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