Exam 11: Effective Team Management

The strategic planning committee at Comfort Fabric Clothing Company,New York,consists of managers from engineering,R&D,production,marketing,and finance.This is an example of a(n):

Which of the following is a major problem that self-managed work teams can encounter?

The tendency of group members to exert less effort when they work in groups than they would exert if they were acting alone is known as:

Social loafing may occur when people sometimes think their efforts are unnecessary or unimportant when they work in a group.

Explain what is meant by a task force and a virtual team.

Sam is a student in Dr.Arthur's Principles of Management course,in which team projects are assigned.In addition to his full-time course load,Sam also works 30 hours a week so that he does not have to borrow money for tuition,books,and living expenses.Sam likes courses with group projects because he knows he can team up with good students who will work hard on the projects.He will undoubtedly miss some of his group's out-of-class meetings.What can Dr.Arthur do to help groups deal with students in Sam's situation?

What does top management refer to? Write a note on the importance of top management.

In an attempt to promote innovation in a work group,the supervisor should do all of the following EXCEPT:

Discuss how groups and teams relate to responsiveness to customers.

The members of a particular group are getting to know one another and attempting to reach an understanding of how each of them should act within the group.This stage of group development is known as:

A group does not need a certain level of deviance to ensure that dysfunctional norms are replaced with functional ones.

The members of a task force have disagreements because some members do not want to do what some of the other members want them to do.This stage of group development is known as:

When group cohesiveness is low,managers can often increase it by encouraging groups to develop their own identities and engage in healthy competition.

Financial rewards should not be used to motivate members of teams.

Managers can better encourage innovation by assigning work to individuals working alone rather than teams.

Groupthink is when members strive to agree instead of trying to make an accurate assessment of the situation.

Division of labor is splitting the work to be performed into particular tasks and assigning tasks to individual workers.

The set of behaviors and tasks that a member of the group is expected to perform because he/she is a member of the group is known as:

The degree to which members of a group are attracted to the group is called group cohesiveness.

Self-managed work teams can improve the effectiveness and the efficiency of the organization.Discuss the positive outcomes that can occur with these types of teams.