MGT 312: Chapter EIGHT

The roles of initiator, orienter, and energizer are particularly important to groups because they:

Are goal-oriented

A person who prods the group to move along or to accomplish more has taken on the role of:

Energizer

The first stage of the group development process is:

Forming

The stages of the group development process, outlined in the text, in order, are:

Forming, storming, norming, performing, adjourning

In the lecture I stated that norms are not good when they:

Guide behavior in a direction contrary to the organizations stated intent

Teams with high levels of ______ and ______ deal with task conflict better than those without these characteristics.

Openness; emotional stability

According to research, the most effective teams are those with:

Similar levels of conscientiousness and mixed extraversion

A small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, performance goals, and approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable are a(n):

Team

______ is a reciprocal belief that another person will consider how their intentions and behaviors will affect you.

Trust

A _____ is a set of expected behaviors for a particular position.

Role

Groups of workers who are given administrative oversight for their task domains are called:

Self-managed teams

A group becomes a team when:

Accountability shifts from strictly individual to both individual and collective

______ groups are assigned by organizations or managers, while _______ groups form when members' purpose of getting together is friendship or a common interest.

Formal; informal

A person in the orienter role will:

Keep the group headed toward its stated goals

Group cohesiveness, when it occurs, tends to develop during which stage of the group development process?

Norming

In which stage of the group development process do group members resolve their power struggles so that something can be accomplished?

Norming

In which stage of the group development process is the group focused on solving task problems?

Performing

A document that describes how a team will operate is called a:

Charter

XYZ Inc. brings together specialists from production, marketing, and finance from around the world, and gives each such team the power to make its own decisions. This implies that the firm is creating a(n) _____ team.

Cross-functional

Recent research shows that in early stages of team development, teams perform better when members have a high:

Tolerance for uncertainty