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