Reference no: EM132231563

1. Which of the following is true of teams?

A team consists of two or more people who work independently, with distinct goals and strategies.

Groups are formed with a specific purpose in mind, while teams do not have a specific goal.

A team works over some time period to accomplish common goals related to some task-oriented purpose.

The members of a team operate relatively independently of each other, and other members are not essential to their accomplishment of goals.

Interactions among members within teams are more personal and informal than interactions between people in groups.

2. Coasting on the group effort is termed ________.

positivity offset

social loafing

cognitive dissonance

self-concordance

emotional labor

3. You need to hire an analyst for an important project team. It is essential that the new employee work well on the already established team in order to meet the project's challenging deadlines. The most talented candidate doesn't have any team experience and when asked in the interview about his team experience he replied, "I prefer to work alone. I'm much more efficient alone." What should you do?

Hire him and train him.

Look for a different candidate.

Hire him and assign him a mentor.

Hire him and hope that he learns.

Hire him and redesign the job.

4. Eva is not getting the results she needs from her data base administration team. She believes that this problem is occurring because the administration team is a virtual team. Which of the following is one of the things that Eva should do to create an effective virtual team?

Allow more independence among members.

Conduct training for improving interpersonal skills.

Avoid publicizing team successes company-wide.

Include peer evaluation in the appraisal system.

Monitor progress of the team closely.

5. Alberto's team is evaluating and developing the database for the water pollution data of three cities. He wants to improve the team efficacy of his team. Which of the following actions can Alberto take to increase team efficacy before the project starts?

spend considerable time evaluating team members and allocating proper roles for each

plan a team outing for the team members

make sure that his team is not comprised of more than nine people

provide client's software and database training for all the team members

create team goals that are very challenging