Exam 6: Project Team Building,Conflict,and Negotiation

"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:

What is conflict and what three forms does it take?

Cross-functional cooperation directly affects both:

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:

Project management people skills include:

What are three consequences of poorly designed or unclear goals?

The two sets of factors that contribute to cross-functional cooperation influence:

When negotiating,it is important to:

The department chair had allotted plenty of time for all department (and project)members to prepare sections of their five-year program review.Administration demanded no less than 50 pages be devoted to a thorough and thoughtful review of activities and goals.What happened to the report was anybody's guess; no one had actually seen one or ever heard back from administration once they had submitted it.Most of the project team members thought the report was immediately sent to the steam tunnels running underneath the campus or perhaps it would sit collecting dust as part of a make-work program to justify an assistant VP's job.No wonder that team meetings were poorly attended and that all the sections of the report were filled with trite phrases and wide margins.This team suffers from:

What are psychosocial outcomes as contained in the cross-functional cooperation model?

Most project resources are negotiated with:

The key to creating the energy and spirit that drives effective project efforts is:

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 un-collegial and this was a source of:

Conflict associated with disagreement in project scope,priorities,or objectives is:

What is negotiation? Why is it important in project management?

Which two steps of project team building are out of sequence?

The role of the team leader is to create structure and set the tone for future cooperation and positive team attitudes in the:

In general,a superordinate goal is a replacement goal for the goals of all functional groups involved in the project.

Accessibility is the perception of the project team members that they are physically located in such a way that it is easy for them to interact.

Choose an example project from the current or very recent business literature.Sketch a graphical version of Gersick's model of punctuated equilibrium and label the curve and both axes.