MGMT 467 Ch 12 Notes

In an organizational context, identify the statements that show the differences between teams and groups.

- Task interdependence typically is greater with teams than with groups. - Team members often have more differentiated and specialized roles than do group members.

Targeting and taking over a ship is which of the following?

A well-planned-out and orchestrated event

In an organizational context, a task where a group's output simply involves the combination of individual outputs is known as a(n) ____ task.

Additive

Which of the following is not a stage in the development of groups?

Avoiding

The functions of Team Leadership Model leadership include all of the following except which?

Describe

The question 'what's going on?' is addressed by which function of the Team Leadership Model?

Develop

True or false: In the leader-follower-situation model, leader characteristics play the most important role.

False

In an organizational context, match the factors of the leader-follower-situation framework (in the left column) with the corresponding factors from the Team Leadership Model (TLM) (in the right column).

Followers - Team composition, norms, interests or motivation, interpersonal behavior, and skills and abilities Situation - Task structure, reward system, education system, information system, and organizational structure

____ refer to the informal rules groups adopted to regulate and regularize group members' behaviors.

Norms

Which behavior do norms govern in an organization?

Only those behaviors a group feels are important

Which of the following most likely occurs when groups become so cohesive they erect fences or boundaries between themselves and others?

Overbounding

All of the following are true of groups except which?

People are limited to one group at a time.

In which stage of group formation should leaders focus on task behaviors in order to improve productivity?

Performing

____ conflict occurs when role expectations violate a person's values.

Person-role

The model that resembles a systems approach with inputs at the base, processes in the center, and outputs at the top is known as the:

Team Leadership Model

In an organizational context, which of the following is a difference between teams and groups?

Team members usually have a stronger sense of identification among themselves than group members do.

Which of the following is not true of leaders with a large span of control?

They display more consideration to followers.

Which of the following is not true of highly cohesive groups as compared to less cohesive groups?

They influence each other less.

True or false: Most people in an organization have multiple roles stemming from the various groups with which they are associated.

True

The Navy Seals are an example of ______.

a cluster

The Team Leadership Model does all of the following except

allow leadership to be understood as a function of the leader and his characteristics.

During the dream stage of development, leaders should

clearly define the vision of the team.

Subgroups of individuals who often share the same goals, values, and expectations are referred to as:

cliques.

The glue that keeps a group together is referred to as group ____.

cohesion

The term being used to describe team leadership, network leadership, and complexity leadership is ___ leadership.

collective

During the ____ stage, a clear vision of where the team is going is established.

dream

A ____ refers to two or more persons who are interacting with one another in such a manner that each person influences and is influenced by each other person.

group

The sets of expected behaviors associated with particular jobs or positions in an organization are known as _____.

group roles

When a group becomes more concerned with striving for unanimity than objectively appraising different action options, ___ has occurred.

groupthink

When someone is unable to perform all of his roles as well as he would like, ____ conflict takes place.

interrole

When the same person sends mixed signals, ___ conflict occurs.

intrasender role

The dress code of an organization is an example of a ______.

norm

The Shipboard Articles that individuals had to sign before they could become part of a pirate ship are similar to the ___ of modern organizations.

norms

In the context of an organization, the inefficiencies created by more and more people working together as a group are referred to as _____.

process loss

When discussing geographically dispersed teams (GDTs), distance can be defined to include all of the following except _______.

product-line

Another name for a geographically dispersed team is a Blank______ team.

virtual