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