Team Effectiveness
Politics, Conflicts and Negotiations
Four Types of Organizations
Puzzles 1
3
tone, form, language, perceptions and biases

What are some potential areas of communicator issues?

3

Ambiguous goals, organizational change, limited resources

What are some causes of organizational politics?

3

Traditional-replicable processes, stable organizational chart.

What are the characteristics of Amber organizations?

3

SAND; IRON; GASOLINE; COPPER; STEEL

the odd one is?

What is Gasoline?

5

Tasks, wherein it is enough if just one member in the group knows the answer.

What are disjunctive tasks?

5

Control over activities that are needed by others to complete tasks

What are some political strategies used by subunits?
5

Large pay differences are deemed acceptable if they reflect people’s merits and contributions.

What are the Orange organization's compensation and incentive methods?

5

ALUMNI; DATA; MEMORANDUM; FRIENDS; OXEN

Odd one out is?

What is a Memorandum? (singular)

7

Agreeableness, conscientious, extraverted

What are successful team member traits?

7

Lack of clarity about who has what right.

What is jurisdictional ambiguity?

7

Making decentralization and empowerment work on a large scale is no easy feat.

What is a contradiction or problem with the Green organization?

7

trout is an anagram of a word that means teacher

What is a tutor?

10

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?

10

The problem is, the other party may use the information to its advantage

What is collaborating?

10

The materialistic obsessions, the social inequality, the loss of community, and the harm inflicted on nature

What are some of the shadows of the Orange organizations?

10

I follow you all day long, but when the night or rain comes, I am all gone.

What is a shadow?

15

Highest information richness channels

What are video conferences and/or face-to-face communications?

15

Physical separation, Bureaucratic methods, limited interaction

What are conflict reduction strategies when the target of change is behaviors? 

15

We are bound to feel a sense of emptiness in our lives when...

What is, "when the only successful life is the one that reaches the top"

15

I come once in a minute, Twice in a moment, But never in a thousand years.

What is m?

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