Exam 12: Developing and Leading Teams: Part A

Agreed-on guidelines or procedures for making decisions is not a core characteristic of effective teams.

Superordinate goals are likely to have the same effect on the willingness of individuals or teams to cooperate if they are accompanied by individual-based rewards.

Global teams may only operate like virtual teams.

A team will only have one leader.

Groupthink is an agreement-at-any-cost mentality that results in ineffective team decision making and poor decisions.

Superordinate goals are goals that two or more individuals,teams,or groups might pursue but which can't be achieved without their interaction and cooperation.

Low cohesiveness is typically accompanied by low conformity in a team.

Informal groups,such as friendship groups,have only positive effects in organizations.

Teams that fundamentally reorganize work and change the roles of managers are problem-solving teams.

Informal leadership is emergent in a team,which means that it develops without the formal intervention of the designated leader.

Desktop videoconferencing systems (DVCSs)are useful to virtual teams because they allow more complex communication among team members.

Team problem solving is likely to be superior to individual problem solving when team members rely on each other.

Most managers believe that close-knit informal groups have only desirable effects on an organization.

A manager is an individual whose influence in a team grows over time and usually reflects a unique ability to help the team reach its goals.

A friendship group evolves informally to meet its members' personal security,esteem,and belonging needs.

Fault lines refer to the process by which teams form larger groups based on one or more attributes.

In a typical organization,friendship groups would be considered informal groups,while task groups would be considered formal groups.

Informal groups are created by managers to accomplish certain organizational goals.

The storming stage of team development refers to group members sharing information,accepting different options and attempting to make decisions that may require compromise.

Desktop videoconferencing systems (DVCSs)are useful to virtual teams because they allow more complex communication among team members.