Exam 15: Effective Groups and Teams

When the CEO of an organization re-designs the organizational chart to define different reporting relationships among the organization's managers, she is essentially creating _____.

Environment conscious members of an organization have taken up an initiative to reduce the number of styrofoam cups and paper used by the company. They organize meetings by themselves on weekly basis where they discuss methods of making their company more eco-friendly. The members, in this case, constitute a(n) _____.

A group of managers who are responsible for designing the long-range strategic plan for an organization are collectively known as:

The idea creation team for Universal-Smile Cards includes an artist whose job is to create and draw the illustrations that will accompany new cards. The artist's job of creating and drawing illustrations for her development team is called _____.

Performance gains that result when individuals and departments coordinate their actions is called synergy.

A team whose members have the expertise and experience needed to develop new products is called a research and development team.

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

Task forces that are relatively permanent are referred to as:

Deviance signals that a group is not controlling one of its member's behaviors.

To further promote innovation among team members, the manager should avoid:

Performance gains that result when individuals and departments coordinate their actions is called _____.

Teams that are empowered and have the autonomy to complete an identifiable piece of work are known as self-managed teams.

List the determinants of group cohesiveness and explain the role of a manager in maintaining an optimum level of group cohesiveness for each factor.

Which of the following statements is true of a command group?

Which of the following statements is true with respect to groups and teams?

The manager of a sales group has presented the weekly target on the number of sales her group must achieve. For this particular target to be achieved, she decides to reward the members of her group solely based on the number of sales each member makes. The type of task dependency that will exist in this case is _____.

Discuss the advantages of using teams for innovation. What is the role of managers in promoting innovation?

A member of a task force does not work as much as the others in the team as he is confident that the others will account for his slacking. This group member is exhibiting _____.

When a group's members are reciprocally interdependent, managers are advised to reward group members on the basis of group performance.

To promote innovation, the manager should closely direct or supervise the activities of the team members.