Exam 10: Subgroups and Multi-Teams

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.

What is a common operational characteristic of probing teams?

A situational example of a multi-team system is:

________ teams concentrate on their internal processes and simply inform others what they are doing.They often have little outside contact,instead this type of team makes decision about how to serve its customers from within and lets others outside the team know what they are doing after they have already made decisions.

According to the "mere contact" strategy; based on the principle that greater contact among members of different groups increases cooperation between members; for contact to be effective and reduce prejudices,all of the following need to be in place EXCEPT:

There are four types of integration structures for integrating multiple teams: management teams,representative integrating teams,individual integrating roles,and improvement teams.Which of these team structures forges strategy and direction for multiple teams in a business unit and makes the strategic resource trade-offs among teams?

________ occurs when a team tends to empathize less with out-group members versus their in-group members and to feel pleasure when seeing out-group members dealing with painful situations.

In a diverse team,a "faultline" refers to cases in which:

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

Members of teams that highly identify with their group,but are part of disadvantaged groups,want to talk about commonalities between groups,whereas highly identified members of advantaged groups generally prefer to talk about power.

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of organizational founding teams?

A team that has a large representational gap has:

The negative relationship between group faultlines and performance can be reversed or minimized when groups in the organization are aligned with respect to their:

In regard to post-merger behavior,people who belong to high-status premerger groups are ________ to identify with the new group,and ________ to show bias against their post-merger group.

Most people underestimate their status in groups and team members who seek to enhance their status within the group are rewarded because they bring energy to the group's process and as a consequence,are well-liked by the group.

Consider a situation in which you are a member of a team that has little organizational support within your company.Your team competes with two other groups in your organization,a disadvantaged group (little support or resources)and an advantaged groups (lots of support and resources).The performance of the disadvantaged team changes over time,so that it becomes equal to your team's performance.Faced with this situation,the social comparison theory predicts your team will:

The process of exchange,termed "perspective taking," is one in which an in-group member puts themselves in an out-group member's place.The effects of perspective taking are not always positive on in-group member's views of out-group members and depend on the extent to which a person identifies with their in-group.Therefore,which of the following scenarios would be most likely to lead in-group members to respond more negatively toward out-group members?

People who don't feel respected by their team are ________.Conversely,respected members of organizational groups that have low status and prestige are the most likely to ________.

US Sen.Thad Cochran of Mississippi and Sen.Lindsey Graham of South Carolina serve on several subcommittees together - most notably the subcommittees on Defense and on Homeland Security.Both senators are members of the Republican Party and also share membership on the larger umbrella committee that oversees the budget distributions for other subcommittees within the Senate.The term that describes the type of team integration described in Sen.Cochran's and Sen.Graham's example is best termed:

Competition for scarce,desired resources can lead to egocentric perceptions of fairness.For example,when the law firm Weil Gotshal made dramatic staff cuts,partners made pitches behind the backs of colleagues with ties to a client and formed ________ within the firm to garner clients,resources,work,and power.