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Teamwork Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. On this stage of team develoment group members agree on their shared goals - and norms and closer relationships develop.
Norming
Performing
Social Loafing
Mediator
2. This working relationship emerge as materials are passed from one group to another.
Work flow relationships
Scouting
Semiautonomous work groups
Parallel Teams
3. A style of dealing with conflict involing moderate attention to both parties concerns.
Teamwork
Parading
Compromise
Scouting
4. What are the three categories of team effectiveness?
Norms
Task Specialist
Productive output - Satisfaction and Committed
Work Teams
5. On this stage of team develoment groups that deterioate go through this stage.
Teamwork
Declining
Management Teams
Storming
6. On this stage of team development hostilities and conflict arise - and people jockey for positions of power and status.
Cohesiveness
Relating - Scouting - Persuading amd Empowering
Storming
Advisory relationships
7. On this leader role exhibiting social and political awareness - caring for team members - and building trust.
Accommodation
Probing
Scouting
Relating
8. Different sets of exceptions for how different individuals should behave.
Declining
Collaboration
Roles
Empowering
9. Shared beliefs about how people should think and behave.
Advisory relationships
Declining
Social Facilitation Effect
Norms
10. A team member who keeps abreast of current developments and provides the team with relevant information.
Virtual Teams
Gatekeeper
Parading
Social Facilitation Effect
11. An individual who has more advanced job-related skills and abilities than other group members possess.
Task Specialist
Virtual Teams
Transnational Teams
Liasion relationships
12. A style of dealing with conflict involving cooperation on behalf of the other party but not being assertive about ones own interest.
Accommodation
Gatekeeper
Compromise
Work Teams
13. Groups that control decisions about and execution of a complete range of tasks.
Informing
Accommodation
Autonomous Work groups
Audit relationships
14. A team strategy that entails making decisions with the team and then informing outsiders of its intentions.
Informing
Adjourning
Forming
Mediator
15. A small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose - set of performance goals - and approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable.
Cohesiveness
Productive output - Satisfaction and Committed
Scouting
Team
16. This working relationship is created when teams with problems call on centralized sources of expert knowledge.
Advisory relationships
Teamwork
Work flow relationships
Cohesiveness
17. Teams that make or do things like manufacture - assemble - sell - or provide service.
Work Teams
Storming
Traditional Work Groups
Avoidance
18. A third party who intervenes to help others manage their conflict.
Gatekeeper
Advisory relationships
Mediator
Semiautonomous work groups
19. Teams that are physically dispersed and communicate electronically more than face-to-face.
Virtual Teams
Project and Development Teams
Accommodation
Forming -Storming - Norming - Performing - Declining and Adjourning
20. Teams with the responsibilities of autonomous work groups - plus control over hiring - firing - and deciding what tasks members perform.
Declining
Self Designing Teams
Management Teams
Advisory relationships
21. The process of working collaboratively with a group of people in order to achieve a goal.
Norming
Collaboration
Forming -Storming - Norming - Performing - Declining and Adjourning
Teamwork
22. What are the four roles leaders should perform?
Teamwork
Compromise
Relating - Scouting - Persuading amd Empowering
Management Teams
23. This working relationship involve auditing before the fact.
Scouting
Informing
Work flow relationships
Stabilization relationships
24. Higher-level goals taking priority over specific individual or group goals.
Superordinate Goals
Compromise
Audit relationships
Probing
25. A team strategy that entails simultaneously emphasizing internal team building and achieving external visibility.
Social Loafing
Autonomous Work groups
Parading
Transnational Teams
26. On this leader role delegating authority - being flexible regarding team decisions - and coaching.
Parallel Teams
Traditional Work Groups
Empowering
Adjourning
27. Voluntary groups of people drawn from various production teams who make suggestions about quality.
Parallel Teams
Quality Circle
Teamwork
Audit relationships
28. What are the six stages of team development of a group?
Forming -Storming - Norming - Performing - Declining and Adjourning
Autonomous Work groups
Work flow relationships
Project and Development Teams
29. A team strategy that requires team members to interact frequently with outsiders - diagnose their needs - and experiment with solutions.
Competing
Probing
Audit relationships
Performing
30. On this leader role influencing team members - as well as obtaining external support for teams.
Accommodation
Persuading
Semiautonomous work groups
Norms
31. A style of dealing with conflict emphasizing both cooperation and assertiveness in order to maximize both parties satisfaction.
Persuading
Productive output - Satisfaction and Committed
Collaboration
Informing
32. On this stage of team develoment group members attempt to lay the grounds rules for what types of behavior are acceptable.
Service relationships
Forming
Informing
Forming -Storming - Norming - Performing - Declining and Adjourning
33. The degree to which a group is attractive to its members - members are motivated to remain in the group - and members influence one another.
Management Teams
Declining
Service relationships
Cohesiveness
34. Working harder when in a group than when working alone.
Superordinate Goals
Accommodation
Social Facilitation Effect
Parading
35. Groups that make decisions about managing and carrying out major production activities but get outside support for quality control and maintenance.
Competing
Semiautonomous work groups
Autonomous Work groups
Parallel Teams
36. Involve intermediaries between teams.
Performing
Social Loafing
Liasion relationships
Virtual Teams
37. Teams that work on long-term projects but disband once the work is completed.
Project and Development Teams
Social Loafing
Work Teams
Forming
38. A reaction to conflict that involves ignoring the problem by doing nothing at all - or deemphasizing the disagreement.
Task Specialist
Management Teams
Work Teams
Avoidance
39. On this leader role seeking information from managers - peers - and specialists - and investigating problems systematically.
Semiautonomous work groups
Work flow relationships
Mediator
Scouting
40. This working relationship exist when top management centralizes an activity to which a large number of other units must gain access.
Service relationships
Roles
Project and Development Teams
Autonomous Work groups
41. Individual who develops and maintains team harmony.
Work flow relationships
Team Maintenance Specialists
Stabilization relationships
Productive output - Satisfaction and Committed
42. Working less hard and being less productive when in a group.
Gatekeeper
Social Loafing
Work flow - service - advisory - audit - stabilization - and liasion
Team
43. Work groups composed of mulinational members whose activities span muliple countries.
Norming
Transnational Teams
Storming
Work flow - service - advisory - audit - stabilization - and liasion
44. Groups that have no managerial responsibilities.
Traditional Work Groups
Semiautonomous work groups
Avoidance
Relating
45. On this stage of team develoment the group channels its energies into performing its task.
Accommodation
Advisory relationships
Team Maintenance Specialists
Performing
46. Autonomous work groups in which workers are trained to do all or most of the jobs in a unit - have no immediate supervisor - and make decisions previously made by first-line superisors.
Self Managed Teams
Work flow - service - advisory - audit - stabilization - and liasion
Norming
Parading
47. What are the six different working relationships?
Self Managed Teams
Team
Relating
Work flow - service - advisory - audit - stabilization - and liasion
48. On this stage of team develoment temporary groups go through this stage (also called terminating stage).
Adjourning
Forming -Storming - Norming - Performing - Declining and Adjourning
Teamwork
Social Loafing
49. Teams that operate separately from the regular work structure - and exist temporarily.
Stabilization relationships
Teamwork
Parallel Teams
Self Designing Teams
50. Teams that coordinate and give direction to the subunits inder their jurisdiction and integrate work among subunits.
Relating
Management Teams
Relating - Scouting - Persuading amd Empowering
Accommodation