Exam 8: Self-Managed Teams and Team Leadership

In your group, Dwayne enjoys challenging members' ideas. He likes getting his own way. When a group member does not agree with Dwayne, he makes wise comments about the member's past mistakes. Which of the following group member problem types does Dwayne represent?

Instructions for the following question(s) For the Variables line, write the numbers 1 to 4. To the right of the four numbers, write the four variables. To the left of the four numbers, write the answers to each variable from the Leadership Decision Making model that represents the style to use based on the variable. Fill in the Leadership Style and Action Taken lines with the appropriate answers. Variables: Leadership Style: Action Taken: -Leadership: Decision Making. As the supervisor, you have to make a decision on disciplinary action. An employee has broken a rule again, after being told not to do so. The employee did not have a good reason for breaking the rule the first time, but you took no action then.

Shirking of individual responsibility is also known as:

A manager is conducting a department meeting with his followers. In this example, the manager and his followers qualify as what type of team?

A self-managed team facilitator is an advocate of the self-managed team concept whose responsibility is to help the team obtain necessary resources, gain political support from top management and other stakeholders of the organization, and defend it from enemy attacks.

Team cohesion is the extent to which team members bond together and remain committed to achieving team goals.

All of the following are problem members you may have in a group that can cause the group during a meeting to be less efficient than possible EXCEPT:

Encouraging interteam rivalries discourages creativity.

Describe how team member characteristics impact self-managed team effectiveness.

Paul is on a team in which the other members are from production, marketing, and R&D, respectively. Which of the following best describes what kind of team Paul is on?

Shirking of individual responsibility, also known as social loafing, is a problem frequently noted in teams.

Self-managed teams are usually cross-functional in membership makeup.

Think of a work situation in which you were required to do a lot of creative thinking, or in which your job required doing a lot of very creative things. In what ways did the organization and your immediate supervisor or leader facilitate or hinder your effectiveness? Use the discussion of top management and the team leader's roles in facilitating creativity as your guide.

Team cohesion is increased when

Identify and describe any team you have been a member of, or know about otherwise, that has a strong norm of teamwork that all members buy into. What role did the team leader play in making this possible?

Team ____ is the creation of a valuable, useful, and novel product, service, idea, procedure, or process carried out via discovery rather than a predetermined step-by-step procedure, by individuals working together in a complex social system.

An advantage of teamwork is that members can help each other and avoid major errors.

Rick and Ellen have been disagreeing a lot during recent team meetings; however, no one on the team has stepped up to help them overcome their differences. Which of the following guidelines for improving SMT effectiveness is missing in this situation?

Team norms are standards of behavior dictated by the organization.

Over 80 percent of all organizations use some form of teams.