Exam 9: Understanding Groups and Managing Work Teams

Formal groups ________.

A certain amount of which of the following is usually required for effective teams?

An effective team leader is often more of a coach than a manager.

Status incongruence can be upsetting to employees because it sends a signal that organisational accomplishments ________.

Specific goals are a ________ factor that contributes to overall team effectiveness.

A major drawback of using global teams is ________.

Which of the following statements about team skills is CORRECT?

The primary reason for why social loafing occurs is that output contributions from ________ easily be measured.

High cohesiveness combined with a very weak alignment between group goals and organisational goals typically results in this.

This kind of team brings individuals together from different work disciplines with different knowledge and skills.

High levels of conflict ________.

Large groups appear to perform better when the goal of the group is to ________.

Autonomy is a ________ factor that contributes to team effectiveness.

The skills of a work team can vary randomly.

Disagreeable team members rarely decrease team performance.

The official forming stage of the group development process wasn't complete until group members ________.

When the management group was determining standards and establishing how they would make decisions,they were in the ________ stage of group development.

Solomon Asch carried out pioneering studies in understanding ________.

Team efficacy is a measure of how ________ a team is.

In a short essay,compare work groups and work teams.