Exam 12: Developing and Leading Teams: Part A

Team empowerment is the degree to which members perceive the group as having potency,meaningfulness,power,and friendship.

Dealing with conflict openly and communicating freely among team members are core characteristics of effective teams.

In a team of 13-16 members,the demands on a leader tend to be higher than with a small team.

Teams may go through a basic,five-stage developmental sequence: forming,storming,norming,performing,and adjourning.

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

When one or more individuals in the group decide to withhold effort in the belief that others are planning to withhold effort,the result is called the bad apple effect.

In Learning From Experience: Boeing's Development of Teams and Their Leaders,Boeing puts high value on individual work rather than teamwork

A single group in an organization may serve both friendship and task purposes.

The sucker effect refers to negative team or group members who withhold effort,express negative feelings and attitudes,and violate important team norms and behaviors.

A leader who wanted to overcome time and place limitations on teamwork should consider using cross-functional teams.

Virtual teams primarily work across three dimensions: distance (any place),time (any time),and increasingly across organizational boundaries (members from two or more organizations).

Managing conflict is most crucial to team development during the forming stage.

The characteristics of groupthink include illusion of invulnerability,direct pressure,self-censorship,illusion of unanimity.

According to the Teams Competency: Empowered Teams at W.L.Gore & Associates,each new associate is designated to work at a specific job.

Groupthink is the strength of the members' desire to remain in a team and their commitment to it.

The two basic types of conformity are compliance conformity and personal acceptance conformity.

Desktop videoconferencing systems (DVCSs)are useful to virtual teams because they allow for communication and data sharing when team members are working at different times.

In Learning From Experience: Boeing's Development of Teams and Their Leaders,the first officer in the presented scenario warned that the plane was flying too high and too fast,but the captain brushed him off.

Among the influences on team effectiveness,context may include technology,physical working conditions,management practices,and organizational rewards and punishments.