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