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Questions

1. The first meeting of the new management team for Gamma Systems was fairly challenging. Managers came in late, body language was disinterested, multiple conversations happened at once, and individuals seemed to be fighting to see who could dominate the conversation for longer. According to Cardona and Miller in 'Leadership in Work Teams,' the team was experiencing which of the following, and what remedy would Cardona and Miller primarily recommend?

a. Warming; Promote Shared Objectives

b. Storming; Promote Authoritative Pecking Order

c. Norming; Promote Individual Objectives

d. Storming; Promote Shared Objectives

e. Norming; Promote Authoritative Pecking Order

2. In 'How Unethical Are You,' Banaji tells a story about a judge who spent a vacation week in a different municipal court where the defendants were mostly of a different racial background than the defendants in her own municipality. The judge did this to guard against the biases she was likely forming regarding the defendants she worked with in her own court. This example relates to which of the following management strategies from Banaji et al.?

a. Vigilance

b. Transactional Cohesion

c. Shaping Your Environment

d. Only b) and c) above.

e. Only a) and c) above.

3. According to Sucher in "Differences at Work: The Individual Experience," why do people who experience stereotype threat likely fulfill the stereotype?

a) They lack self-confidence.

b) They overreact to negative points of view.

c) They have low expectations for their own performance.

d) They fear others will misperceive their performance.

e) They tend to perform better in the face of the stereotype.