Exam 10: Subgroups and Multi-Teams

When people believe that they provide less value to the group,they often prefer a lower status rank.

Exhibit 10-2 in the text illustrates the progressively more inclusive ways a person can identify himself or herself within an organizational structure.At a basic level,a person might see himself or herself as an individual,but at a wider view,a person might see himself or herself as a member of a unit or a larger organizational area.Group members identify and categorize themselves in this same fashion; categorizing themselves and others in terms of in-groups and out-groups.The more narrowly a group defines itself,the more the group's behavior becomes:

People typically prefer groups composed of 10-12 members and rarely choose to team with groups of less than two to three members.

In organizations,high-status groups are perceived to possess agency; whereas low-status groups are perceived to lack agentic characteristics.To make up for their lack of status,which of the following actions are low-status,but highly respected groups likely to do?

Subgroups are teams within teams.A subgroup in a team like a clique,faction or social subgroup sharing some of the same value-based or social-group based identities is best termed:

Team members tend to forgive serious transgression/mistakes by in-group leaders but not by other fellow team members or by the leaders of out-groups.

People consider in-groups to be people who are like themselves or who belong to the same groups; out-groups are people who are not in their group or who are members of competitor groups.The implications of in-group and out-group categorizations are all of the following behaviors EXCEPT:

When groups use apology in the face of intergroup conflict,which is the least likely result of that apology?

________ occurs when people who are not directly harmed by a rival group seek retribution against members of that out-group,who were not the original perpetrators of the initial attack on the in-group.

At a car maker,one engineer who works on the layout of the dashboard in their newest SUV regularly sits in on the weekly meetings of the engine design team to share and gather information for his team.In this situation,the engineer is acting as a ________ for his team.

Prototypical members of groups feel secure about their membership in the group,whereas peripheral representative have a less certain position.Because peripheral representatives are uncertain,they are more likely to do all of the following EXCEPT:

The typical cycle of an x-team involves which order of these processes?

People consider two types of cues when assessing status and forming their expectations of team members; real status and pseudostatus.An example of real status is ________; an example of pseudostatus is ________.

________ are highly externally oriented; their members forge dense networks across the organization,enable rapid execution of ideas,and may sometimes find they have to cross competitive or organizational borders to achieve a shared goal.