Career Preparation Edge - Teamwork and Collaboration

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Total quality management theorizes that if workers are more responsible, they will ______.

A. Increase overall quality

Workers who get to be a part of effective teams are likely to have ______.

B. Increased self-esteem

Being assigned to a team means that a worker will work over a period of time with ______.

C. Other workers on common goals

Teams generally have which of the following effects on stereotypes and biases in the workplace?

C. Teams will reduce tension between workers

Which of these is not a benefit of working as a team?

D. Increased personal workload

Self-directed teams will generally ______.

D. Not report to a manager

Workers who are not good team members might cause ______.

D. Reduced productivity

Explain why team goals should be broken into short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals.

Goals should be broken down according to time because it allows the team to decide what their overall purpose is, and to define the actions that will allow them to achieve their overall purpose. Additionally, it allows goals to be more easily broken down into tasks which can them be assigned as necessary to team members.

Defend or critique the following statement: "People who are unable to put aside their own interests should not be on teams."

People may learn to become unselfish as a result of good teamwork, or people who refuse to put aside their self interests may sabotage a team by not keeping the common goals in mind.

Explain the benefits of organizing workers into efficient teams.

Workers in efficient teams will increase profits for companies, because their workers will complete tasks more efficiently, with better job satisfaction and self-esteem, than workers on individual projects.


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