Team Building.
Quiz
Answer the following questions.
.1. An organization that seeks in increase the cohesiveness of its teams can
a. communicate a communal perspective to the team by stressing unity.
b. institute a program of group-level rewards rather than individual bonuses.
c. arrange for the teams to undertake enjoyable team challenges, such as backpacking
together.
d. decrease the diversity of the teams.
e. use all the methods listed here to increase cohesion.
2. The organization that tries to improve the effectiveness of its teams by using such team-building
activities as backpacking together or climbing a ropes course is focusing on the team’s
a. shared mental model.
b. degree of cohesion.
c. team learning rates.
d. action processes, such as system monitoring.
e. mission analysis and goal specification.
3. You and your teammates are busy defining your team’s mission, clarifying and prioritizing goals, and
developing strategies and alternative courses of action to reach those goals. Marks, Mathieu, and Zaccaro
would label this element of your group’s coordinated action ___ processing.
a. interpersonal
b. action
c. transition
d. planning
4. Gradually the students, after taking multiple-choice tests as a group for three weeks in a row,
developed ___: a shared representation of the task as well as a shared understanding of the team’s
processes and team members’ strengths.
a. a team mental
model
b. a collective mind
c. synergy
d. teamality
e. groupality
5. Which of the following is NOT a quality that is characteristic of highly effective teams?
a. Teams have leaders who assign tasks to members.
b. Team member actions are coordinated.
c. Teams have collective goals, meaning that success and failure occurs at the group level.
d. Team members are highly interdependent rather than self-sufficient.
e. Teams tend to be well structured, in that role, norms, and relations are stable.
6. The two most essential KSAs needed for effective team members are
a. Skills related to the team’s tasks and skill in working with others.
b. A positive, optimistic outlook and positive achievement orientation.
c. Concern for self and concern for others.
d. Expressive communication skills and listening skills.
e. Leadership skills and followership skills.
7. Studies of the relationship between personality and team effectiveness suggest that
a. There is no such thing as a “team player.”
b. Team skills cannot be learned: they are fixed by nature.
c. Emotional stability is the key predictor of team effectiveness.
d. Team outcomes depend on composition, not team members’ personalities.
e. Team effectiveness is most closely associated with agreeableness and
conscientiousness.
8. You are the supervisor of a division in your organization. Your boss assigns you to a new team
composed of representatives from many of the organization’s divisions. The team is tasked with
identifying ways to improve collaboration. Lucky you: you are now a member of a ___ team.
a. work
b. cross-functional
c. project
d. management
e. holacracy
9. At Acme Materials, Inc., the CEO appoints a(n) ___ team, and charges it with developing a specific
action plan for decreasing the negative impact of the organization on the environment; when it delivers its
plan, it will disband.
a. work
b. advisory
c. project
d. management
10. They plan, direct, strategize, integrate, coordinate, and prioritize. They are ___ teams.
a. project
b. advisory
c. management
d. work
11. People turn to groups to perform tasks
a. When the task is beyond the skills and resources of a single person.
b. When the consequences of poor performance would be catastrophic.
c. When the task is so complex that it can only be successfully performed through integrated action.
d. In all the circumstances listed here.
