Connect Quiz 6
___ diversity refers to diversity regarding observable attributes such as race, ethnicity, sex, and age
surface-level
___ can be beneficial to teams if it stimulates conversation that result in the development and expression of new ideas
task conflict
deep-level diversity has positive effects on team creativity when
team members are instructed to take the perspective of their teammates
At Bark Shape industries, each employee has a workspace in which to debark logs used to make rustic homes and patio furniture. The policy is that everyone on a team must remain at his or her workstation until everyone has secured the logs they were working on. At the end of the shift, everyone on team C is ready to go home, but they are waiting on Felipe, who still has not secured his logs. Exceeding the time allocated in a shift hurts the production rating of a team. Team C is witnessing a(n) _____ task.
conjunctive
___ tasks depend on the abilities of the "weakest link"
conjunctive
one way to potentially prevent problems associated with too much cohesion is to formally institute a role of a ___, a person who is responsible for evaluating and challenging prevailing points of view in a constructive manner and also bringing fresh perspectives and ideas to the team
devil's advocate
JFK's decision to go forward with the bay of pigs invasion of cuba, NASA's decision to launch the space shuttle Challenger in unusually cold weather, and Enron's board of directors' decisions to ignore illegal accounting practices are famous examples of
groupthink
___ is the phenomenon occurring when members of a team exert less effort when working on team tasks than they would if they worked alone on those same tasks
social loafing
nominal group technique decreases social loafing and production blocking-problems with brainstorming- by
making people write down ideas on their own
charlie is an accountant at a large firm. his boss instituted a plan designed to create high levels of task interdependence. which of the following is not something charlie should be prepared for?
the team being less able to adapt to new situations