Exam 11: The Project Team

The project team can initiate social events to celebrate project events, such as reaching a critical milestone.

It is appropriate for team members to tell jokes, ridicule, or make fun of a diversity characteristic of a team member or a particular group.

In brainstorming, the quality of ideas generated is more important than the quantity of the ideas.

The evaluation scorecards are used as the sole mechanism for determining the best solution; they are used as input to the decision-making process.

A training session on diversity should raise awareness, create understanding, and help diminish misunderstanding and conflict.

Project team members should stereotype or make assumptions about a team member's behavior or performance based on their diversity.

The ____ approach emphasizes the search for areas of agreement within the conflict and minimizes the value of addressing differences.

In the ____ stage of team development, the level of work performance is high.

The ___________ approach emphasizes the search for areas of agreement within the conflict and minimizes the value of addressing differences and, even though this approach may make a conflict situation livable, it does not resolve the issue.

In the ____ stage of team development, the project manager minimizes directiveness and takes on a more supportive role.

A potential conflict on projects is Cost where conflict often arises over

In the ____ phase of team development, relationships have become settled.

It is important that a customer is informed of a potential problem in timely manner that is neither unnecessarily alarming, nor misleading.

In many projects, people who have never worked together are assigned to the same project team.

Diversity is similarities among people.

The brainstorming technique is very useful in helping the project team to not jump to the first solution.

Primarily, the ____ must promote and foster a respectful and supportive work environment that removes barriers to valuing diversity, values differences, and encourages participation by all team members.

The ____ agenda contains the Closing comments to reinforce the expectations and the roles and allow team members to ask questions, make comments, and get to know each other.

In larger organizations, the project manager may have to

A policy on ethical behavior includes topics on expectations, process for reporting misconduct, and consequences of engaging in unethical practices.