Manager's Hot Seat: Working in Teams: Cross-FunctionalDysfunction The Executive Director of Operations has assigned Joe Tanney therole
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Manager's Hot Seat: Working in Teams: Cross-FunctionalDysfunction
The Executive Director of Operations has assigned Joe Tanney therole of Team Leader for a high priority project. The task is togenerate a proposal for streamlining the antiquated blueprintgeneration process. Each office is at different stages ofcomputerization, with different teams preferring differenttechnologies for particular tasks. This makes everything morecomplex – from collaboration to revisions to cost and timemanagement, and is having a serious impact on the company’s bottomline. The team includes Rosa Denson, Cheng Jing, and SimonMahoney.
The team in the video is assigned a specific project and isasked to finish it in a given time. What type of team does thisrepresent?
Multiple Choice
Command groups
Task forces
Self-managed work teams
Research and development teams
Top management teams
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The team members appear to be unmotivated to do team tasks andare avoiding taking responsibility for their work. To improve teammember participation, which element of group dynamics can Joe tryto improve?
Multiple Choice
Group cohesiveness
Groupthink
Group deviance
Group norms
Division of labor
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Joe assigns tasks to each team member individually so that theresponsibilities and contributions are identifiable. By doing thisJoe is reducing
Multiple Choice
synergy.
sequential task interdependence.
reciprocal task interdependence.
social loafing.
groupthink.
Financial Management for Public Health and Not for Profit Organizations
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