Section 13A--Teamwork

Question 1

In team environments, we must know the right approaches to building effective teams and cultivating a healthy, dynamic team spirit. What will influence every stage of team development and can ultimately determine whether goals are met?

Answer 1

The spirit in which a team operates

Question 2

What behavior is essential for a team to accomplish its goals?

Answer 2

Positive group member behavior

Question 3

Team members do not often immediately form strong bonds for trust, communication, and cooperation. What do teams experience before rising to the level of becoming highly functional, productive teams?

Answer 3

Stages

Question 4

How can leaders increase team success?

Answer 4

a) giving members complete access to all necessary data
b) Discouraging the discounting of ideas and feelings
c) Encouraging the practice of active listening and valuing individual differences

Question 5

Which team development stage is the initial period of uncertainty in which individuals try to determine their place on a team and establish or accept the procedures and rules of the team?

Answer 5

Forming

Question 6

In which team development stage do members cautiously explore the boundaries of acceptable group behavior in various ways?

Answer 6

Forming

Question 7

Team members may try to rely solely on their experience, thus resisting the need for collaboration with other team members. Regardless of tensions, team members are beginning to understand one another. In which team development stage is this occuring?

Answer 7

Storming

Question 8

During which team development stage to team members establish cohesiveness and commitment, discovering new ways of working together and setting norms for appropriate behavior?

Answer 8

Norming

Question 9

By which team development stage has the team settled its relationships and expectations and can begin diagnosing and solving problems and choosing and implementing changes?

Answer 9

Performing

Question 10

In which team development stage have team members discovered and accepted each others strengths and weaknesses and learned and embraced their roles? The team can be considered to be an effective, cohesive, and productive unit.

Answer 10

Performing

Question 11

At times, managers tend to avoid conflict because of its negative repercussions; however, how does managing it effectively benefit the organization?

Answer 11

By reducing ambiguity and stimulating productivity

Question 12

True or False? The more people interact, the less noticeable their difference become.

Answer 12

False

Question 13

What, whether scarce or under high demand, may generate conflict as each party postures to compete for it?

Answer 13

Resources

Question 14

What is one part of why dealing with line-staff distinctions can lead to disputes?

Answer 14

Partly because although people may attempt to participate, it does not necessarily mean their contributions are heard, valued, or accepted

Question 15

How may Airmen be more aptly willing to change, set aside self-interests, listen to the ideas of others, and reduce conflict?

Answer 15

If Airmen align their personal needs and values with the overall USAF mission

Question 16

What can focusing on diversity through strengths that contribute to the organization in difference ways serve to reduce?

Answer 16

Criticism and conflict

Question 17

Which conflict management style uses and attempt to satisfy the concerns of both sides through honest discussion? It is high assertiveness and high cooperativeness. For it to be successful, trust and openness are required of all participants.

Answer 17

Collaborating

Question 18

Which conflict management style often simply consists of giving in to another persons wishes? It is low assertiveness and high cooperativeness.

Answer 18

Accomodating