siete Flashcards
Transformational leadership represents the carrot-and-stick approach to leadership.
False.
When a company is attempting to change its culture, they want a CEO whose leadership style closely matches the company’s culture.
False.
Mediation occurs when a third party determines a binding settlement to a dispute.
False.
High cognitive ability has a strong correlation with increased..
task performance, especially in complex and demanding jobs.
Team reward structures with hybrid outcome interdependence reward members based on
how well they perform as individuals rather than overall team performance.
False.
The product design team at cell phone maker Sapling, Inc., has had a fantastic string of successes over the past four years. The first phone it released helped Sapling dominate the
marketplace with its line of powerful and highly photo-capable devices. Lately, however, the team’s manager, Serena, notices that the team seems content to rest on its laurels and bask in past glories. The team spends a good deal of time in meetings tracking the sales of last year’s model
and speculating about how big everyone’s bonus will be. In the team’s early days, the
ergonomics specialist, Fritz, and the audio designer, Astrid, would argue over the ideal placement of the headphone jack and built-in speakers, but now they have built a strong bond and constantly agree with the other’s proposals. With respect to group cohesion, which of the following approaches should Serena adopt to restore the team’s capacity for innovation?
hire a consultant to attend team meetings and ask challenging questions when ideas stagnate.
In a project team at Kaizen International, everyone focuses on his or her specialty and what they do best. Members know exactly where they can go to get information when there are
gaps in their knowledge, and this team produces synergistic results. This shows that the project
team at Kaizen has an effective..
Transactive memory.
