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