Exam 13: Group Dynamics and Teamwork

The proper order of the six stages of the group development process is orientation, conflict and challenge, cohesion, delusion, disillusion, and acceptance.

Social capital involves strong relationships, goodwill, trust and cooperation.

____ has been called the "outside-looking-in view" of groups.

How would you respond to the following statement? Managers should attempt to eliminate organizational politics.

Organizational politics have both negative and positive aspects.

Researchers found that reorganization changes prompted less political activity than any other type of change.

In the group development process, ____ is the sixth and final stage.

In mature groups, the status of minority opinions is

____ were not found by researchers to be associated with increased political activity.

The structure of a formal group tends to be less rational than informal groups.

Managers need to consider both ____ and ____ behavior when discussing roles.

Destructive competition does not include sabotaging the work of a competitor.

By definition, a group is any gathering of people.

Managers must keep their promises if they want to be trusted.

A statistical analysis of 133 Asch conformity studies across 17 countries concluded that blind conformity is a greater problem in collectivist cultures such as Japan.

If Joan socializes with her co-workers, she is a member of both a formal and informal group.

According to the group development model, problems usually end for groups once they achieve cohesiveness.

In the workplace, how do people typically become members of formal task groups?

According to the six ways to build trust, managers can show respect by delegating important duties.

Cross-functional teams have which of these as an advantage over traditional functional departments?