Organizational Behavior Improving Performance And Commitment In The Workplace 6th Edition By Colquitt -Test Bank

Chapter 11 Teams: Characteristics and Diversity

1) Management teams are formed to take on “one-time” tasks that are generally complex.

Answer: FALSE
Explanation: Project teams are formed to take on “one-time” tasks that are generally complex.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Work group
Learning Objective: 11-01 What are the five general team types and their defining characteristics?
Bloom’s: Remember
AACSB: Teamwork
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2) On a highly self-managed team, there are strict rules regarding goals, procedures, and roles.

Answer: FALSE
Explanation: When self-management is low, there are strict rules regarding goals, procedures, and roles.
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Self-managed teams
Learning Objective: 11-01 What are the five general team types and their defining characteristics?
Bloom’s: Remember
AACSB: Teamwork
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3) High levels of self-management may be most advantageous for teams where members have high levels of team-relevant knowledge obtained from outside experts and others in their social networks.

Answer: TRUE
Explanation: Research has shown that high levels of self-management may be most advantageous for teams where members have high levels of team-relevant knowledge obtained from outside experts and others in their social networks.
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Self-managed teams
Learning Objective: 11-01 What are the five general team types and their defining characteristics?
Bloom’s: Remember
AACSB: Teamwork
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4) In the storming stage of team development, feelings of solidarity develop as members work toward team goals.

Answer: FALSE
Explanation: Storming is where the members remain committed to ideas they bring with them to the team. In norming, feelings of solidarity develop as members work toward team goals.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Team building
Learning Objective: 11-01 What are the five general team types and their defining characteristics?
Bloom’s: Remember
AACSB: Teamwork
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5) Jan works on the budget team. Members include the bookkeeper who tracks the daily expenditures and revenues of the company; the accountant who takes the bookkeeper’s work and organizes it into financial statements, including the cash flow statement, the income statement, and the balance sheet; and the analyst who interprets the financial statements. Once these three tasks have been accomplished, Jan prepares and presents the results to top management. Jan’s team engages in reciprocal interdependence.

Answer: FALSE
Explanation: This team engages in sequential interdependence. Each step must be completed before the next step can begin. In sequential interdependence, the member performing the task in the latter part of the sequence depends on the member performing the task in the earlier part of the sequence, but not the other way around.
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Task performance
Learning Objective: 11-02 What are the three general types of team interdependence?
Bloom’s: Understand
AACSB: Knowledge Application
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6) In sequential interdependence, the member performing the task in the latter part of the sequence depends on the member performing the task in the earlier part of the sequence, but not the other way around.

Answer: TRUE
Explanation: In sequential interdependence, the member performing the task in the latter part of the sequence depends on the member performing the task in the earlier part of the sequence, but not the other way around.
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Task performance
Learning Objective: 11-02 What are the three general types of team interdependence?
Bloom’s: Remember
AACSB: Teamwork
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7) A high degree of goal interdependence exists when team members have a shared vision of the team’s goal and align their individual goals with that vision as a result.

Answer: TRUE
Explanation: A high degree of goal interdependence exists when team members have a shared vision of the team’s goal and align their individual goals with that vision as a result.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Team building
Learning Objective: 11-02 What are the three general types of team interdependence?
Bloom’s: Remember
AACSB: Teamwork
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8) As the level of task interdependence increases, members must spend increasing amounts of time communicating and coordinating with other members if they want to complete tasks effectively.

Answer: TRUE
Explanation: As the level of task interdependence increases, members must spend increasing amounts of time communicating and coordinating with other members to complete tasks.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Task performance
Learning Objective: 11-02 What are the three general types of team interdependence?
Bloom’s: Remember
AACSB: Teamwork
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9) Cognitive ability is more important to teams when team members have to learn from one another to adapt to unexpected changes, compared with contexts in which team members perform their assigned tasks in a routine fashion.

Answer: TRUE
Explanation: Cognitive ability is more important to teams when team members have to learn from one another to adapt to unexpected changes, compared with contexts in which team members perform their assigned tasks in a routine fashion.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Team building
Learning Objective: 11-03 What factors are involved in team composition?
Bloom’s: Remember
AACSB: Teamwork
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10) Cora frequently challenges the teams’ assumptions and status quo. Accordingly, she exhibits the devil’s advocate role.

Answer: TRUE
Explanation: A devil’s advocate does not allow the team to become complacent. This person challenges the status quo and may be most important when the stakes for the team are high.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Devil’s advocacy
Learning Objective: 11-03 What factors are involved in team composition?
Bloom’s: Understand
AACSB: Knowledge Application
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation