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Questions
1. If a group of women get together during their lunch hour to crochet, this is an interest group, which is considered to be a(n) ________.
informal group
command group
formal group
task group
2. What is the definition of a command group?
A formal group determined by an organization's hierarchal chart and composed of individuals reporting to a particular manager.
An informal group that has come together to attain a common objective
A formal group that has been brought together to make a particular task.
An informal group that has assembled to share common ideals, interests and other similarities.
3. What is the term for a formal group, created with formal authority within an organization, that's usually temporary and set up for a particular purpose?
A command group.
A committee.
A task force.
An interest group.
4. Which of the following statements best describes a group that's in the norming stage of the five-stage model for group development?
They have completed their task and have gone their separate ways.
The group has met, worked together, and have started to understand how they can achieve success as a group.
They have only just been introduced to each other and do not yet completely understand their purpose.
They are experiencing conflict, with each other and over who will be the group's leader.
5. In reference to the five-stage model for group development, what's the difference between a temporary group and a permanent group?
Temporary groups usually don't make it past the performing stage because then they need to disband.
Temporary groups move all the way through the adjourning stage, and permanent groups stop in the performing stage.
There is no difference in how temporary and permanent groups move through the five-stage process of group development.
Temporary groups stop in the performing stage and permanent groups move all the way through the adjourning stage.
6. Mariona is managing a group, and her team member Christopher's confusion might jeopardize the group's success. Christopher has a particular view on how he is supposed to act in his role, and that view is not on target. He needs to reevaluate his ________.
Role conflict
Role identity
Role expectations
Role perception
7. Lauren wants to be a part of the elite team at work that goes out in the field and solves problems for their customer-facing locations. All the members of this special team have come up through the ranks of the operations department, and all of them are MBAs. Lauren is now getting her MBA and has applied for a position in the ops department. This is an example of ________.
assimilation.
deviant behavior.
conformity.
a reference group.
8. High performance norms drives high productivity when what other condition exists?
Role expectations
Cohesiveness
Conformity
Status
9. When making a choice between group and individual, you should be aware of what phenomenon, marked by individuals exerting less effort in a group format than they would on their own?
Decision fatigue
Performance norming
Conformity
Social loafing
10. A group of employees at a company that manufactures DVD players are unwilling to consider new alternatives to advance in the industry. The employees may collectively live in a world where they can't understand why DVD players are not selling and may refuse to acknowledge the economic reality that they cannot survive without adjusting their product selection to accommodate for streaming services. This is an example of ________.
decision making fatigue.
groupshift.
conformity.
groupthink.
11. A group comprised of extraverted individuals is, according to the findings of Francesca Gino, best led by what kind of manager?
It doesn't matter whether the manager was introverted or extroverted.
An extroverted manager
An introverted manager
A team should not be comprised of only extroverted individuals.