BCOR 2202 Exam 2 STUDY QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS (VERIFIED AND WELL
DETAILED ANSWERS) LATEST UPDATE 2024/2025
What are some factors that lead to group cohesiveness? - ✔✔Group size, effectively
managed diversity, group identity and health, and success
What are some consequences that come from group cohesiveness? - ✔✔Level of
participation in the group, level of conformity to group norms, and huge emphasis on
goal completion
What are the five stages of group development? (Bryce Tuckerman's Model) -
✔✔Forming, storming, norming, performing, adjourning
What are the guidelines for success in a team? - ✔✔Define Team Mission and Goals
Define Roles and Responsibilities
Establish Ground Rules
For Meetings, Define the Outcome and Follow an Agenda
If things go wrong act with accountability
What are the cost of teams? - ✔✔Are expensive to implement
Require significant training
Can have initially high turnover
Historically work about 1/3 of the time
Face problems with group decision making
Groupthink, minority domination, etc.
Have social loafers
, What is social loafing? - ✔✔the tendency for people in a group to exert less effort
when pooling their efforts toward attaining a common goal than when individually
accountable
What are three ways to reduce social loafing? - ✔✔Making individual contributions
to a group identifiable when possible
Emphasizing the valuable contributions of individual members
Keeping group size at an appropriate level
What are the two types of conflict within a group? - ✔✔Functional Conflict
Constructive
Dysfunctional Conflict
What is explained in the article "Why Employees At Apple And Google Are More
Productive"? - ✔✔Research from Bain & Company shows that companies like Apple,
Netflix, Google, and Dell are 40% more productive than the average company. This
increased productivity is not solely due to having more top-tier employees but is a result
of how these companies manage their human capital, particularly in three key areas:
time, talent, and energy.
What is talked about in the Ted Talk "Build a Tower, Build a Team" by Tom Wujec? -
✔✔Tom presents some surprisingly deep research into the "marshmallow problem"
— a simple team-building exercise that involves dry spaghetti, one yard of tape and a
marshmallow. Who can build the tallest tower with these ingredients? And why does a
surprising group always beat the average?
The Planning Process establishes and reaffirms: - ✔✔Vision and Mission Core values,
guiding principles, code of ethics, diversity
Value Proposition Core Competencies
CORRECT ANSWERS (VERIFIED AND WELL
DETAILED ANSWERS) LATEST UPDATE 2024/2025
What are some factors that lead to group cohesiveness? - ✔✔Group size, effectively
managed diversity, group identity and health, and success
What are some consequences that come from group cohesiveness? - ✔✔Level of
participation in the group, level of conformity to group norms, and huge emphasis on
goal completion
What are the five stages of group development? (Bryce Tuckerman's Model) -
✔✔Forming, storming, norming, performing, adjourning
What are the guidelines for success in a team? - ✔✔Define Team Mission and Goals
Define Roles and Responsibilities
Establish Ground Rules
For Meetings, Define the Outcome and Follow an Agenda
If things go wrong act with accountability
What are the cost of teams? - ✔✔Are expensive to implement
Require significant training
Can have initially high turnover
Historically work about 1/3 of the time
Face problems with group decision making
Groupthink, minority domination, etc.
Have social loafers
, What is social loafing? - ✔✔the tendency for people in a group to exert less effort
when pooling their efforts toward attaining a common goal than when individually
accountable
What are three ways to reduce social loafing? - ✔✔Making individual contributions
to a group identifiable when possible
Emphasizing the valuable contributions of individual members
Keeping group size at an appropriate level
What are the two types of conflict within a group? - ✔✔Functional Conflict
Constructive
Dysfunctional Conflict
What is explained in the article "Why Employees At Apple And Google Are More
Productive"? - ✔✔Research from Bain & Company shows that companies like Apple,
Netflix, Google, and Dell are 40% more productive than the average company. This
increased productivity is not solely due to having more top-tier employees but is a result
of how these companies manage their human capital, particularly in three key areas:
time, talent, and energy.
What is talked about in the Ted Talk "Build a Tower, Build a Team" by Tom Wujec? -
✔✔Tom presents some surprisingly deep research into the "marshmallow problem"
— a simple team-building exercise that involves dry spaghetti, one yard of tape and a
marshmallow. Who can build the tallest tower with these ingredients? And why does a
surprising group always beat the average?
The Planning Process establishes and reaffirms: - ✔✔Vision and Mission Core values,
guiding principles, code of ethics, diversity
Value Proposition Core Competencies
