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Management Practice Test: Understanding Groups and Managing Work Teams
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Management Practice Test: Understanding Groups and Managing Work Teams
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1. The ________ stage of the group development process is complete when members begin to think of themselves as part of a group.
2. High cohesiveness combined with a very weak alignment between group goals and organizational goals typically results in this.
3. Large groups appear to perform better when the goal of the group is to ________.
4. Team efficacy is a measure of how ________ a team is.
5. High cohesiveness combined with a strong alignment between group goals and organizational goals typically results in this.
6. How agreeable or disagreeable team members are affects team performance, especially when ________.
7. Status incongruence can be upsetting to employees because it sends a signal that organizational accomplishments ________.
8. As the size of a group increases, the output of ________.
9. Which statement is true?
10. Which of the following is NOT generally thought to be an advantage of teams over traditional work arrangements?
11. The primary reason for why social loafing occurs is that output contributions from ________ easily be measured.
12. Group norms are typically established ________.
13. Small groups appear to perform better when it comes to ________.
14. Group cohesiveness is largely a measure of how ________.
15. The main difference between work groups and work teams is that ________.
16. A major benefit of global teams is ________.
17. Of the following, which is NOT thought to be an advantage of teams within an organization?
18. Members of an organization typically ________ the status of other organizational members.
19. A global team member from China would be likely to be ________.
20. A team that is suffering attacks by managers from another division needs someone to fulfill this team role.
21. The use of work teams creates the potential for an organization to generate ________.
22. The only effective way to guard against social loafing is for managers to make special efforts to do this.
23. Solomon Asch carried out pioneering studies in understanding ________.
24. When assembling a team, managers should look for individuals who ________.
25. Which of the following would a self-managed work team be LEAST likely to do?