Exam 7: The Nature of Teams

The member satisfaction criterion of group effectiveness means that members are sufficiently satisfied to continue working well together on an ongoing basis and/or to look forward to working together again in the future.

__________ occurs when group members actively work together in ways such that all their respective skills are well utilized to achieve a common purpose.

What is a team? Briefly describe the three types of teams in organizations.

Which type of teams have members who are very similar to one another?

__________ are small teams empowered to make the decisions needed to manage themselves on a day-to-day basis.

An) __________ is a group of people brought together to use their complementary skill to achieve a common purpose for which they are collectively accountable.

__________ are established to study specific problems and recommend solutions to them.

Which of the following statements regarding the norming state of team development is false?

Teams that run things lead organizations and their component parts.

The functional silos problem occurs when members of functional units focus on external issues and do not focus to a sufficient degree on their own areas of responsibility.

The performance advantages of teams over individuals are most evident in three situations: 1) when there is no clear "expert" for a particular task, 2) when the problems are complex and require a division of labor, and 3) when a riskier decision need be made.

Identify the five stages of team development and explain what happens at each stage.

__________ are functional groups and work units that perform ongoing tasks, such as marketing or manufacturing.

Members of which type of teams must have good working relationships with one another, solid operating systems, and the external support needed to achieve performance effectiveness over a sustained period of time?

The forming stage of the team development process is sometimes called "initial integration."

In the norming stage of team development, the group really begins to come together as a coordinated unit.

Informal teams have the potential to speed up the workflow by enabling people to assist each other in ways that formal lines of authority fail to provide.

__________ teams have members who vary in age, gender, race, ethnicity, experience, and culture.

________ occurs when people work less hard in teams than they would individually.

The formal structures and their embedded social relationships that are active in an organization are identified by social network analysis.