A1. This paradox stems from the fact that although individuals usually join groups hoping to “become more” than what they were before they joined, the group asks them to be less so that the group can become more.
What is paradox of regression?
100
This person has been credited with suggesting seven guidelines for synergestic decision-making.
What has Jay Hall been credited with?
100
In this type of brainstorming all participants get an equal opportunity to contribute.
What is the nominal group technique?
100
This company was formed in a garage by 2 electrical engineers with a capital of $538 and their first financially successful product was a precision audio oscillator.
What is the Hewlett-Packard company?
100
This team is the most prevalent form of formal group, which includes a manager and all employees report to that manager.
What is the command team?
200
In 1991,for the first time in 15 years, this subsidiary of General motors sold more cars per dealer than any other manufacturer, including Honda. And the performance was repeated the following year.
How would you describe Saturn Corporation?
200
In this juryroom drama, there are 12 weary jury men who are trying to decide successfully whether the teen-aged defendant had killed his father with a knife.
What is the “12 angry men” movie ?
200
During this process, all team members are asked to list all possible deviations on one or more pieces of paper.
What is the “Silent Generation” process?
200
After the 2nd world war, the co-founder of this company started a radio repair shop in a bomb-damaged department before being joined by his colleague Akio Morita.
What is Sony?
200
These teams are created to deal with a specific problem and are usually disbanded when the task is completed or the problem is solved.
What is a Project team?
300
This informal group acts as group that we identify with and compare ourselves with For e.g a middle manager might compare himself with higher-level managers.
What is a reference group?
300
Unique solutions in these groups tend to be creative and not just compromises.
What are the established groups?
300
During this process, the coordinator continues in turn for each member of the group who can state a deviation from his own created list.
What is the Round Robin Stage?
300
This company was founded in 1981 by Narayan Murthy along with 6 other team members with an initial capital of $250 after they got their first foreign client, Data Basics Corporation from the US.
What is Infosys?
300
In this organization model, the manager delegates specific responsibility and decision-making authority to the team itself. The team as a whole is completely accountable for its own actions.
What is a Self-managed team?
400
This is an important indicator of how much influence the group has over its individual members.
What is team cohesiveness?
400
After conducting this decision exercise, Jay Hall could conclude that group decision making was effective than individual decision making.
What was the “Lost on the moon” exercise?
400
During this process, each member receives 8 cards and they are asked to select eight most important deviations from those posed on the flip charts.
What is the voting stage?
400
William E. B. founded this company after the maiden flight of one of the two B&W seaplanes built with the assistance of George C. Westerwelt.
What is Boeing?
400
This is a team used only for a defined period of time and for a separate, concretely definable purpose.
What is a Project team?
500
This person suggested that small groups move through 5 stages as they develop: forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning.
What was B.W. Tuckman credited with?
500
This person noted that managers spent from 50 to 80 percent of their time serving on committees.
Who was Rollie Tillman?
500
This document is a plan which gives details of how the data is to be gathered and how it is to be recorded and interpreted.
What is the QMS?
500
This person has been credited with bringing a strategic turnaround at GE through his six sigma implementation and introduction of cross-functional teams, project teams and partnerships.
Who is Jack Welsh?
500
This team consists of a group of people who work interdependently and with shared purpose across space, time, and organization boundaries using technology to communicate and collaborate.