Ch 3 Team Beginnings

Which of the following is NOT one of the stages of group socialization?

Absorption

Ancona and Caldwell (1990) present a model of group development based on the:

Changing nature of tasks and how these changes affect internal processes and external relations

In the Hawthorne studies of teamwork, group norms:

Controlled the amount of work people performed

Research suggests all groups develop in sequential, discrete stages.

False

Team goals are most effective when they are created by a leader outside of the group.

False

Team norms are explicit, written rules.

False

Which of the following is the correct order of Tuckmanâ s stages of group development?

Forming, storming, norming, performing, adjourning

Most of the literature on virtual teams suggests:

Getting the team together face-to-face at the start of the project

Which of the following statements about the stages of group development is FALSE?

Groups go through a storming or conflict stage after they have completed most of their work.

Research on work teams shows that clear project goals:

Help improve team performance and internal team processes

Team norms are valuable because they

Help to define what is appropriate behavior by team members

The conflict between individual and group goals can lead to:

Hidden agendas that disrupt the groupâ s performance

Contemporary approaches to group socialization examine:

How work teams deal with constantly changing group membership.

The project development perspective suggests that early on the team works on:

Making sure members know what their roles are

One of the important lessons from the study of group development is:

Most of the productive work occurs at the end of a project.

Ground rules that define appropriate and inappropriate behavior in a team are called:

Norms

Which of the following is FALSE about â Flashâ teams?

Socialization does not occur in these teams because they change so quickly.

According to the punctuated equilibrium model, teams should focus on task strategy at:

The midpoint crisis

Virtual teams pose challenges not often faced by traditional face-to-face teams.

True

Group socialization refers to a process by which:

a person becomes a member of a group.