Entre Q1: Communication

What is group cohesiveness?

The attractiveness of a team to its members.

Bob and Megan join a team to improve product quality and reduce waste. What type of team is this?

Problem-solving team.

True or false: People who play blocking roles are generally good at building consensus.

False.

What team performs shared tasks and makes decisions previously made by supervisors?

Self-managing team.

What benefits come from effective employee communication?

Better marketing messages, stronger business relationships, and lower employee turnover.

What document should college teammates create before starting a project?

A team charter.

True or false: Team members must communicate for a team to succeed.

True.

What should you do instead of immediately sending a large email attachment?

Extract relevant text and ask whether the recipient wants the full document.

What team consists of geographically dispersed workers who interact electronically?

Virtual team.

Jan provides information when others need it and requests information when she needs it. What role does she perform?

Task facilitator.

What happens when teammates encourage each other to do their best?

Collective results improve.

Which leadership behavior is unhelpful?

Letting members work without checking what they are doing or how the work is going.

What is groupthink?

The tendency to conform to group pressure when making decisions.

Grainger Solutions has employees in seven states who collaborate electronically. What type of team is this?

Virtual team.

What contributes to effective teamwork?

Members depend on each other.

Which is not essential to team effectiveness: trust, encouragement, better group performance, or knowing each other for a long time?

Knowing each other for a long time.

What is poor advice for college team projects?

Getting the project done correctly and on time matters more than the experience gained from teamwork.

Why do members of a working group primarily meet?

To share information.

What is a team?

People with complementary skills who work together regularly toward a common goal.

What is communication?

The exchange of information from a sender to a receiver.