Exam 8: Teamwork and Team Performance

What are norms? What is cohesiveness? How are norms and cohesiveness related?

Team building is an effective way to deal with teamwork difficulties when they occur or to help prevent them from occurring in the first place.

__________ form when subgroups emerge within a team due to issue-specific disagreements.

A role is a set of expectations associated with a job or position on a team.

To achieve group consensus,members should adhere to all of the following guidelines EXCEPT:

Describe the characteristics that enable a high-performance team to excel at teamwork.

The nominal group technique is a group decision-making approach that involves structured rules for generating and prioritizing ideas.

Generally,the more cohesive the group,the greater the conformity of members to group norms.

__________is a "logically perfect" group decision making method because all team members agree totally on a course of action.

Distributed leadership is the sharing of responsibility,by all members,for meeting individual needs.

Disruptive behaviors that can harm group process include all of the following EXCEPT:

Inter-team dynamics are relationships between groups cooperating and competing with one another.

Research in social psychology suggests that the achievement of sustained high performance by groups requires that members' task needs and maintenance needs are met.

In decision by lack of response,one idea after another is suggested without any discussion taking place.When the team finally accepts an idea,all others have been bypassed and discarded by simple lack of response rather than by critical evaluation.

Proxemics refers to the use of space as people interact.

__________ involves generating decision-making alternatives in groups through a series of survey questionnaires.

The last step in the team-building process occurs when members work together to evaluate the results.