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1. Which are usually larger, groups or teams?
2. Give one reason the New England Patriots is a successful team.
3. One study found that NBA teams with a high shared experience and a low turnover tended to have significantly better win-loss records. Why?
4. Why is diversity important to group composition?
5. Why are objectives important to groups?
6. How do groups enforce norms?
7. Recall the study cited in the text that examined the performance of eight U.S. teams in the 1996 Olympics at Atlanta. What was the reason given that four of the teams failed to meet expectations?
8. Does members' commitment to the group continue to increase through the first four stages of group development?
9. Are the four functions of management equally important to both groups and teams?
10. Why is it important to keep records of meeting assignments?
11. Describe the five types of problem members in meetings. How do they cause problems?
12. What are four reasons that volunteers gave for volunteering to work at the 2004 Athens Olympics?
13. Describe the team structure for a volunteering effort you have been involved with at your college.
14. Which lesson of the geese is most lacking and needed in teams today? Why?
15. Is it really worth making a distinction between groups and teams? Why or why not?
16. Which part of the group performance model is the most important to high levels of performance? Why?
17. Select any type of group (work, school, sport) that you belong to or have belonged to in the past. Explain how each of the group's five structure components affected its performance.
18. Select any type of group you belong to or have belonged to in the past. Explain how each of the group's six group process components affected its performance.
19. Based on your experience in meetings, and what you have read and heard from others, which part of planning a meeting is most lacking?
20. Which type of group problem member is most annoying to you? Why? How can you better work with this type in the future?