MAN 4046 TEAM DYNAMICS & GROUP
EFFECTIVENESS FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
100% CORRECT ANSWERS
\.Which of the following is not one of the three essential conditions for team
success as presented in the text?
a. Trust
b. Time management
c. Group identity
d. Group efficacy - ANSWERS-b. Time management
\.When team members are willing to rely upon each other, they have established:
a. Trust
b. Group identity
c. Team coordination
d. Task integration - ANSWERS-a. Trust
\.Which of the following characteristics of members is not related to their
trustworthiness?
a. Competence
b. Benevolence
,c. Integrity
d. Competitiveness - ANSWERS-d. Competitiveness
\.What is the most important factor that determines whether a group will have
high group efficacy for a given task?
a. The leader must feel the group is capable of success.
b. Group members must feel they have what it takes to succeed in the task.
c. Group members must be generally optimistic.
d. Members must form interpersonal bonds outside of the task group. -
ANSWERS-b. Group members must feel they have what it takes to succeed in the
task.
\.As the team leader, Janice used meeting agendas and made sure each member
knew what was expected of them. In addition, she created a list of all the major
tasks for the project and assigned roles to each of her team members. What
aspect of creating an ideal team climate best describes Janice's actions?
a. Shared vision
b. Task orientation
c. Open communication
d. Support for innovation - ANSWERS-b. Task orientation
\.Teams that are committed to the effective use of meeting time are
demonstrating which of the characteristics of an ideal team climate?
a. Open communication
b. Task orientation
,c. Shared vision
d. Support for innovation - ANSWERS-b. Task orientation
\.Which of the following aspects of team climate is related to participative safety?
a. Members feel free to participate in group discussions and decisions.
b. Team members are not afraid of being fired from the group.
c. The room that the team meets is locked and secure.
d. The leader shares power with the team. - ANSWERS-a. Members feel free to
participate in group discussions and decisions.
\.Group norms such as the way meetings are run, how people perform their task
roles, and how members communicate with each other are refined during the
__________ stage of development.
a. Forming
b. Storming
c. Norming
d. Performing - ANSWERS-c. Norming
\.According to Tuckman's stages of group development, the beginning stage of a
group is known as ________ and the ending stage is ________.
a. Forming and norming
b. Adjourning and storming
c. Norming and performing
d. Forming and adjourning - ANSWERS-d. Forming and adjourning
, \.For Gersick's model of group development, in what stage of group development
would she see the most stability?
a. Dependency and Inclusion
b. Norming
c. Trust and Structure
d. All of the Above - ANSWERS-a. Dependency and Inclusion
\.According to Wheelan model of group development, which stage could be most
closely associated with the forming stage of Tuckman's group development stage
theory?
a. Trust and Structure
b. Counterdependency and Fight
c. Dependency and Inclusion
d. Work and Productivity - ANSWERS-a. Trust and Structure
\.In Gersick's model of group development, after the first meeting teams remain
fairly stable until:
a. The third meeting
b. The midpoint of the project
c. The end of the project
d. None of the above - ANSWERS-b. The midpoint of the project
\.Mackenzie's team is meeting after a pretty bad fight between two team
members. Since then, the two team members have apologized to one another,
EFFECTIVENESS FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
100% CORRECT ANSWERS
\.Which of the following is not one of the three essential conditions for team
success as presented in the text?
a. Trust
b. Time management
c. Group identity
d. Group efficacy - ANSWERS-b. Time management
\.When team members are willing to rely upon each other, they have established:
a. Trust
b. Group identity
c. Team coordination
d. Task integration - ANSWERS-a. Trust
\.Which of the following characteristics of members is not related to their
trustworthiness?
a. Competence
b. Benevolence
,c. Integrity
d. Competitiveness - ANSWERS-d. Competitiveness
\.What is the most important factor that determines whether a group will have
high group efficacy for a given task?
a. The leader must feel the group is capable of success.
b. Group members must feel they have what it takes to succeed in the task.
c. Group members must be generally optimistic.
d. Members must form interpersonal bonds outside of the task group. -
ANSWERS-b. Group members must feel they have what it takes to succeed in the
task.
\.As the team leader, Janice used meeting agendas and made sure each member
knew what was expected of them. In addition, she created a list of all the major
tasks for the project and assigned roles to each of her team members. What
aspect of creating an ideal team climate best describes Janice's actions?
a. Shared vision
b. Task orientation
c. Open communication
d. Support for innovation - ANSWERS-b. Task orientation
\.Teams that are committed to the effective use of meeting time are
demonstrating which of the characteristics of an ideal team climate?
a. Open communication
b. Task orientation
,c. Shared vision
d. Support for innovation - ANSWERS-b. Task orientation
\.Which of the following aspects of team climate is related to participative safety?
a. Members feel free to participate in group discussions and decisions.
b. Team members are not afraid of being fired from the group.
c. The room that the team meets is locked and secure.
d. The leader shares power with the team. - ANSWERS-a. Members feel free to
participate in group discussions and decisions.
\.Group norms such as the way meetings are run, how people perform their task
roles, and how members communicate with each other are refined during the
__________ stage of development.
a. Forming
b. Storming
c. Norming
d. Performing - ANSWERS-c. Norming
\.According to Tuckman's stages of group development, the beginning stage of a
group is known as ________ and the ending stage is ________.
a. Forming and norming
b. Adjourning and storming
c. Norming and performing
d. Forming and adjourning - ANSWERS-d. Forming and adjourning
, \.For Gersick's model of group development, in what stage of group development
would she see the most stability?
a. Dependency and Inclusion
b. Norming
c. Trust and Structure
d. All of the Above - ANSWERS-a. Dependency and Inclusion
\.According to Wheelan model of group development, which stage could be most
closely associated with the forming stage of Tuckman's group development stage
theory?
a. Trust and Structure
b. Counterdependency and Fight
c. Dependency and Inclusion
d. Work and Productivity - ANSWERS-a. Trust and Structure
\.In Gersick's model of group development, after the first meeting teams remain
fairly stable until:
a. The third meeting
b. The midpoint of the project
c. The end of the project
d. None of the above - ANSWERS-b. The midpoint of the project
\.Mackenzie's team is meeting after a pretty bad fight between two team
members. Since then, the two team members have apologized to one another,
