OB Test 3 Chp 10 T/F – Flashcards

71) More and more organizations are resorting to teams as they represent a better way to use employee talents.

72) Teams and traditional departments have the same level of flexibility and responsiveness to external changes.

73) The goal of a work group is to share information.

74) Nancy is a part of a group at work which stresses a lot on collective goals and performance. Nancy is amazed at how well the members of the team use their skills to benefit themselves and their team members. Whenever a problem arises, the team, as a whole, provides reasons and solutions for the same. She enjoys working in this group as there is a lot of positive energy. This group that Nancy is a part of is a work group.

75) Problem-solving teams discuss a problem, generate potential solutions, and implement them successfully.

76) In self-managed teams, supervisory positions may be eliminated.

77) Cross-functional teams consist of employees from about the same hierarchical level, but from different work areas, who come together to accomplish a task.

78) Low levels of virtuality in teams result in higher levels of information sharing.

79) A climate of trust among team members is a contextual factor relating to team effectiveness.

80) FDS is a government agency which holds its yearly appraisals in December and provides employees with merit-based incentives based on their individual performance ratings. Merit is the only criterion for incentives at FDS and this is likely to have a strong positive impact on group performance.

81) Lower-ability teams are more adaptable to changing situations than high-ability teams.

82) Conscientiousness and openness to experience are two personality dimensions of the Big Five personality model that predict better performance in teams.

83) Research has shown that the larger the team, the more effective its performance.

84) When teams have excess members, cohesiveness and mutual accountability decline.

85) Social loafing illustrates a process gain from using teams.

86) Specificity refers to the degree to which a team reflects on and adjusts its master plan when necessary.

87) For creating good team players, an organization's reward system must be reworked to encourage competitive efforts rather than cooperative ones.

88) Problems such as lack of trust or lack of sharing information among team members in a competitive group can be swiftly changed by rewarding collective performance over individual performance.

89) Work that creates a common purpose or set of goals, must be assigned to individuals, not groups.

90) Using teams makes sense when the assignment involves independent tasks.