Exam 11: Teams: Characteristics and Diversity

Work at Digicorp is accomplished continuously because members of a team who have finished their workday in one country electronically hand off the work to team members in another country who have just arrived at their workplace. This type of workflow is known as _____.

Which of the following statements about leader-staff teams is False?

Identify and briefly describe the five aspects of team composition.

Team viability refers to the likelihood that the team can work together effectively into the future.

According to the similarity-attraction approach, a team with high diversity will have high team effectiveness.

Team members prefer low task interdependent situations when there's low outcome interdependence.

Which of the following is True of teams?

The orienter determines the direction of the team's discussion.

Which of the following is a team building role?

Summarize the five-stage progression model of team development.

In reciprocal interdependence, members are specialized to perform specific tasks.

Team reward structures with hybrid outcome interdependence reward members based on how well they perform as individuals rather than overall team performance.

Jackson High School formed several teams to plan and execute the 150^th anniversary celebrations of the school. Over a period of two months, the teams organized events, oversaw logistics, and coordinated student activities. The events that were planned were on a large scale and required a lot of input from the teachers and students. This is an example of a(n) _____ team.

In a group, the member performing the role of the devil's advocate:

In the _____ stage of group development, members experience anxiety and other emotions as they disengage and ultimately separate from the team.

With pooled interdependence, group members complete their work assignments independently, and then this work is simply "piled up" to represent the group's output.

While _____ teams focus on the accomplishment of core operational-level production and service tasks, _____ teams focus on integrating the activities of subunits across business functions.

Tasks for which the contributions resulting from the abilities of every member are considered in total to determine team performance are called _____.

Cora frequently challenges the teams' assumptions and status quo. Cora exhibits the devil's advocate role.

_____ diversity refers to diversity with respect to attributes that are less easy to observe initially but that can be inferred after more direct experience.