Team Dynamics and Leadership
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Course Introduction
This course examines the principles and practices involved in effective team dynamics and leadership across various organizational settings. Students will explore the stages of team development, roles and responsibilities within groups, and the characteristics of high-performing teams. Topics include communication strategies, conflict resolution, decision-making processes, motivation, and the impact of diversity on team functioning. The course will also analyze different leadership styles and their influence on team outcomes, equipping students with practical tools and strategies to foster collaboration, facilitate change, and achieve group objectives. Through case studies, group projects, and reflective exercises, students will develop essential skills for leading and participating in dynamic team environments.
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Organizational Behavior 12th Edition by John R. Schermerhorn
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Chapter 1: Introducing Organizational Behavior
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Q1) Research in organizational behavior is based on scientific thinking,which means the proposed explanations are carefully tested and the explanations that can be scientifically verified are the only ones that are accepted.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) According to Robert Katz,the essential skills of management can be grouped into which of the following three categories?
A)Technical,interpersonal,and informational
B)Technical,human,and conceptual
C)Interpersonal,decisional,and informational
D)Organizing,planning,and leading
E)Leading,decisional,and human
Answer: B
Q3) What are the two key outcomes on which an effective manager will focus?
Answer: Task performance and job satisfaction
Q4) What is the ability to understand the emotions of others called as?
Answer: Empathy
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Chapter 2: Individual Differences,Values,and Diversity
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Q1) Which of the following statements about locus of control is correct?
A)People with an external locus of control tend to be more introverted.
B)People with an internal locus of control tend to be more extroverted.
C)People with an internal locus of control tend to perform better on tasks requiring complex information processing and learning.
D)People with an external locus of control are more oriented toward their own feelings.
E)Many managerial and professional jobs require behavior that is consistent with an external locus of control.
Answer: C
Q2) Individuals with a(n)__________ orientation are characterized by impatience,desire for achievement,and perfectionism.
Answer: Type A
Q3) Personality represents the overall combination of characteristics that capture the unique nature of a person as he or she reacts and interacts with others.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Emotions,Attitudes,and Job Satisfaction
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Q1) Moods are not likely to be directed at a specific person or event.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Joseph said to himself,"Oh,I just don't have the energy to do much today; I've felt down all week." This is an example of a(n)__________.
A)emotion
B)mood
C)cognition
D)display rule
E)citizenship behavior
Answer: B
Q3) The extent to which an individual is dedicated to a job is known as __________.
A)job satisfaction
B)organizational commitment
C)job involvement
D)employee engagement
E)organizational citizenship
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Perception,Attribution,and Learning
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Q1) Impression management is sometimes referred to as the "Pygmalion effect."
A)True
B)False
Q2) A stereotype is an abstract set of features commonly associated with members of a particular category.
A)True
B)False
Q3) __________ are positively valued work outcomes that are given to the individual by some other person.
Q4) The __________ is the tendency to underestimate the influence of situational factors and to overestimate the influence of personal factors in evaluating someone else's behavior.
Q5) We practice a lot of impression management as a matter of routine in everyday life.
A)True
B)False
Q6) In general,__________ reinforcement elicits a desired behavior more quickly than does __________ reinforcement.
Q7) __________ is the process of creating explanations for events.
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Chapter 6: Motivation and Performance
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Q1) A forced distribution method of performance appraisal can be problematic if most of the employees are truly superior performers or if most of them perform at about the same level.
A)True
B)False
Q2) An emerging trend is the attempt to extend the awarding of cash bonuses to employees at lower levels in organization and in both managerial and non managerial jobs.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A company that requires employees to be at work between 9:30 a.m.and 3:30 p.m.but allows them to schedule their remaining work day to fit personal needs is using
A)the compressed workweek
B)job sharing
C)flexible working hours
D)elastic scheduling
E)telecommuting
Q4) __________ give the right to purchase shares at a fixed price in the future.
Q5) __________ in performance appraisal compares each person with every other.
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Chapter 7: Teams in Organizations
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Q1) An effective group is one that achieves high levels of task performance,member satisfaction,and team viability.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A(n)__________ is set up to deal with a specific problem or opportunity.
Q3) Temporary work groups often appear on organizational charts as departments,divisions,and teams.
A)True
B)False
Q4) __________ consist of people with the formal responsibility for leading other teams.
Q5) Members of __________ can solve problems with a positive combination of functional expertise and integrative or total systems thinking.
A)cross-functional teams
B)self-directed teams
C)cross-departmental teams
D)virtual teams
E)statutory teams
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Chapter 8: Teamwork and Team Performance
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Q1) The team building process is highly collaborative.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In decision by __________,when the group finally accepts an idea,all others in the group have been bypassed and discarded by simple __________ rather than by critical evaluation.
Q3) Tasks that are routine and easily subdivided lend themselves to:
A)hierarchical communication networks.
B)parallel communication networks.
C)decentralized communication networks.
D)restricted communication networks.
E)centralized communication networks.
Q4) In a continuous improvement approach to team building,the team members commit themselves to monitoring group developments and accomplishments on an ongoing basis and making the day-to-day changes needed to ensure team effectiveness.
A)True
B)False
Q5) __________ occurs when too little work is expected and the individual feels underutilized.
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Chapter 9: Decision-Making and Creativity
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Q1) All of the following statements relating to escalating commitment are correct EXCEPT:
A)the tendency to escalate commitments often outweighs the willingness to disengage from them.
B)decision makers may rationalize negative feedback resulting from an escalated commitment as a temporary condition.
C)an escalated commitment may result in a decision maker protecting his or her ego by not admitting that the original decision was a mistake.
D)once it is determined that a chosen course of action is "not working," decision makers will re-group and select a different course of action.
E)decision makers may characterize any negative results from an escalated commitment as a "learning experience" can be overcome with added future effort.
Q2) The 5-step process of choosing a course of action for dealing with a problem is referred to as ________.
Q3) __________ is the process of choosing a course of action for dealing with a problem or opportunity.
Q4) A(n)__________ is the degree of likelihood of an event's occurrence.
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Chapter 10: Conflict and Negotiation
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Q1) Substantive conflict involves a fundamental disagreement over ends or goals to be pursued and the means for their accomplishment.
A)True
B)False
Q2) __________ goals deal with outcomes that relate to how well people involved in the negotiation and any constituencies they may represent are able to work with one another once the process in concluded.
A)Process
B)Substance
C)Relationship
D)Collaborative
E)Statutory
Q3) Accommodation is a conflict management strategy may be used when an issue is trivial.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Explain the basic nature and likely results of distributive and integrative negotiation? Suggested
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Chapter 11: Communication and Collaboration
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Q1) __________ is the study of how building design may influence communication and productivity by improving lateral communications.
Q2) Which of the following statements about cross-cultural communication is NOT accurate?
A)People must always exercise caution when communicating with people of different geographical or ethnic groupings within one country.
B)Ethnocentrism can easily create communication problems among people of diverse backgrounds.
C)Language differences represent a major difficulty in cross-cultural communication.
D)Gestures mean basically the same thing in various cultures of the world.
E)People must always exercise caution when communicating with people of different national cultures.
Q3) A supportive communication principle is to focus on the problem and not the person.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In supportive communication,we are supposed to focus on the problem and not the
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Chapter 12: Power and Politics
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Q1) Power-oriented behavior is action directed primarily at developing or using relationships in which other people are to some degree willing to defer to one's wishes.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which one of the following statements accurately describes a key premise of agency theory?
A)By protecting stockholder interests,all the interests of society are served.
B)Stockholders do not have a clear interest in greater returns.
C)Managers are self-interested and willing to sacrifice those self-interests for others (particularly stockholders.
D)Employees monitor how agents handle company strategies.
E)Newspapers report how agents manage company strategies.
Q3) Voluntarism is the degree to which an employee contributes his or her time and energy to charitable organizations.
A)True
B)False
Q4) __________ is what a person has when exercising power and it is expressed by others' behavioral response to this exercise of power.
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Chapter 13: Leadership Essentials
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Q1) All of the following are substitutes for leadership EXCEPT:
A)individuals' experience,ability and training.
B)highly structured/routine jobs.
C)intrinsically satisfying jobs.
D)cohesive work groups.
E)high leader position power.
Q2) Trait perspectives assume that traits play a central role in differentiating between leaders and non-leaders or in predicting leader or organizational outcomes.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is NOT one of the four styles of leadership identified by Hersey and Blanchard?
A)Delegating
B)Participating
C)Selling
D)Telling
E)Motivating
Q4) __________ leadership is a more general term for employee-centered supervision.
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Chapter 14: Leadership Challenges and Organizational Change
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Q1) Which of the following,refers to altruistic love?
A)Defining the destination and journey
B)Forgiveness,acceptance,and honesty
C)Endurance and perseverance
D)Having stretch goals
E)Reflecting high ideals
Q2) The cultural dimension "in-group collectivism" refers to the rewarding of collective actions.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The facilitation and support approach for dealing with resistance to change seems to work best when people are frustrated by work constraints and difficulties encountered in the change process.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Change that results in a major overhaul of the organization or its component systems is called __________.
Q5) Often shared leadership is used in combination with vertical leadership. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Organizational Culture and Innovation
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Q1) The __________ aspect of culture includes the unique stories,ceremonies,and corporate rituals that make up the history of the firm or a group within the firm.
Q2) Which is NOT one of the levels of analysis in studying organizational culture?
A)Observable culture
B)Shared values
C)Inter-organizational conflict
D)Common assumptions
E)Taken-for-granted truths
Q3) At the deepest level of cultural analysis are __________,or the taken-for-granted truths that collections of corporate members share as a result of their joint experience.
A)shared values
B)common assumptions
C)shared premises
D)mutual promises
E)collective conjectures
Q4) Refining an existing product to make it more saleable in a new market is an example of __________.
Q5) __________ serve to transmit cultural meaning.
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Chapter 16: Organizational Goals and Structures
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Q1) Wider spans of control are expected when tasks are complex,when subordinates are inexperienced or poorly trained,or when tasks call for team effort.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Beyond substituting for direct management supervision,__________ is often used to simplify jobs.
A)systematization
B)institutionalization
C)standardization
D)coordination
E)formalization
Q3) In the United States and Japan,it is generally expected that the primary beneficiary of business firms is the stockholder.
A)True
B)False
Q4) __________ are diagrams that depict the formal structures of organizations.
Q5) What is vertical specialization? Discuss the difference between chain of command and span of control.
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Chapter 17: Strategy,Technology,and Organizational Design
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT a mechanism that can be used to retain useful information?
A)Individual employees
B)The internal information system
C)Transportation mechanisms
D)Formal structures
E)Ecology
Q2) All of the following are data interpretation problems EXCEPT:
A)self-serving interpretations.
B)the almost universal ability among managers to interpret events,conditions,and history to their own advantage.
C)data is viewed as sound information and readily applied with an organization.
D)managers and employees alike often see what they have seen in the past or see what they want to see from the information.
E)rarely do managers and employees look at the data and see what is or can be.
Q3) The organization's formal structure and the positions in the organization are less obvious but nonetheless important mechanisms for storing information.
A)True
B)False
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