Quiz 3 (Chapters 11 & 12)
________ refer(s) to the degree to which members believe that the team can be effective across a variety of situations and tasks.
Potency
Which of the following is true of programs like Slack and Adobe Connect?
They give the ability to analyze real-time problems.
Which of the following is true of virtual teams?
They should progress through normal team stages just like in-person teams.
At his sales firm, Angus tends to have a negative attitude and deflates his group members by being hostile toward their ideas and accomplishments. Angus fills the individualistic role of
aggressor.
Hybrid outcome interdependence bases employee compensation on
both team and individual performance.
The "Chonut" was conceived in a meeting that sounds most like what group technique for generating creative ideas?
brainstorming
Skunkworks appeared to have ________ task interdependence, while the Levittown builder seemed to have ________ task interdependence.
comprehensive; sequential
In Levittown building teams, slow foundation layers could delay finishing a house because framers, painters, electricians, and others must wait in order to complete the home, suggesting what type of task?
conjunctive
One similar need of all the bands in this case is to not only play their own parts but also to organize the music together, resulting in
coordination loss.
Agency employees interact with Taco Bell employees across job types because they need knowledge about the products and plans, increasing their
decision informity.
At Skunkworks, engineers and builders worked jointly to avoid unbuildable designs, perhaps avoiding the phenomenon in which subgroups don't communicate and work effectively, called
faultlines.
The Menlo Park team was excited about their work and didn't mind going in on weekends because they believed in the team's purpose, called
goal interdependence.
According to your text, team members can best operate more independently when they
have high levels of team-relevant knowledge from outside experts.
The Director of Taco Bell's in-house creative agency described the workplace as an "ego-free zone," suggesting openness to his team members' ideas, also called
hierarchical sensitivity.
This type of team can be very effective remotely because the members are working in their normal jobs and only come together when there is an issue.
parallel
All of the famous bands in this case may be said to produce better music than they would according to each's individual capability alone, also called
process gain.
Simon and Garfunkel were each considered amazing musicians as individuals, and their refusal to work together to record a 12th song on their final album is a good example of
process loss.
Fights between Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker in the band Cream included sabotaging each other's musical equipment, which took time from their work while the other band member Eric Clapton waited. The fighting would be considered
production blocking.
Ringo leaving during the recording of The White Album is most like the team concept
social loafing.
The Agency Director Ayers encourages his employees to pursue their own artistic endeavors in order to give them inspiration and insight, which can help them bring new and better ideas to their work, called
staff validity.
Project teams are formed to
take on "one-time" tasks that are often complex and require input from members with different types of training and expertise.
When an agency employee reaches out to people in other parts of the organization to discuss products and strategic plans, that employee is engaged in ________, which is one type of ________.
task coordinationl boundary-spanning
Edison employed four team members representing four nationalities and widely diverse specializations in work backgrounds, seemingly adopting what theory of team diversity?
value in diversity problem-solving
What does Dell credit as being a critical factor to engagement in remote team meetings?
video
Which of the following communication network structures has the highest centralization?
wheel
