Exam 9: Foundations of Team Dynamics

stages of team development that your team will probably experience after the new recruits join the team.Your answer should recognize that only half of your corporate investment team members are new; the others have been with the team for more than one year.

Which of the following statements about teams and groups is FALSE?

According to Brook's Law,adding more people to a late software project tends to:

reasons why employees join informal groups in organizational settings.

Informal groups exist primarily to complete tasks for the organization that management doesn't know about.

Team norms usually remain the same even when the group is disbanded and replaced with people with different values and experiences.

Which of the following organizational environment features potentially affects team effectiveness?

Social loafing is more common among people with collectivist values.

During which stage of team development does a consensus form around the team's objectives?

Team success,team size,and member similarity are three:

The motivation to be part of an informal group is influenced mainly by the drive to:

Two important elements of the team's environment are the team's size and composition.

Research concludes that individuals working alone are usually more successful than teams at identifying problems and developing alternatives to problems.

Heterogeneous teams tend to be more effective than homogeneous teams on simple tasks requiring a high degree of cooperation and coordination.

Employees tend to have a stronger sense of belongingness when they worked in teams rather than alone

Employees working in a department would be considered a team only when:

"Faultlines" are more likely to occur when teams that:

How do norms affect the behavior of team members?

Compared to people in low cohesion teams,members of high cohesion teams:

Teams work better when there are several layers of management and team members are encouraged to communicate mainly through their immediate supervisor.