Exam 9: Foundations of Group Behavior

________ refers to the degree to which members are attracted to each other and motivated to stay in the group.

Discuss the impact of brainstorming on the possibility of groupthink.

Individual decisions are more time consuming than group decisions.

Bonnie Patterson is a manager for seven years at Wayne and Watson, a legal consultancy firm. A good part of her work day involves holding meetings and she likes to get work on a time-bound schedule. For this reason, members of her team receive the agenda at the beginning of the meeting, followed by some time to contemplate over the issue at hand individually. Subsequently, the team members present their ideas one after the another, the group discusses them together, and lastly, a ranking is done to choose the most favored idea. This represents the ________ approach of group decision making.

When the group energy is focused on the task at hand and the group is fully functional, it is said to be in the stage of ________.

________ refers to the adjustment of one's behavior to align with the norms of the group.

________ is defined as the extent to which members of a group are similar to, or different from, one another.

A group decision-making method in which individual members meet face-to-face to pool their judgments in a systematic but independent fashion is the ________ technique.

When ________, the result is role conflict.

Michael is devout and very active in his church. He is also a very dedicated employee. His manager offers him a promotion but the new role will require him to work Sundays. Michael would like the promotion, but realizes that it would force him to miss some church activities. In this situation, Michael is most likely to experience ________.

Which of the following statements is true with regard to the punctuated-equilibrium model of group development?

Group decisions are generally less accurate than the judgments of the most accurate individual in the group.

When ________ is of importance in decision making, group decisions are preferred to individual decisions.

The first phase of group development for temporary groups involves ________.

ICE is a non-profit organization that runs awareness campaigns and research programs that provide data to initiate the process of legislative changes on various aspects of the environment like forest cover, nuclear fuel, endangered species and others. The ICE operates through networks of grass-root level researchers who are grouped into flexible project teams whose roles and duties change with each new project. The ICE believes its employees to be like family and an informal environment pervades its functioning without any compromises being made in the efficiency. Recently, the project manager of the rainwater harvesting pilot project in the suburbs has been informed of two delays in the project. When the third extension request came to him, he looked into the matter by speaking individually with the five team members. Which of the following complaints by the team members, if true, would indicate the presence of social loafing in the team?

Which of the following is a contributing factor with regard to social loafing?

Important groups to which individuals belong or hope to belong are called nominal groups.

Describe the punctuated-equilibrium model.

In discussing a given set of alternatives and arriving at a solution, group members tend to exaggerate the initial positions they hold. This phenomenon is called ________.

Which of the following is an example of performance norms?