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