Team Effectiveness
What are some potential areas of communicator issues?
Ambiguous goals, organizational change, limited resources
What are some causes of organizational politics?
Conflict occurs within the person.
What is intrapersonal conflict?
SAND; IRON; GASOLINE; COPPER; STEEL
the odd one is?
What is Gasoline?
From the below three words, a synonym for Experience:
Face, Make-up, Counteraction
What is Face?
Tasks, wherein it is enough if just one member in the group knows the answer.
What are disjunctive tasks?
Control over activities that are needed by others to complete tasks
The discord that arises when goals, interests, or values of different individuals or groups are incompatible
What is organizational politics?
ALUMNI; DATA; MEMORANDUM; FRIENDS; OXEN
Odd one out is?
What is a Memorandum? (singular)
Using all the letters each time, Two words from the letters REIAMN
Agreeableness, conscientious, extraverted
What are successful team member traits?
Lack of clarity about who has what right.
What is jurisdictional ambiguity?
Make clear what are the bases and processes for evaluation
What are some ways to reduce system uncertainty?
Trout is an anagram of a word that means teacher
What is a tutor?
The number that is one more than one-tenth of one-fifth of one-half of 4,000.
What is 41?
The degree to which team members make good recommendations to the team leader and leaders monitor and provide feedback about the quality expected for each recommendation.
What is staff validity?
The problem is, the other party may use the information to its advantage
What is a con of collaborating?
Need for power and Machiavellinism
What are the personal characteristics that cause organizational politics?
I follow you all day long, but when the night or rain comes, I am all gone.
What is a shadow?
Jane went to visit Jill. Jill is Jane’s only husband’s mother-in-law’s only husband’s only daughter’s only daughter. Jill and Jane are related this way.
What are Daughter and Mother?
Highest information richness channels
What are video conferences and/or face-to-face communications?
Physical separation, Bureaucratic methods, limited interaction
What are conflict reduction strategies when the target of change is behaviors?
Attempts to make suboptimal decisions that favor personal ends.
What is the resulting political behavior of nonprogrammed decisions?
I am seen once in a minute, Twice in a moment, But never in a thousand years.
What is m?
A 4-digit number in which the first digit is one-fifth of the last, and the second and third digits are the last digit multiplied by 3.
What is 1155?