Managing People in Organizations Learn Smart Questions

Chapter 11: LearnSmart Questions                At Lamb’s Peace Church, the music director, youth group director, and director of religious education work on their tasks with little collaboration, even though they share an administrative staff. This is an example of ____ interdependence o Pooled The degree to which team members interact with one another and rely on other team members for the information, materials, and resources needed to accomplish work for the team is referred to as o Task interdependence ____ interdependence demands the highest level of interaction and coordination among team members o Comprehensive Which of the following typically occurs with increasing levels of task interdependence? o Members spend increasing amounts of time coordinating their activities ____ interdependence is the extent to which the members of a team share a common fate in terms of positive or negative outcomes o Outcome In leader staff teams, decisions are made collaboratively between the team leader and members of the team o False A team’s success depends on the abilities of the “weakest link” of the team in which type of task? o Conjunctive The degree to which members of a team differ from one another is referred to as team o Diversity The phenomenon in which people tend to interact with people who are similar to themselves and avoid interacting with those who are dissimilar is known as o The similarity-attraction approach A team that is susceptible to “fault lines” typically has a high degree of o Surface-level diversity High outcome interdependence promotes ___ levels of cooperation o higher Research has demonstrated that team members are most pleased with a team in which there are ___ team members o Between four and five List the following types of task interdependence in order of degree of interdependence, highest degree on top o Comprehensive, reciprocal, sequential, pooled As a general rule, as the extent of task interdependence ____, the time spent staying in touch with and coordinating with team members to finish tasks ___ o Increases, increases A ____ is defined as a pattern of behavior that a person is expected to display in a given context.                o Role Observable demographic and other overt differences in people, such as gender, age, and race, are known as ___ diversity o Surface-level Aspects of team composition that are crucial in influencing team functioning and effectiveness include which of the following? o Team diversity, member ability, team size A team that makes goods or offers services o Work team A team formed to solve a one-time problem or design a product or service o Project team A team composed of members from various jobs who consult on various organizational issues o Parallel team A team that executes complete tasks in situations that are difficult or viewable by others o Action team A team that oversees the functioning of an organization o Management team Teams whose tasks are quite complex and take place in contexts that are either highly visible to an audience or of a highly challenging nature are known as ___ teams. o Action A team whose members are geographically dispersed but are linked through information technologies to work independently toward common goals is known as a ____ team o Virtual Behaviors that benefit the individual at the expense of the team are referred to as ___ roles o Individualistic Which of the following are characteristics that help distinguish the five general types of teams? o Life-span of the team, objectives of the team, the extent to which team members are participating A way to measure team effectiveness is to asses the team’s o Performance The model of group development that asserts that teams establish patterns of behavior for task completion, experience a period of inertia midway through the project, and then fundamentally change their behavior in order to complete the project in a timely manner is referred to as o Punctuated equilibrium With _____, team members receive rewards that are dependent on both their team’s performance and how well they perform as individuals o Hybrid outcome interdependence The likelihood that the members of a team can work together effectively into the future is referred to as team  o Viability Members receive rewards that are dependent on both their team’s performance and how well they perform as individuals. Minimizes freeloaders. o Hybrid outcome interdependence