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BUAD 304 Final Exam: Organizational Behavior and Leadership
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Group - ANS (1) two or more freely interacting individuals who (2) share
norms and (3) goals and (4) have a common identity.
Formal group - ANS assigned by an organization or its managers to
accomplish specific goals.
informal group - ANS exists when the members' overriding purpose in getting
together is friendship or a common interest
role - ANS a set of expected behaviors for a particular position
group role - ANS a set of expected behaviors for members of the group as a
whole
Task roles - ANS enable the work group to define, clarify, and pursue a
common purpose
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Maintenance roles - ANS foster supportive and constructive interpersonal
relationships
norm - ANS an attitude, opinion, feeling, or action—shared by two or more
people—that guides behavior
TUCKMAN'S FIVE-STAGE MODEL OF GROUP DEVELOPMENT - ANS Forming
Storming
Norming
Performing
Adjourning
Group cohesiveness - ANS the "we feeling" that binds members of a group
together, is the principal by-product of Stage 3
punctuated equilibrium - ANS Groups establish periods of stable functioning
until an event causes a dra- matic change in norms, roles, and/or objectives.
The group then establishes and maintains new norms of functioning,
returning to equilibrium
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team - ANS a small number of people who are committed to a common
purpose, per- formance goals, and approach for which they hold themselves
collectively account- able
Social loafing - ANS the tendency for individual effort to decline as group size
increases
Types of Teams - ANS Work Teams
Project Teams
Cross-Functional Teams
Self-Managed Teams
Cross-functional Teams - ANS created with members from different
disciplines within an organization, such as finance, operations, and R&D
Self-managed teams - ANS groups of workers who have administrative
oversight over their work domains
Virtual teams - ANS work together over time and distance via electronic
media to combine effort and achieve common goals
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