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