Exam 10: Leading Teams

One of the primary advantages of a virtual team is the ability to:

is based on a win-win assumption, in that all parties want to come up with a creative solution that can benefit both sides of the conflict.

To be successful, virtual team leaders should:

People who adopt a socioemotional role:

are made up of a supervisor and subordinates in the formal chain of command.

During the stage of team development, task performance is no longer a top priority and leaders frequently focus on team members' social and emotional needs.

Effective leaders should use the same conflict resolution style in every situation.

Describe the characteristics of a virtual team.

When quick decisive action is vital on important issues, the style of handling conflict in a team is appropriate.

is a form of adversarial negotiation in which conflicting parties compete to win the most resources and give up as little as possible.

People who play a task-specialist role often:

During the forming stage of team development, the leader's challenge is to facilitate interaction among team members.

facilitate information sharing across functional boundaries and develop new ideas and solutions for existing organizational problems.

Daryl is a research analyst at Highend Inc.She works independently, without the need for a supervisor.When her team is offered a project, she sits along with her team members to plan and organize the work.Each team member takes turns to undertake a different role.This helps them gain experience in every aspect of their work.Each team member is held accountable for his or her work and every person works toward meeting the agreed deadline.In the given scenario, which of the following types of teams has been described?

A(n) is a unit of two or more people who interact and coordinate their work to accomplish a shared goal or purpose for which they are committed and hold themselves mutually accountable.

A global team:

is the extent to which members are attracted to the team and motivated to remain in it.

Virtual teams meet and conduct their interactions face-to-face in the same physical space.

An advantage of virtual teams is that organizations can save employees time and cut travel expenses when people meet in virtual rather than physical space.

Small teams perform better than large ones because: