Task and Maintenance roles
Decision Making Approaches in Teams
Teams, Teamwork and Collaboration
Conflict
Causes of Conflict
100

This role focuses on completing tasks and organizing work

What are task roles?

100

This decision method requires every team member to fully agree before moving forward.

What is Unanimity?

100

What is the main rule during brainstorming ? 

What is No criticism of ideas?

100

What is Conflict caused by personal feelings like anger or dislike

 

What is emotional conflict? 

100

When old problems come back because they were not solved.

What are unresolved conflicts?

200

These roles keep team members positive and reduce tension

 What are maintenance roles?

200

A fast decision-making approach where the leader makes the final choice—team input optional.

What is Authority rule?

200

In the nominal group technique which happens first?

What is Members write ideas alone?

200

Which conflict style is best for win-win?

what is Collaboration

200

When goals or rewards make people work against each other.

What are competing objectives?

300

This type of leadership is shared among team members.

What is distributed leadership?

300

This happens when two or three strong personalities steer the team’s decision, even without full support.

What is Minority rule?

300

what is a is a symptom of group thinking ? 


What is Mind-guarding?

300

What happens in a compromise?

what is both sides giving up something

300

When people have to share or fight for limited resources.

What is resource scarcity?

400

This decision method accepts ideas only when no one objects.

What is the lack of response rule?

400

A common voting-based method where more than half the group must support a decision.

What is Majority rule?

400

Why do teams use the nominal group technique ?

What is to reduce judgement from louder group members?

400

Ignoring or withdrawing from the conflict

What does avoiding conflict?

400

When people’s work depends on others to get their job done.

What is task interdependence?

500

This voting method chooses the option with the most votes.

What is the majority rule?

500

This decision style aims for a choice everyone can accept by listening, cooperating, and finding shared ground

What is Consensus?

500

Which action helps prevent group thinking ? 

What is assigning a devil’s advocate?

500

Is competing a win-lose or win-win style?

what is both?

500

When people are not sure about their job or role

What is role ambiguity?