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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.
Collaboration
Competing
Gatekeeper
Traditional Work Groups
2. On this leader role delegating authority - being flexible regarding team decisions - and coaching.
Team Maintenance Specialists
Self Managed Teams
Empowering
Management Teams
3. On this stage of team develoment group members attempt to lay the grounds rules for what types of behavior are acceptable.
Self Managed Teams
Scouting
Team
Forming
4. Teams that coordinate and give direction to the subunits inder their jurisdiction and integrate work among subunits.
Management Teams
Gatekeeper
Accommodation
Work flow - service - advisory - audit - stabilization - and liasion
5. A team strategy that entails simultaneously emphasizing internal team building and achieving external visibility.
Superordinate Goals
Parading
Transnational Teams
Performing
6. 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.
Avoidance
Social Loafing
Task Specialist
Self Managed Teams
7. Involve intermediaries between teams.
Gatekeeper
Traditional Work Groups
Liasion relationships
Work Teams
8. What are the three categories of team effectiveness?
Roles
Productive output - Satisfaction and Committed
Social Loafing
Compromise
9. On this stage of team develoment the group channels its energies into performing its task.
Gatekeeper
Scouting
Virtual Teams
Performing
10. Voluntary groups of people drawn from various production teams who make suggestions about quality.
Competing
Quality Circle
Autonomous Work groups
Roles
11. What are the six stages of team development of a group?
Parallel Teams
Management Teams
Forming -Storming - Norming - Performing - Declining and Adjourning
Transnational Teams
12. An individual who has more advanced job-related skills and abilities than other group members possess.
Roles
Task Specialist
Cohesiveness
Collaboration
13. What are the six different working relationships?
Stabilization relationships
Work flow - service - advisory - audit - stabilization - and liasion
Mediator
Project and Development Teams
14. Higher-level goals taking priority over specific individual or group goals.
Project and Development Teams
Autonomous Work groups
Superordinate Goals
Team
15. A style of dealing with conflict involving cooperation on behalf of the other party but not being assertive about ones own interest.
Forming
Accommodation
Performing
Self Designing Teams
16. A team strategy that requires team members to interact frequently with outsiders - diagnose their needs - and experiment with solutions.
Advisory relationships
Mediator
Norms
Probing
17. A style of dealing with conflict emphasizing both cooperation and assertiveness in order to maximize both parties satisfaction.
Traditional Work Groups
Work flow - service - advisory - audit - stabilization - and liasion
Collaboration
Norms
18. Groups that control decisions about and execution of a complete range of tasks.
Autonomous Work groups
Task Specialist
Norms
Empowering
19. On this leader role seeking information from managers - peers - and specialists - and investigating problems systematically.
Scouting
Self Designing Teams
Collaboration
Empowering
20. Teams that operate separately from the regular work structure - and exist temporarily.
Team Maintenance Specialists
Work Teams
Parallel Teams
Team
21. Work groups composed of mulinational members whose activities span muliple countries.
Adjourning
Teamwork
Transnational Teams
Mediator
22. A team strategy that entails making decisions with the team and then informing outsiders of its intentions.
Declining
Cohesiveness
Informing
Collaboration
23. 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
Virtual Teams
Self Designing Teams
Parading
24. Teams with the responsibilities of autonomous work groups - plus control over hiring - firing - and deciding what tasks members perform.
Performing
Self Designing Teams
Traditional Work Groups
Parallel Teams
25. Teams that make or do things like manufacture - assemble - sell - or provide service.
Work Teams
Parading
Task Specialist
Self Managed Teams
26. A style of dealing with conflict involving strong focus on ones own goals and little or no concern for the other peson's goals.
Gatekeeper
Self Managed Teams
Collaboration
Competing
27. On this stage of team develoment groups that deterioate go through this stage.
Work Teams
Declining
Collaboration
Informing
28. Groups that have no managerial responsibilities.
Compromise
Superordinate Goals
Traditional Work Groups
Autonomous Work groups
29. This working relationship emerge as materials are passed from one group to another.
Forming -Storming - Norming - Performing - Declining and Adjourning
Empowering
Roles
Work flow relationships
30. A third party who intervenes to help others manage their conflict.
Autonomous Work groups
Cohesiveness
Mediator
Social Facilitation Effect
31. On this stage of team development hostilities and conflict arise - and people jockey for positions of power and status.
Work flow relationships
Storming
Parallel Teams
Adjourning
32. On this stage of team develoment group members agree on their shared goals - and norms and closer relationships develop.
Stabilization relationships
Norming
Adjourning
Autonomous Work groups
33. This working relationship involve auditing before the fact.
Declining
Stabilization relationships
Norms
Work Teams
34. Working harder when in a group than when working alone.
Parading
Collaboration
Storming
Social Facilitation Effect
35. A style of dealing with conflict involing moderate attention to both parties concerns.
Roles
Work Teams
Avoidance
Compromise
36. This working relationship exist when top management centralizes an activity to which a large number of other units must gain access.
Service relationships
Project and Development Teams
Traditional Work Groups
Forming -Storming - Norming - Performing - Declining and Adjourning
37. This working relationship develop when people not directly in the chain of command evaluate the methods and performances of other teams.
Self Managed Teams
Team Maintenance Specialists
Audit relationships
Liasion relationships
38. On this leader role exhibiting social and political awareness - caring for team members - and building trust.
Norming
Relating
Teamwork
Probing
39. What are the four roles leaders should perform?
Management Teams
Project and Development Teams
Mediator
Relating - Scouting - Persuading amd Empowering
40. On this stage of team develoment temporary groups go through this stage (also called terminating stage).
Cohesiveness
Norms
Parallel Teams
Adjourning
41. Teams that are physically dispersed and communicate electronically more than face-to-face.
Work flow - service - advisory - audit - stabilization - and liasion
Norming
Virtual Teams
Semiautonomous work groups
42. Shared beliefs about how people should think and behave.
Work Teams
Norms
Audit relationships
Team
43. Individual who develops and maintains team harmony.
Project and Development Teams
Collaboration
Social Facilitation Effect
Team Maintenance Specialists
44. The process of working collaboratively with a group of people in order to achieve a goal.
Teamwork
Task Specialist
Management Teams
Audit relationships
45. Groups that make decisions about managing and carrying out major production activities but get outside support for quality control and maintenance.
Self Designing Teams
Empowering
Semiautonomous work groups
Transnational Teams
46. On this leader role influencing team members - as well as obtaining external support for teams.
Parading
Social Facilitation Effect
Self Designing Teams
Persuading
47. Working less hard and being less productive when in a group.
Team Maintenance Specialists
Project and Development Teams
Social Loafing
Traditional Work Groups
48. The degree to which a group is attractive to its members - members are motivated to remain in the group - and members influence one another.
Productive output - Satisfaction and Committed
Social Loafing
Self Managed Teams
Cohesiveness
49. Different sets of exceptions for how different individuals should behave.
Mediator
Parading
Roles
Norming
50. Teams that work on long-term projects but disband once the work is completed.
Liasion relationships
Stabilization relationships
Project and Development Teams
Storming