Exam 10: Developing High Performance Teams

NuForm Ltd's executive team met today to discuss and decide whether to fund an experimental design for the company's main product.Individually,most executives were willing to invest some seed money for the project.However,by the end of the meeting,the team had collectively decided to allocate a large percentage of next year's development budget for this risky and uncertain project.Based on your knowledge of group polarization,explain what might have happened to cause this shift towards such a risky decision.

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Group polarization refers to the tendency of teams to make more extreme decisions than individuals working alone.At NuForm,individual executives initially formed slightly risky preferences (i.e.some funding for the design),but the group decision moved to a more risky option than the average individual's preference.There are three reasons why this happens:
a.Through open discussion,members become comfortable with more extreme positions when they realize that their views are also held by others.
b.Persuasive arguments favoring the dominant position convince doubtful members and help form a consensus around the extreme option.
c.Since the final decision is made by the team,individuals feel less personally responsible for the decision consequences.

You have just agreed to send your unit of salespeople to a team building session in which they must play war games.Your employees are divided into two groups,one of which defends a flag and the other tries to steal it,then defends it for themselves.The war game takes place in a swamp several kilometers outside the city.What type of team building would this activity represent?

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Identification-based trust is the most robust or sturdy form of trust in work relationships.

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Members of SDWTs have enriched and enlarged jobs.

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conditions that Cadhersh needs to consider so that the new plant supports self-directed work teams.Your answer should discuss these features in the context of the chocolate bar manufacturing process.

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Production blocking and evaluation apprehension:

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Which type of team building activity primarily tries to resolve conflicts among team members?

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Question 7

Virtual teams have more difficulty than conventional teams at performing ambiguous and complex tasks.

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Question 8

Which type of team building helps members to clarify and communicate their expectations of each other?

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Question 9

In most self-directed work teams,the supervisor assigns tasks that individual team members perform.

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Question 10

Group polarization occurs when:

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Virtual teams are best described as:

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A symptom of groupthink is that the team feels comfortable with risky decisions because possible weaknesses are suppressed or glossed over.

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Question 13

Two features that distinguish virtual teams from conventional teams are:

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In a typical virtual team,one member located near headquarters is the source of all communication among team members.

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Question 15

Group polarization is evident when team members:

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Which of the following occurs when team members shift responsibility for a decision to the collective team rather than to themselves personally?

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Question 17

The three main foundations of trust are:

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Virtual teams are similar to conventional face-to-face teams in many ways,but they do differ with respect to task and team member characteristics.Explain how virtual teams need to be different from conventional teams regarding the tasks that should be assigned to the team and the necessary team member characteristics.

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Question 19

Groupthink characteristics cause team members to be ___________ their decisions.

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Identification-based trust is the most robust or sturdy form of trust in work relationships.

Members of SDWTs have enriched and enlarged jobs.

conditions that Cadhersh needs to consider so that the new plant supports self-directed work teams.Your answer should discuss these features in the context of the chocolate bar manufacturing process.

Production blocking and evaluation apprehension:

Which type of team building activity primarily tries to resolve conflicts among team members?

Virtual teams have more difficulty than conventional teams at performing ambiguous and complex tasks.

Which type of team building helps members to clarify and communicate their expectations of each other?

In most self-directed work teams,the supervisor assigns tasks that individual team members perform.

Group polarization occurs when:

Virtual teams are best described as:

A symptom of groupthink is that the team feels comfortable with risky decisions because possible weaknesses are suppressed or glossed over.

Two features that distinguish virtual teams from conventional teams are:

In a typical virtual team,one member located near headquarters is the source of all communication among team members.

Group polarization is evident when team members:

Which of the following occurs when team members shift responsibility for a decision to the collective team rather than to themselves personally?

The three main foundations of trust are:

Groupthink characteristics cause team members to be ___________ their decisions.

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