Exam 10: Networking, Social Capital, and Integrating Across Teams

The leader centrality-performance hypothesis focuses on the network structure of the team leader. Which statement best summarizes the key idea of the hypothesis?

Social capital is distinct from human capital. Social capital is best described as the:

Teams that are underbounded have __________; in contrast, teams that are overbounded have __________.

In regard to common roles in workgroups, the person who provides meanings about what the team is doing, how successful it is to people outside of the team, and the interpretation of what the team is perceived to be doing is best termed an):

Whether a deliberate choice by a leader, or ostracized by the organization, __________ are sequestered from the rest of the company, often for security or intellectual reasons.

X-teams are highly externally oriented. The typical cycle of an x-team involves which order of these processes?

Four interplaying characteristics determine the extent to which negative relationships hurt team and organizational effectiveness. According to Labianca and Brass's model, which of the following is NOT one of those characteristics?

Regarding Joshi's model of external team networking Exhibit 10-8), which of the following is NOT one of the model's key implications for teams?

What is a common operational characteristic of marketing teams?

A situational example of a multi-team system is:

The differential performance of women in business is often caused by their disadvantaged social position most frequently due to:

One disadvantage of a clique network is/are __________; one disadvantage of a boundary-spanning network is/are __________.

Menon and Pfeffer offer two explanations for outsider bias in knowledge valuation. The first involves organizational incentives that reward managers when they learn from outsiders; the second best explanation is:

Regarding Exhibit 10-5 and team effectiveness and organization-focused behavior, what type of boundary-management behavior is best categorized under the skill of "relating"?

One advantage of a clique network is __________; one advantage of a boundary-spanning network is __________.

Managers and team members can increase their social capital by doing all of the following EXCEPT:

As a link between different subgroups, Berta is a boundary spanner between different functional units. Berta is alone at the critical junction between these organizational networks, and serves an important role as an) __________.

People in teams bond along three specific types of ties: friendship, trust, and advice. Trust-ties involve __________; advice-ties involve __________.

A clique network is __________; a boundary-spanning network is __________.

Which of the following is TRUE regarding a team's efforts to team build social capital?