ELab (the "E" stands for experience) has project teams perform field research for its clients. One
team had to spend time riding in the back seat of a squad car, accompanying cops on drug raids, as
part of research for a new communications device for police departments. Another team studied
how people get sick with a cold to create a new overthecounter cold remedy. Often clients give
team members extremely ambitious goals which the team members initially have no idea how to
solve. In other words, project teams are given ____.
Correct
Answer: stretch goals
____ occurs when workers withhold their efforts and fail to perform their share of the work.
Correct
Answer: Social loafing
____ describes the average level of ability, experience, personality, or any other factor on a team.
Correct Answer:
Team level
Which of the following is one of the stages that teams pass through as they develop and grow,
rather than decline?
Correct
Answer: performing
Which of the following types of teams has the authority to change their composition as well as all
of their tasks and work methods?
Correct Answer:
,A(n) ____ is defined as a team composed of geographically and/or organizationally dispersed
coworkers who use telecommunications and information technologies to accomplish an
organizational task.
Correct
Answer: virtual team
____ is the extent to which team members are attracted to a team and motivated to remain
with it.
Correct
Answer: Cohesiveness
Question 9
0 out of 3 points
A group in Great Britain has been established to improve the employment, retention, and
promotion prospects of black and other ethnic minorities as well as women in the Fire and
Rescue Service, which at present has a largely white, male demographic. At its inception, this
group was in the ____ stage of team development.
Answer
Selected
Answer: storming
Correct Answer:
forming
Question 10
3 out of 3 points
The ____ is created to complete specific, onetime projects or tasks within a limited time.
Answer
Selected
Answer:
project team
, Correct Answer:
project team
Question 11
3 out of 3 points
An organization engaged in ____ its work team members is training them in how to do all or
most of the jobs performed by the other team members.
Answer
Selected
Answer:
cross training
Correct Answer:
cross training
Question 12
0 out of 3 points
The highest level of team autonomy is found in ____.
Answer
Selected Answer:
Correct Answer:
selfdesigning teams
Question 13
3 out of 3 points
The least amount of team autonomy is found in ____.
Answer
Selected Answer:
, Correct Answer:
traditional work groups
Question 14
3 out of 3 points
____ is a compensation system in which companies share the financial value of performance
gains such as productivity, cost savings, or quality with their workers.
Answer
Selected
Answer:
Gainsharing
Correct Answer:
Gainsharing
Question 15
3 out of 3 points
Team rewards that depend on ____ are the key to rewarding team behaviors and efforts.
Answer
Selected Answer:
Correct Answer:
team performance rather than individual performance
Question 16
3 out of 3 points
Which of the following training methods is most appropriate for imparting information or
knowledge to trainees?
Answer
Selected Answer:
team had to spend time riding in the back seat of a squad car, accompanying cops on drug raids, as
part of research for a new communications device for police departments. Another team studied
how people get sick with a cold to create a new overthecounter cold remedy. Often clients give
team members extremely ambitious goals which the team members initially have no idea how to
solve. In other words, project teams are given ____.
Correct
Answer: stretch goals
____ occurs when workers withhold their efforts and fail to perform their share of the work.
Correct
Answer: Social loafing
____ describes the average level of ability, experience, personality, or any other factor on a team.
Correct Answer:
Team level
Which of the following is one of the stages that teams pass through as they develop and grow,
rather than decline?
Correct
Answer: performing
Which of the following types of teams has the authority to change their composition as well as all
of their tasks and work methods?
Correct Answer:
,A(n) ____ is defined as a team composed of geographically and/or organizationally dispersed
coworkers who use telecommunications and information technologies to accomplish an
organizational task.
Correct
Answer: virtual team
____ is the extent to which team members are attracted to a team and motivated to remain
with it.
Correct
Answer: Cohesiveness
Question 9
0 out of 3 points
A group in Great Britain has been established to improve the employment, retention, and
promotion prospects of black and other ethnic minorities as well as women in the Fire and
Rescue Service, which at present has a largely white, male demographic. At its inception, this
group was in the ____ stage of team development.
Answer
Selected
Answer: storming
Correct Answer:
forming
Question 10
3 out of 3 points
The ____ is created to complete specific, onetime projects or tasks within a limited time.
Answer
Selected
Answer:
project team
, Correct Answer:
project team
Question 11
3 out of 3 points
An organization engaged in ____ its work team members is training them in how to do all or
most of the jobs performed by the other team members.
Answer
Selected
Answer:
cross training
Correct Answer:
cross training
Question 12
0 out of 3 points
The highest level of team autonomy is found in ____.
Answer
Selected Answer:
Correct Answer:
selfdesigning teams
Question 13
3 out of 3 points
The least amount of team autonomy is found in ____.
Answer
Selected Answer:
, Correct Answer:
traditional work groups
Question 14
3 out of 3 points
____ is a compensation system in which companies share the financial value of performance
gains such as productivity, cost savings, or quality with their workers.
Answer
Selected
Answer:
Gainsharing
Correct Answer:
Gainsharing
Question 15
3 out of 3 points
Team rewards that depend on ____ are the key to rewarding team behaviors and efforts.
Answer
Selected Answer:
Correct Answer:
team performance rather than individual performance
Question 16
3 out of 3 points
Which of the following training methods is most appropriate for imparting information or
knowledge to trainees?
Answer
Selected Answer:
