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