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32 Cards in this Set
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________: This may be defined as two or more people who interact with each other to accomplish certain goals or meet certain needs.
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A Group
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________: A group whose members work intensely with one another to achieve a specific common goal or objective.
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A Team
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_______: Performance gains that result when individuals and departments coordinate their efforts.
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Synergy
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The belief that "The whole is more than the sum of its parts" has to do with the concept of _________?
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Synergy
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All teams are _____, but not all ______ are _______.
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All teams are GROUPS, but not all GROUPS, are TEAMS.
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This distinguishes teams from groups (two things).
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1.) The intensity with which team members work together.
2.) The presence of a team goal or objective. |
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What was the belief of Jeff Bezo and the "Pizza Teams?"
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No team should need more than two people to feed its members. No group should be more than 5 - 7 people.
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______: In these groups, those managers establish to achieve organizational goals.
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Formal Groups
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These types of groups are cross-functional teams composed of members from different departments and cross cultural teams.
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Formal Groups
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_______: A group that managers or non-managerial employees form to help achieve their own goals or meet their own needs.
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Informal Groups
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Four nurses that work in a hospital together and eat lunch together and eat lunch together twice a week.
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Informal Groups
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_______: These teams are composed of top management that is responsible for developing the strategies that result in an organization's competitive advantage.
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Top Management Groups
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_______: Subordinates who report to the same supervisor.
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Command Groups
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These types of groups are also called DEPARTMENTS or UNITS and perform a significant amount of the work in many organizations.
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Command Groups
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_______: These teams have members that rarely ever meet face to face but rather, interact by using various forms of information technology such as e-mail, text, computer networks, fax, etc.
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Virtual Teams
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________: A committee of managers or non-managerial employees from various departments or divisions who meet to solve a specific mutual problem.
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Ad Hoc Committee/ Task Force
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Task forces that are relatively permanent are called what?
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Task Forces
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The number of members in a group is called what?
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Group Size
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What are some advantages of large groups (Two things)?
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1.) They have more resources
2.) Division of Labor |
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Splitting the work to be performed into particular tasks and assigning tasks of individual workers.
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Division of Labor
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What are the five stages of group development?
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1.) Forming
2.) Storming 3.) Norming 4.) Performing 5.) Adjourning |
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In this stage, members try to get to know one another and reach a common understanding of what the group is trying to accomplish and how members should behave.
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Forming Stage
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In this stage, members experience conflict and disagreements because some members do not wish to submit to the demands of other group members.
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Storming Stage
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In this stage, close ties between members form and feelings of friendship and camaraderie emerge. Group members also arrive at a consensus about what goals they should strive to achieve.
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Norming Stage
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In this stage, the real work of the group gets accomplished.
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Performing Stage
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This stage only applies to groups that eventually are disbanded, such as task forces. The groups is dispersed in this stage. The project may or may not be finished.
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Adjourning Stage
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These are shared guidelines or rules for behavior that most group members follow.
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Group Norms
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The degree to which members are attracted to or loyal to their group.
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Group Cohesiveness
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What are three outcomes of group cohesiveness?
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1.) Level of Participation within a group increases
2.) Level of conformity to group norms 3.) Emphasis on group goal accomplishment |
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What are three factors that lead to group cohesiveness?
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1.) Group Size
2.) Effectively Managed Diversity 3.) Group Identity and Healthy Competition |
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_____: The tendency of individuals to put forth less effort when they work in groups than when they work alone.
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Social Loafing
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What are three ways to reduce social loafing?
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1.) Make individual contributions to a group identifiable.
2.) Emphasize the valuable contributions of individual members 3.) Keep group size at an appropriate level |
