Exam 9: Work Teams and Groups

All of the following would be considered positive norms of behavior within a group except:

Psychological intimacy and integrated involvement need to be achieved in the same team or group.

Performance norms are among the most important group norms from the organization's perspective.

The contributor role in a team is usually occupied by someone who:

Match the following: -Integrator

One of the contributing factors to the violent and aggressive acts that led to the riot that destroyed Los Angeles following the Rodney King verdict in the early 1990's included:

Match the following: -Upper echelon

Social loafing is usually:

Teams are appropriate where:

The standards that a work group uses to evaluate the behavior of its members are its norms of behavior.

Groups emphasize shared leadership, mutual accountability, and collective work products.

A team-oriented work environment places emphasis on:

Upper echelon theory argues that:

Whereas psychological intimacy is more emotion based, integrated involvement is more behavior and activity based.

Which of the following includes the set of interpersonal issues that need to be addressed according to the group development model?

The two sets of social benefits available to team or group members include:

Match the following: -Cohesiveness

Employees must be properly focused through careful planning and preparation before the power of empowerment strikes.

According to the group development model in the text, the most common way for decisions to be made within a cohesive group is to vote and follow a simple majority rule.

Match the following: -Punctuated equilibrium