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Teams have which of the following features?

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Exist to fulfill some purpose

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Only $$A$$ and $$C$$

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Perceive themselves as a social entity

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All of the above

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Two or more people

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Social loafing can be minimized by doing which of the following?

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Creating tasks where each member's contribution is pooled.

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Selecting team members with a highly individualistic value orientation.

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Making the work less interesting to the social loafer and other team members.

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Adding more people to the team

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Monitoring individual performance

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Team success, team size, and member similarity are three:

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of the main factors influencing team cohesiveness.

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ways to change team norms.

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elements of the organizational and team environment

d$.$

Of the main causes of social loafing.

e$.$

ways to minimize teambuilding.

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A diverse team is better than a homogeneous team:

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on tasks requiring a high degree of cooperation

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in situations where the team must reach the performing stage of team development quickly.

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on complex projects and tasks requiring innovative solutions.

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Never; heterogeneous teams are always less effective than homogeneous teams.

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in every organizational activity.

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Production employees working on an assembly line usually have which of the following types of task interdependence?

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Pooled interdependence

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Reciprocal interdependence

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Total independence

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Sequential interdependence

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Straight$-$line interdependence

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The primary objective of team building is to:

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accelerate the team development process.

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encourage all team members to experience lower cohesiveness

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help the team discover and remove members guilty of social loafing.

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help the team move from a homogeneous to a more heterogeneous composition

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determine whether the team should accept more tasks.

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The degree of attraction people feel toward the team and their motivation to remain members is called:

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social loafing.

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task interdependence

c$.$

team development.

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task interdependence

e$.$

team heterogeneity.

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In organizational settings, power is defined as:

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the extent to which one person is required to follow another person$$s commands even though he or she does not want to follow those commands.

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the act of changing another person$$s attitudes and behaviours.

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the capacity to influence others

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the practice of trying to influence another person.

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any situation where one person is dependent on another person, who is not at all dependent on the first person.

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Employees have LESS power in the organization when:

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their work has an immediate impact on organizational effectiveness.

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their work is central to the organization$$s goals.

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their work reduces organizational uncertainty.

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they are able to help the organization to secure scarce resources.

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their work can be outsourced

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Jeff wants to punish a subordinate that he personally dislikes. However, the subordinate fulfils all his job duties and produces excellent work. Both Jeff and the subordinate are governed by very comprehensive policies and rules negotiated by a union in a collective agreement. Which contingency does Jeff lack thereby preventing him from to punishing the subordinate?

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Centrality

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Counterproductive power

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Discretion

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Visibility

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Non$-$substitutability

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Which of the following is NOT identified in the textbook as a form of influence?

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Pleading

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Persuasion

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Ingratiation

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Upward appeal

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Informatio