Project Management and IT Chapter: 9

According to McClelland's acquired-needs theory, people with a high need for _____ desire harmonious relationships with other people and need to feel accepted by others.

A. Affiliation

_____ is best known for distinguishing between motivational factors and hygiene factors when considering motivation in work settings.

A. Frederick Herzberg

In the Tuckman model, _____ occurs when the emphasis is on reaching the team goals, rather than working on team process.

A. Performing

According to Herzberg, which of the following is a motivational factor?

A. Recognition

_____ refers to the amount of individual resources an existing schedule requires during specific time periods.

A. Resource Loading

According to Thamhain and Wilemon, _____ is the legitimate hierarchical right to issue orders.

A. authority

The acquiring of the project team is a subprocess associated with the _____ process of project human resource management.

A. executing

_____ a highly respected psychologist, rejected the dehumanizing negativism of psychology and proposed the hierarchy of needs theory.

B. Abraham Maslow

According to McClelland's acquired-needs theory, people who need personal _____ want to direct others and can be seen as bossy.

C. Power

_____ involves using incentives to induce people to do things.

C. Reward Power

The _____ presents subjects with a series of ambiguous pictures and asks them to develop a spontaneous story for each picture, assuming they will project their own needs into the story.

C. TAT

The main outputs of the _____ process are team performance assessments and enterprise environmental factors updates.

C. developing the project team

At the bottom of Maslow's structure are _____ needs.

C. physiological

According to Lencioni, which of the following qualities is present in organizations that succeed?

D. Teamwork

People with a high need for _____ seek to excel and tend to avoid both low-risk and high-risk situations to improve their chances for achieving something worthwhile.

D. achievement

A RAM is used only to assign detailed work activities.

False

A responsibility assignment matrix (RAM) is a matrix that maps the work of the project as described in the OBS to the people responsible for performing the work as described in the WBS.

False

According to Covey, project managers must use a win/lose approach in making

False

Extrinsic motivation causes people to participate in an activity for their own enjoyment.

False

In the Social Styles Profile team building activity, drivers are reactive and people-oriented.

False

Legitimate power involves using personal knowledge and expertise to get people to change their behavior.

False

Managers who believe in Theory Y assume that workers dislike and avoid work if possible, so managers must use coercion, threats, and various control schemes to get workers to make adequate efforts to meet objectives.

False

Maslow suggests that each level of the hierarchy of needs is not necessarily a prerequisite for the levels above.

False

Microsoft Project 2010 does not lend itself to project human resource management.

False

The forcing mode is one in which the project manager deemphasizes or avoids areas of differences and emphasizes areas of agreement.

False

A staffing management plan describes when and how people will be added to and taken off the project team.

True

In the Tuckman model, storming occurs when team members have different opinions for how the team should operate.

True

Maslow's hierarchy of needs states that people's behaviors are guided or motivated by a sequence of needs.

True

Thamhain and Wilemon found that when project managers used work challenge and expertise to influence people, projects were more likely to succeed.

True

The first dimension of psychological type in the MBTI signifies whether people draw their energy from other people (extroverts) or from inside themselves (introverts).

True

_____ involves using punishment, threats, or other negative approaches to get people to do things they do not want to do.

B. Coercive power

The bottom four needs in Maslow's structure are referred to as _____ needs.

B. Deficiency

_____ involves building individual and group skills to enhance project performance.

B. Developing the project team

The highest level of needs in Maslow's structure is referred to as a _____ need.

B. Growth

_____ is a technique for resolving resource conflicts by delaying tasks.

B. Resource leveling

____ is at the top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

B. Self-actualization

Managers who follow _____ assume that the average worker wants to be directed and prefers to avoid responsibility.

B. Theory X

A(n) _____ is a column chart that shows the number of resources assigned to a project over time.

B. resource histogram

Psychologist David Merril describes _____ as reactive and task-oriented.

C. "Analyticals"

_____ involves assigning the needed personnel to work on the project.

C. Acquiring the project team

The first step in the framework for defining and assigning work is _____.

C. Finalizing the Project Requirements

According to Blake and Mouton, project managers who use the _____ method use a give-and take-approach to resolving conflicts.

D. Compromise

_____ is best known for developing Theory X and Theory Y.

D. Dauglas Mcgregor

_____ involves tracking team member performance, motivating team members, providing timely feedback, resolving issues and conflicts, and coordinating changes to help enhance project performance.

D. Managing the project team

____ refers to matching certain behaviors of the other person.

D. Mirroring

According to Thamhain and Wilemon, _____ is the ability to improve a worker's position.

D. Promotion

_____ is based on an individual's personal charisma.

D. Referent power

In the MBTI, the _____ dimension relates to the manner in which you gather information.

D. Sensation/Intuition

In the Tuckman model, _____ occurs as team members have different opinions as to how the team should operate.

D. Storming

According to Herzberg, hygiene factors such as larger salaries, more supervision, or a more attractive work environment would motivate workers to do more if present.

False

Assignment, budget, promotion, money, and penalty influence bases are automatically available to project managers as part of their position.

False

Project managers must try to avoid conflict at all costs as all conflict within groups is bad.

False

People who need institutional power or social power want to organize others to further the goals of the organization.

True

Resource leveling results in fewer problems for project personnel and accounting departments.

True

Recognizing an employee as the "Star Performer of the Month" would be satisfying the _____ need of the Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

A.esteem

Key outputs of _____ process are project staff assignments, resource calendars, and project management plan updates.

B. acquiring the project team

_____ emphasizes things such as job rotation, broadening of skills, generalization versus specialization, and the need for continuous training of workers.

D. Theory Z