Exam 6: Project Team Building, Conflict, and Negotiation

The husband in the marriage project meekly apologized and hid in the garage while the other project team member rampaged through the house.The husband holds the:

With a failure to secure personnel releases from functional managers,a project manager should:

The BEST source of troubleshooting for problems is the:

You have been tapped as project manager for your dream project and find yourself initially rebuffed by functional managers that are reluctant to release members of your "dream team" to help you work on the project.What are three alternatives you might choose from and which is most attractive?

An overall goal or purpose that is important to all functional groups involved,but whose attainment requires the resources and efforts of more than one group,is a(n):

Trust based on a person's competence would be summarized by this team member's affectionate statement towards another team member:

The globalization committee was halfway through their first meeting before the team leader realized that his boss had granted him authority that wasn't going to be agreed to by the functional managers of his team.After the meeting,his team members reported back to their units and the team leader's phone began to ring.The source of the conflict he is about to experience is:

Explain Gersick's model of punctuated equilibrium.

What are the characteristics of effective project teams?

Even though he was the facilities director with the county,Keith loosened his tie and waded into the raw,untreated sewage with the rest of the project team.As they stood there together in the quagmire of mud and feces,the team members found Keith less intimidating and his:

What are the stages in group development and what project management behaviors are exhibited in each stage?

Which of these questions is important to consider as you enter a negotiation?

Project managers are best able to promote a sense of enthusiasm within the project team when they create an environment that is challenging,supportive,and personally rewarding.

Team members get to know each other in the:

Robert didn't mince words.If a person's ideas were ill-considered,he was likely to tell them that their ideas were bad.If there was a disagreement,he plainly stated that the person with the opposing viewpoint was wrong.To some,his manner was abrasive and uncollegial and this was a source of:

An excellent starting point in negotiations is to:

It appeared that everyone on the project team was finally on board;Jim would bring the doughnuts to all team meetings and Jenny would make the coffee.Fully caffeinated and on a sugar high,the team was coming together and fully committed to the project development process.The team was now planted firmly in the:

"Loose Cannon" Buchanan said and did whatever he wanted,which was usually at odds with the behavior of the rest of the business faculty.An appropriate mechanism for bringing him into alignment with the rest of the team is:

The Liberal Arts faculty failed to see the reason that every professor on campus would not make exactly the same amount of money,arguing that every person is of equal value.The business faculty relied on the laws of supply and demand and market forces to guide their wages and couldn't fathom why their counterparts could be such dunderheads.The source of conflict between these two groups is:

Conflict is not a state,but a: