Exam 8: Group and Team Behavior

Providing individuals credit or blame for their separate inputs,may make social loafing less likely to occur.

A group of employees meets weekly at lunch to discuss their favorite fiction writers.This relationship may be best described as a ___________ group.

For the most part,___________ teams are composed of individuals from the same department or area of an organization who meet together to address and solve a specific problem.

A professor believes he should demonstrate proper business dress in the classroom.To this professor,wearing business attire is a ___________ role.

Teams have been classified in all of the following means except _________.

Joe and a collection of other students have come together to present a series of complaints to the Dean.This relationship may be best described as a ___________ group.

Teams typically have reached the mature or "performing stage of development".

When individuals in a group shirk or contribute less than their optimal effort they may be exhibiting _________.

Cohesiveness can have positive or negative impact.

A team is best defined as a collection of individuals in which behavior and/or performance of one member is influenced by behavior and/or performance of other members.

Describe the Asch experiments.How can we use these findings to improve group outcomes? A.One after the other,the members announced their decision.The confidants had been instructed to give an incorrect response.The subject sat in the next to last seat so that all but one had given the incorrect answer before he or she provided his or her response.The average student conformed to every group response on 32 percent of the trials and 74 percent of the subjects conformed to the incorrect response at least once. The results of the Asch experiment were astonishing,especially since the correct answer was entirely obvious.Subjects had to override the evidence they observed or provide an answer that conformed to the others. When interviewed afterward,subjects said that they had been influenced by group pressure,not wanting to appear silly,and the need to avoid criticism from others.Each student perceived the group as a reference group that provided information through their responses on the group norms.

Teams ___________.

Describe the leadership role in groups.How does one become an effective group leader?

What is role conflict and what are its primary sources?

The most basic classification of group types may be ___________.

While classified as "informal," friendship groups can have beneficial organizational impact.

What is groupthink and the organizational characteristics which may prompt its emergence?

Formal and informal groups seem to possess a closeness or commonness of attitude,behavior,and performance.This closeness,referred to as ___________.

Jehn and associates defined the concept of diversity as being comprised of three types: __________.

A role may include __________.