Effective Groups And Teams

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Managers and Managing
The Evolution of Management
Values, Attitudes, Emotions, and Culture: The Manager As a Person
Ethics and Social Responsibility
Managing Diverse Employees in a Multicultural Environment
Managing in the Global Environment
Decision Making, Learning, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
The Manager As a Planner and a Strategist
Value Chain Management: Functional Strategies for Competitive Advantage
Managing Organizational Structure and Culture
Organizational Control and Change
Human Resource Management
Motivation Performance
Leadership
Effective Groups and Teams
Promoting Effective Communication
Managing Conflict, Politics, and Negotiation
Used Advanced Information Technology to Increase Performance

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Question 1

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All teams are groups, and all groups are teams.

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Question 2

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Managers can take advantage of the potential for synergy in groups by composing the group with members who have complementary skills and knowledge relevant to the group's work.

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Question 3

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Groupthink is when group members strive to agree with each other instead of trying to make an accurate assessment of the situation.

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When top managers design an organization's structure and establish a chain of command, they are essentially creating ad hoc committees.

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Question 5

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Employees of self-managed work teams sometimes have individual jobs.

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Employees of a multinational organization will mostly likely opt for asynchronous technologies when large differences in time zones make it impossible for them to communicate on a real-time basis.

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Members of small groups are better able to see the importance of their personal contributions for their group's success when compared to members of other small groups.

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Question 8

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When group members are reciprocally interdependent, managers are advised to create large groups.

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Question 9

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Leaders that emerge naturally from a group are called informal leaders.

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Deviance signals that a group did not respond when one of its members violated group norms.

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The degree to which members of a group are attracted to or loyal to the group is called group cohesiveness.

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Question 12

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Group identity and healthy competition are consequences of group cohesiveness.

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High levels of cohesiveness can cause group members to be less focused on group goal accomplishment.

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The tendency of individuals to put in more effort when they work in groups than when they work alone is called social loafing.

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Question 15

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As group size increases, social loafing decreases.

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Question 16

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Which of the following statements is true with respect to groups and teams?

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All groups are considered as teams.

Teams have no restrictions on the number of members in them, unlike groups.

The intensity with which members work together is always higher in a team than in a group.

All groups are informal and all teams are formal.

There is a specific, overriding common goal or objective for groups but not for teams.

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Question 17

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__________ is performance gains that result when individuals and departments coordinate their actions.

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Synergy

Conformance

Deviance

Groupthink

Social loafing

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Question 18

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In order to take advantage of the potential for synergy, managers should

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create groups where the members have identical personalities.

be strongly directive with the group.

appoint members with complementary skills and knowledge.

avoid empowerment.

reward individual performances instead of the group as a whole.

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Question 19

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To further promote innovation among team members, the manager should avoid

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offering guidance to the group.

coaching the group in developing certain skills.

closely directing or supervising the group.

providing the resources the group needs.

assisting the group in its requirements.

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Question 20

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_______ groups are established by managers to attain organizational goals.

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Friendship

Control

Formal

Interest

Advocacy

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