Exam 10: Understanding Work Teams

You need to hire an analyst for an important project team. It is essential that the new employee work well on the already established team in order to meet the project's challenging deadlines. The most talented candidate doesn't have any team experience and when asked in the interview about his team experience he replied, "I prefer to work alone. I'm much more efficient alone." What should you do?

Diversity is an asset for teams where tasks ________.

When teams have too many members, cohesiveness and mutual accountability decline.

Compared to traditional departments, teams tend to be less flexible and less responsive to changing events.

Not only is a climate of trust important within a team but so is ________.

In the case of a work team, individual efforts result in a level of performance greater than the sum of those individual inputs.

Which of following statements is true regarding a reward system that attempts to create good team players?

A team that has a good plan, but is also willing to adjust their master plan and adapt when conditions call for it demonstrates high ________, an important variable in successful team processes.

Members of successful teams put a tremendous amount of time and effort into discussing, shaping, and agreeing on ________, which then provides direction and guidance under any and all conditions.

Amohalko Consulting is an independent consulting firm specializing in offering financial advice to companies in need. Amohalko operates in an independent contractor fashion, providing name recognition to consultants as well as basic needs such as office space and computers but nothing much past that. Amohalko Consulting has been losing business over the last three quarters and the average stay of a consultant is less than one year. Most likely, Amohalko Consulting is suffering from which problem?

According to the concept of organizational demography, if team members have dissimilar experiences, it will lead to ________.

Discuss the difference between a work group and a work team.

Teams composed of highly agreeable people are more creative and innovative.

Leadership is especially important in ________, in which different teams coordinate their efforts to produce a desired outcome.

During an interview with one team member, you learn that several members of the team have had conflicts regarding the content of a task to which the team was recently assigned. Are these conflicts likely to be reducing the group's productivity?

Teams that switch from a competitive to a cooperative system tend to immediately start making better-quality decisions.

Which of the following is a key contextual factor influencing team effectiveness?

Which type of conflict is almost always dysfunctional?

Evidence shows that teams that switch from a competitive to a cooperative system do not immediately ________.

Generally speaking, the most effective teams have ________ members.