ teams.

What type of technologies allow real time communication and interaction?

Group members tend to test what types of behaviors are acceptable in the group during the _________ stage.

Work groups always require social skills.

Use Bruce W.Tuckman's basic five-stage model to explain in detail how groups become teams.