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