Exam 11: Teams: Characteristics and Diversity

High-performing employees often feel the low-performing employees are rewarded more than they deserve in teams with high outcome interdependence.What could be a possible solution for designing a reward system which will keep all employees happy?

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.

A high degree of outcome interdependence exists when team members share in the rewards that the team earns.

Member 1 → Member 2 → Member 3 → Member 4 → Output Which type of interdependence is represented by this diagram?

_____ means that members receive rewards that are dependent on both their team's performance and how well they perform as individuals.

Individualistic role behaviors:

Differentiate between goal interdependence and outcome interdependence.Provide an example of each.

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

Identify and briefly describe the five aspects of team composition.

According to the value in diversity problem-solving approach:

Deep-level diversity has positive effects on team creativity when ______.

In _____ interdependence, members interact with a subset of other members to complete the team's work.

Which of the following is a team task role?

A high degree of _____ interdependence exists when team members share in the rewards that the team earns.

The effects of team diversity on team performance are independent of the nature of the team or the organizational context.

Leo Motors utilizes the classic assembly line in manufacturing its automobile products.Which type of interdependence is depicted?

Dan, Tom, and Philip work in different teams at Leo Motors.Tom's team ensures that all the raw materials, machinery, tools and other production equipments are available for the employees round the clock.Any procurement needs have to be addressed to Tom, who also takes a call on the strategic decisions regarding the number of units to be produced, exported, etc.Dan works in a team of eight members who concentrate on the day-to-day production.They also ensure the quality checks are done and inspect each other's work.Philip is the operation manager, who works for five hours in the production department and then heads off to assist the management.His feedback is very crucial in improving the production process.Philip works in the _____ team.

All of the following are metrics for measuring team performance except _____.

James participated in a problem-solving quiz competition with his friends.As Mark was the most familiar with the types of problems on the quiz, the team's performance depended entirely on Mark's performance.This type of task is called a(n):

Which of the following is most likely to be categorized as a work team?