10 Creating Effective Teams

Question 1

Define

freelancing

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typically solo work of people who are highly specialized in their fields and can provide expertise to organizations on a short-term basis

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Question 2

Define

hive

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freelancers form teams with other freelancers from complementary specialties to present a cohesive working unit

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Question 3

List

dimensions of team effectiveness model

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• Context
• Composition
• Process
  leads to team effectiveness

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Factors determining team success

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• adequate resources
• leadership and structure
• climiate of trust
• performance evaluation and reward system

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Question 5

List important factors in

Team Composition

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• abilities of members
• personality of members

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Question 6

Suppose an org needs 20 teams of 4 people

They have 40 highly conscientious people and 40 who score low on scientiousness

Would the organization be better off:
1. forming 10 teams of highly conscientious people and 10 teams of members low on conscientiousness
2. seeding each team with 2 people who scored high and 2 who scored low on conscientiousness

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option 1:
performance across the teams will be higher if the organization forms 10 highly conscientious teams and 10 teams low in conscientiousness.

reason:
a team with varying degrees of conscientiousness will not work at peak perfromance because of the diversity principle

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Question 7

Identify

Key Roles of Teams

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• creator
• adviser
• linker
• maintainer
• promoter
• assessor
• producer
• controller
• organizer

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Question 8

Define

role of adviser

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Encourages the search for more information

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Question 9

Define

role of linker

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coordinates and integrates

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Question 10

Define

role of maintainer

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fights external battles

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Question 11

Define

role of creator

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initiates creative ideas

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Question 12

Define

role of promoter

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champions ideas after they’re initiated

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Question 13

Define

role of assessor

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offers insightful analysis of options

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Question 14

Define

role of producer

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provides direction and follow through

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Question 15

Define

role of organizer

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provides structure

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Question 16

Define

role of controller

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examines details and enforces rules

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Question 17

Define

organizational demography

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The degree to which members of a work unit share a common demographic attribute, such:
* age
* sex
* race
* educational elvel
* length of service in an organization;

and the impact this attribute has on turnover.

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Question 18

Fill in the blank

Two meta-analytic reviews show that demographic diversity is essentially ____ to team performance.

a. positively
b. negatively
c. unrelated

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c. unrelated to team performance

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Question 19

Number

Psychologist George Miller claimed that “the magical number [is] …”

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seven, plus or minus two

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Question 20

Complete the sentence

Managers often err by making teams too …

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large

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Equation

Effects of Groups Processes

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Question 22

Fill in the blank

Effective teams show ____, meaning they reflect on and adjust their purpose when necessary

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reflexivity

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Question 23

Define

reflexivity

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A team characteristic of reflecting on and adjusting the master plan when necessary

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Question 24

Define

team efficacy

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A team’s collective belief that they can succeed at their tasks

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Question 25

Define

team identity

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A team member’s affinity for and sense of belongingness to his or her team

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Question 26

Define

team cohesion

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A situation when team members are emotionally attached to one another and motivated toward the team because of their attachment

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Question 27

Define

mental model

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Team members’ knowledge and beliefs about how the work gets done by the team.

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Question 28

Define

action teams

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teams with sepcialist engaged in intense, interdependent, and unpredictable tasks

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Question 29

List

two types of conflict in the organization

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• relationship conflicts
• task conflict

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Question 30

How can organizations create team players?

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Manager should consider trying:
* selecting: hiring team players
* training: creating team players
* rewarding: providing incentives to be a good team player

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Question 31

inidividual or team

How to determine when and which is best?

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Apply three tests:
1. Can the work be done better by more than one person?
2. Does the work create a common purpose or set of goals?
3. Are the members of the group interdependent

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Question 32

What can management do to increase team efficacy?

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• help the team achieve small successes the build confidence
• provide training to improve members’ technical and interpersonal skills

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Question 33

Type of team

fostering team identity is especially important in this type of team

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virtual teams

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Question 34

List ways

to prevent decline in team cohesion

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• foster high levels of interdependence
• foster high-quality interpersonal interactions

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Question 35

List ways

to increase team cohesion

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• higher in teams with female leaders when they are larger and more functionally diverse
• higher in teams with shared leadership

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