Competency 3: Teams and Team Building

Chapter 10 - Understanding Work Teams

Work teams generate a potential for an organization to generate greater outputs with no increase in inputs, while work groups cannot perform this function.

Which of the following accurately differentiates between work groups and work teams?

In the case of self-managed work teams, supervisory positions take on decreased importance.

Which of the following statements is true regarding self-managed work teams?

Which of the following statements is true regarding size of teams?

When teams have excess members, cohesiveness declines.

increase team efficiency

Helping the team achieve small successes

Work should be performed by an individual if ________.

The work is simple and does not require diverse input.