Exam 8: Team Leadership and Self-Managed Teams

Recall any experience you have had or currently have,working with individuals from different disciplines or technical specialties outside of yours.How did you get along with these individuals? Describe the positives and negatives of your experience.

Discuss the benefits and limitations of working in teams.

In a meeting,it is a leader's responsibility to shut up the talkers.

Small teams are generally more effective than larger teams.

Identify a team you were or are a part of and describe the advantages that you derived from being a member of the team.

A self-managed team ____ 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.

Encouraging interteam rivalries is more likely to reduce than increase creativity.

Shirking of individual responsibility is also known as:

Given the cross-cultural nature of virtual teams,one of the responsibilities of global virtual team leaders includes:

The ____ during meetings may be preoccupied with other issues,not pay attention or participate in the group meeting,or feel superior and wonder why the group is spending so much time on the obvious.

The most effective leadership style in a team tends to be very hierarchical in its setup.

If you have been part of an SMT,describe the benefits that you derived from being part of the team.Be specific,matching your description to the list in Exhibit 8.4.

Effective teams have strong support from top management.

Many of the drawbacks associated with SMTs stem from:

A usually very active team member,Frank seems very absent-minded today and not very engaged in the discussion.The other members are doing all the discussing and volunteering for assignments. Today,Frank can be described as which of the following group member problem types?  

All of the following are SMT facilitator team-building activities EXCEPT:

Team effectiveness has three components: task performance,group potency,and individual satisfaction.

Which of the following is NOT a benefit of self-managed teams?

My compensation is based primarily on my department's performance and there is shared responsibility. This is a characteristic of which of the following?  Explain your 

Groupthink happens when the team values getting along so much that dissenting views are suppressed in favor of consensus.