Quiz 6

Halle is on a team that has just been formed. There are people of a wide variety of ages, genders, and ethnicities. Halle's team demonstrates

surface-level diversity.

Deep-level diversity has positive effects on team creativity when

team members are instructed to take the perspective of their teammates. -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 their workstations until all the logs the team is working on are secured. 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 for which the team's performance depends on the abilities of the "weakest link" are called conjunctive tasks. Felipe failing to secure his logs so the entire team can go home is a form of a weak link.

________ results from members feeling less accountable for team outcomes relative to independent work resulting in individually identifiable outcomes.

Social loafing -This is the definition of social loafing.

________ can be beneficial to teams if it stimulates conversations that result in the development and expression of new ideas.

Task conflict -Task conflict can be beneficial to teams if it stimulates conversations that result in the development and expression of new ideas.

Which of the following is a result of creating high levels of task interdependence?

Teams will be better able to adapt to new situations. -Increases in task interdependence increase the ability of the team to adapt to new situations.

One way to potentially prevent problems associated with too much cohesion is to formally institute the role of a(n) ________, a person who is responsible for evaluating and challenging prevailing points of view in a constructive manner and also bringing in fresh perspectives and ideas to the team

devil's advocate -A step in preventing problems associated with too much cohesion would be to formally institute the role of devil's advocate. The person performing the devil's advocate role would be responsible for evaluating and challenging prevailing points of view in a constructive manner and also bringing in fresh perspectives and ideas to the team.

John F. Kennedy'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.

Nominal group technique decreases social loafing and production blocking—problems with brainstorming—by

making people write down ideas on their own. -Nominal group technique addresses the problems with brainstorming by making people write down ideas on their own, which decreases social loafing and production blocking