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