MANA 3318 TEST 2 UTA QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) ALREADY
GRADED A+
Group Ans✓✓✓Two or more people with common interests, objectives,
and continuing interaction
Work Team Ans✓✓✓Group of people with complementary skills who
are committed to a common:
-Mission
-Performance goal
-Approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable
Teamwork Ans✓✓✓Joint action by a team in which individual interests
are subordinated to team unity
Benefit for organization Ans✓✓✓Encourages collaboration
Benefit for indiciduals Ans✓✓✓-Psychological intimacy: Emotional and
psychological closeness to other team or group members
-Integrated involvement: Closeness achieved through tasks and activities
Norms of Behavior Ans✓✓✓Group standards used to evaluate
member's behaviors
,Group cohesion Ans✓✓✓Interpersonal glue that makes group members
stick together
Social loafing Ans✓✓✓Failure of a member to contribute personal time,
effort, thoughts, or other resources
Loss of Individuality Ans✓✓✓Individual group members' loss of self-
awareness, sense of accountability, inhibition, and responsibility for
individual behavior
Formal groups Ans✓✓✓Official or assigned groups gathered to perform
various tasks
Usually set up when there is a problem. The people(Employees) are our
customers
Informal groups Ans✓✓✓Groups that evolve in the work setting to meet
needs not met by formal groups
(Ethnic, gender, cultural and interpersonal diversity is critical to all types
of groups)
, Tuckman's Five stage model group development Ans✓✓✓Process of
how a group develops
-Forming
-Storming
-Norming
-Performing
-Adjourning
In a true work environment there are how many stages of group
development? Ans✓✓✓-4 (Adjourning is usually excluded) working
teams are not abandoned
Work team structure Ans✓✓✓Goals and objectives, guidelines,
performance measures, and role specification
Work team process Ans✓✓✓Managing cooperative and competitive
behaviors
Diversity Ans✓✓✓-Enhances group effectiveness
-Types of member contribution - Contributor, collaborator,
communicator, and challenger
DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) ALREADY
GRADED A+
Group Ans✓✓✓Two or more people with common interests, objectives,
and continuing interaction
Work Team Ans✓✓✓Group of people with complementary skills who
are committed to a common:
-Mission
-Performance goal
-Approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable
Teamwork Ans✓✓✓Joint action by a team in which individual interests
are subordinated to team unity
Benefit for organization Ans✓✓✓Encourages collaboration
Benefit for indiciduals Ans✓✓✓-Psychological intimacy: Emotional and
psychological closeness to other team or group members
-Integrated involvement: Closeness achieved through tasks and activities
Norms of Behavior Ans✓✓✓Group standards used to evaluate
member's behaviors
,Group cohesion Ans✓✓✓Interpersonal glue that makes group members
stick together
Social loafing Ans✓✓✓Failure of a member to contribute personal time,
effort, thoughts, or other resources
Loss of Individuality Ans✓✓✓Individual group members' loss of self-
awareness, sense of accountability, inhibition, and responsibility for
individual behavior
Formal groups Ans✓✓✓Official or assigned groups gathered to perform
various tasks
Usually set up when there is a problem. The people(Employees) are our
customers
Informal groups Ans✓✓✓Groups that evolve in the work setting to meet
needs not met by formal groups
(Ethnic, gender, cultural and interpersonal diversity is critical to all types
of groups)
, Tuckman's Five stage model group development Ans✓✓✓Process of
how a group develops
-Forming
-Storming
-Norming
-Performing
-Adjourning
In a true work environment there are how many stages of group
development? Ans✓✓✓-4 (Adjourning is usually excluded) working
teams are not abandoned
Work team structure Ans✓✓✓Goals and objectives, guidelines,
performance measures, and role specification
Work team process Ans✓✓✓Managing cooperative and competitive
behaviors
Diversity Ans✓✓✓-Enhances group effectiveness
-Types of member contribution - Contributor, collaborator,
communicator, and challenger
