MIDTERMS LESSON 1 BASIC TEAM PROCESSES

Question 1

Team’s motivation depends on the following multiple factors:

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• the task it performs
• how performance will be evaluated and rewarded
• the team’s belief in its ability to succeed
• the team members’ sense of commitment or belonging.

Question 2

It is meaningful when it provides the opportunity to use a variety of skills, to complete an entire piece of work from beginning to end, and to affect others with its completion

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Task

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satisfying job creates three critical psychological states

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• experienced meaningfulness
• responsibility for outcomes
• knowledge of results.

Question 4

These are distribution of skills among team members and the work processes of the team

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Task interdependence

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This encourages the members that their contributions to the team are indispensable, unique, and valuable, thereby making them more willing to put effort into the team’s task.

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Task interdependence

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this kind of reward system is necessary to encourage both a commitment to the team and an incentive for individual performance

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A balance of individual- and team-based rewards

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The group’s structural integrity, including normative coherence, clarity of roles, and strength and density of relationships linking members.

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Structural cohesion

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Group-based emotions, including pride, esprit de corps (fellowship), and overall affective intensity.

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Emotional cohesion

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Unity based on shared identity and belonging.

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Collective cohesion

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A shared commitment among members to achieve a goal and the resulting capacity to perform successfully as a coordinated unit.

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Task cohesion

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The attraction of members to one another and to the group as a whole.

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Social cohesion

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includes a commitment to the task that the team is performing.

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Group cohesiveness

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Members like the task the team is performing, enjoy working together on the task, have personal involvement in the task, and take pride in the team’s performance.

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Commitment

Question 14

what are the Multi level process of cohesion?

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• individual-level attraction

* group-level attraction

Question 15

, people remain members even when specific members leave the group

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group-level attraction

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when those who are liked leave the group, the remaining members are more likely to quit

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individual-level attraction

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the perception that the team is capable of performing well at a given task.

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Team efficacy

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is the perception that the team is capable of successfully performing across various tasks

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Team potency

Question 19

TRUE OR FALSE. Increasing a sense of team efficacy helps increase motivation.

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TRUE

Question 20

TRUE OR FALSE. Teams with higher collective efficacy have higher levels of motivation to perform, greater staying power when they encounter difficulties and setbacks, and improved performance

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TRUE

Question 21

TRUE OR FALSE. Teams that have been successful in the past have lower levels of team efficacy.

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FALSE

Question 22

TRUE OR FALSE. Leaders who believe their team is competent, create teams with higher collective efficacy.

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TRUE

Question 23

TRUE OR FALSE. Teams with lower collective efficacy are more likely to set higher performance goals, which encourage greater performance (Goncalo, Polman, & Maslach, 2010).

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FALSE

Question 24

TRUE OR FALSE. Teams with a group identity, whose members more low value their membership in the team, also have greater team efficacy.

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FALSE

Question 25

The belief, shared among a substantial portion of the group members, that the group is capable of organizing and executing the actions required to attain the group’s goals and successfully complete its tasks.

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Collective efficacy

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“final states or objectives may be reached in different ways and from disparate starting points”

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principle of equifinality

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the potential to reach a given end state through any one of a number of means.

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Equifinality

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A conceptual analysis that explains the extreme self-sacrifice (such as heroism in the face of danger and terrorism) that sometimes occurs when individual identity is fused with group identity.

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Identity fusion theory

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A conceptual analysis of cohesion that assumes members of groups develop stronger ties to groups that are perceived to be sources of positive feelings or emotions and weaker ties to those perceived to be sources of negative feelings or emotions

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Relational cohesion theory

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The unity of a group that derives from the group’s structural integrity, including normative coherence, clarity of roles, and strength and density of relationships linking members.

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Structural cohesion

Question 31

A conceptual analysis of group development that assumes the focus of a group shifts back and forth between the group’s tasks and the interpersonal relationships among group members.

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Equilibrium model

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A group development theory that assumes groups change gradually over time but that the periods of slow growth are punctuated by brief periods of relatively rapid change.

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Punctuated equilibrium model