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Question 61

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In the stages of team development, a team moves from growth to decline during the ____ stage.

A) storming
B) de-forming
C) de-storming
D) de-norming
E) reforming

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Question 62

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According to the text, a(n) ____ is a small number of people with complementary skills who hold themselves mutually accountable for pursuing a common purpose, achieving performance goals, and improving interdependent work processes.

A) work team
B) venture group
C) semi-structured team
D) autonomous unit
E) ad hoc team

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Question 63

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____ undermines team effectiveness by preventing teams from engaging in the kinds of activities that are critical to team effectiveness.

Which of the following is a method used for compensating employees for team participation and accomplishments?

Which of the following is the only type of responsibility given to traditional work groups?

A company engaged in cross training is using individual team members to teach other members how to do all or most of the jobs they can perform.

List the five types of teams on the team autonomy continuum. What is each team's highest level of responsibility (i.e., the highest level of task that they have independent control over)?

Which of the following types of teams has the authority to change their composition as well as all of their tasks and work methods?

Group cohesion tends to be relatively strong at the ____ stage of team development.

Many orthopedic parts are almost identical in size and shape. Stryker Howmedica Osteonics in New Jersey used a semi-autonomous work group to develop Product Recognition Technology that makes sure parts are identified correctly and orders are filled correctly. What happened when the team reached the storming stage of team development?

The least amount of team autonomy is found in ____.

Which of the following statements regarding cohesiveness is true?

Structural accommodation means giving teams the ability to change organizational structures, policies, and practices if it helps them meet their stretch goals.

Mattel Ivy Ross, Mattel's head of design and packaging for its girls division, needed a new toy that was part construction set and part craft kit. Ross built a team from various departments (designers from research and development, model makers from production, copywriters from marketing, etc.) and assigned them the task of developing the new toy. The twelve members of the team were freed from all other duties so they could concentrate on developing this new toy. During their first week together, members were exposed to different ways of thinking. One of the hardest things the group had to deal with was the lack of structure. It took participants nearly two weeks to realize that there was no schedule for their activities. The strength of the team lay in its members' abilities to build on each other's ideas and to trust one another. -Refer to Mattel. One of the advantages associated with the creation of such teams is ____.

Which of the following kinds of team is always temporary?

An organization engaged in ____ its work team members is training them in how to do all or most of the jobs performed by the other team members.

The ____ is created to complete specific, one-time projects or tasks within a limited time.

Cohesiveness refers to the extent to which members of a team are experiencing job satisfaction.

Many orthopedic parts are almost identical in size and shape. Stryker Howmedica Osteonics in New Jersey used a semi-autonomous work group to develop Product Recognition Technology that makes sure parts are identified correctly and orders are filled correctly. This group would be classified as a(n) ____.

A group in Great Britain has been established to improve the employment, retention, and promotion prospects of blacks and other ethnic minorities as well as women in the Fire and Rescue Service, which at present has a largely white, male demographic. This ____ team has two years to gather information and create a plan.