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