Exam 8: Team Leadership and Self-Managed Teams

Leadership: Decision Making.You are being promoted from a supervisory job to a middle-management position in two weeks.You have been given the authority to hire your replacement from your department before moving on.You have two fairly equal candidates who want to be promoted to management. 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:

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

The three parts of a meeting are determining participants,identifying objectives,and covering agenda items.

During meetings,the team leader should focus on all of the following EXCEPT:

Social loafing in a team is likely to occur when each team member's effort is recognized and assessed.

A self-managed team manager or leader 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.

All of the following are disadvantages of team-centered decision-making EXCEPT:

Describe how a leader can avoid conducting nonproductive meetings.

Briefly discuss some of the potential benefits and drawbacks of using self-managed teams.

It is recommended that leaders play the role of ____ at meetings.

Outline the three parts of conducting effective meetings.

The team members are not taking our new self-directed status seriously,because they believe SMTs are just the latest fad and those in charge will drop it for the next hot topic. Identify which guideline is implied by this statement.

Social loafing is likely to result when:

It is more likely the case that in a group,the typical group member mentality is "what's in it for me."

Recall a team decision that you were a part of,and describe the team leader's role during the process leading up to the final decision.Would you characterize the leader's role as belonging to the leader-centered or team-centered approach to decision making?

Teams where individuals in the teams have clearly defined roles and responsibilities are more likely to assign blame when things go wrong.

Describe how organizational culture can influence team creativity.

One of the guidelines for making self-managed teams more effective include:

Recall a team you have worked with that you would characterize as effective. Which of the characteristics discussed and listed in Exhibit 8.1 did you team possess?

Some performance outcomes that have been used to evaluate team effectiveness are innovation,efficiency,quality,and employee satisfaction.