Exam 12: Developing and Leading Teams: Part B

Which role of a team member involves building team-centered feelings and social interactions?

Desktop videoconferencing systems (DVCSs)are useful to virtual teams because they

A_____team has highly interdependent,competent,and empowered members who work together effectively on a daily basis to manufacture an entire project or provide an entire service to a set of customers.

The type of group created by management to accomplish certain organizational goals is a:

The effective size of a team can vary from ____ members to a normal upper limit of about ____ members.

According to the Teams Competency: Empowered Teams at W.L.Gore & Associates,which of the following is true of Gore's "lattice structure":

Use of a team-building process can shorten or mostly avoid the ____ stage of group development.

Collaborative software systems are useful to virtual teams because they:

J.R. ,Juanita,Peter,Susan and Wes were working on a marketing plan for a new product.At one point,when the team was trying to make a relatively insignificant decision,they got bogged down for almost 10 minutes because nobody had a necessary piece of information.Finally,Susan suggested that they move on to another topic and come back to the decision in question the following day,when someone could bring the necessary information.In this case,Susan was acting in a ____ role.

A ____ refers to any number of people who share goals,often communicate with one another over a period of time,and are few enough so that each individual may communicate with all the others,person-to-person.

The Learning From Experience feature: Boeing's Development of Teams and Their Leaders,illustrates all of the following about effective teams except:

Which of the following statements about informal groups in organizations is true?

In the_____stage of team development,work behaviors evolve into a sharing of information,acceptance of different opinions,and positive attempts to make decisions that may require compromise,as the members set the rules by which the team will operate.

In order to promote effectiveness,leaders should strive to attain all of the following characteristics in their teams except:

Virtual teams operate across ____ boundaries.

A_____team usually include employees who work together daily on similar tasks and must coordinate their efforts.