MGT 325 Module 6 Review
A faultline occurs in a group when multiple dimensions of diversity converge and create a strong set of sub-groups that threaten to break apart and go their own way.
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A group is a collection of two or more people who interact with one another in a way such that each person influences and is influenced by the others.
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A large body of research indicates that groups of individuals working together are sometimes less productive than the same number of people working alone.
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A role characterized as a loose-cannon prototype is one in which emergent elements greatly outnumber the few established elements.
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A role occupant may experience person-role conflict and have ideas about how the role should be performed that conflict with demands made by other role senders.
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A role set consists of a collection of people who interact with a role occupant and serve as the source of the norms that influence that person's behaviors.
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An effective group is able to satisfy immediate demands for performance and member satisfaction, while making provisions for long-term survival learning, and adaptation.
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Behavioral masking in a group increases the likelihood of social loafing by its members.
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Conformity occurs when role occupants choose to accept both pivotal and peripheral norms, and is marked by a tendency to try to fit in with others in a loyal but uncreative way.
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Decentralization increases the productivity of groups performing complex tasks and also increases member satisfaction and perceptions of group potency.
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Established task elements are the formally prescribed parts of a role that arise because the role occupant is expected to perform a particular job.
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Functional diversity means that each member of the team differs in terms of their educational background or area of task expertise.
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Group synergy occurs when the productivity of a group exceeds potential individual contributions.
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In a conjunctive task, the group's level of performance depends on the resources that the least able group member brings to the task.
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In an additive task, the sum of the individual team members' contributions equals the team's performance.
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Jargon maximizes information exchange with a minimum of time and symbols by taking advantage of the shared training and experience of its users.
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Norms are the expectations that make up roles and give shape to interpersonal relations.
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Procedural justice means that the methods and procedures used to arrive at decisions that affect the employee negatively are seen as fair.
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Process loss can result from social loafing, the choice by some members of a group to take advantage of others by decreasing their own contributions to group productivity.
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Production blocking occurs when people get in each other's way as they try to perform a group task.
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Role custodianship means that role holders do not question the status quo but instead conform to it.
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Sequential interdependence is a chain of one-way interactions in which people depend on those individuals who precede them in the chain but are independent of those who follow them.
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Socialization is the procedure through which people acquire the social knowledge and skills necessary to correctly assume new roles in a group or an organization.
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Task interdependence refers to the degree to which team members interact cooperatively and work interactively to complete tasks.
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Teams are a special type of group that possess some degree of skill differentiation, authority differentiation, and temporal stability.
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The negative difference between what a group actually produces and what it might theoretically produce constitutes process loss.
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To promote innovation, an organization is better served by a strategy that provides a unique and individualized socialization program for each recipient.
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When a task is simple and communication networks are centralized, a group's speed and accuracy are both higher.
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A power imbalance between a role sender and a role occupant is likely to enhance communication.
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Adherence to pivotal norms isn't required for interpersonal relations to persist and work to be performed without major interruption.
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Cooperative group rewards are distributed equitably among the members of a group.
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Equity theory requires that outcomes or inputs be equal for equity to exist.
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Functional grouping means that groups are formed around shared workflows.
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In collective socialization, recipients go through individualized socialization experiences.
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In communication, the medium is the originator of the message.
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In serial socialization, new members must learn by themselves how to handle a new role.
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In the final stage of group development, maturity, group productivity is undermined byuncertainty and anxiety.
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People who are reciprocally interdependent are less tightly interconnected than are individuals who are interconnected by either pooled or sequential interdependence.
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Pooled interdependence occurs when people draw resources from a shared source and have additional direct contact on a regular basis.
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Workflow grouping creates groups that are efficient and save costs.
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