Team Effectiveness
Politics, Conflicts and Negotiations
Team Characteristics
Puzzles 1
Puzzles 2
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Organizational Environment, Team Environment, Team Design, and Team Processes which together lead to Team Success

What are the components of the Team Effectiveness Model

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The actions by individuals that are directed towards the goal of furthering their own self-interests.

What is organizational politics?

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Create a safe environment where you can openly talk about all behaviors without hurting anyone

What is a way to sustain team motivation?

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Toby has 10 siblings (4 girls and 6 boys) and a mother and father. How many people are there in Toby’s family?

What is 13?

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What is 3?

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The degree to which team members interact with and rely on other team members for information, materials, and resources needed to accomplish work for the team

What is task structure or task interdependence?

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Decreased job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and task performance and increased strain.

What are the negative consequences of organizational politics?

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Asking a team member for her opinion is a good...?

What is a Kickstarter question?

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Mary's father has 5 daughters:

Nana, Nene, Nini, Nono, and ____.

Who/what is Mary?

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Culpable has an antonym among the following: 

Blameless; Careless; Irresponsible

What is Blameless?

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Teams have periods of inertia after the initial stage of forming and norming and after a pause when some external factor, in the form of deadlines, reminders, or follow-up requests it results in the team suddenly waking up, revising the processes and performing before they go back to a state of inertia

What is punctuated equilibrium?

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This prevents groupthink and promotes productivity at moderate intensity in teams.

What is conflict?

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Decreased job satisfaction, decreased organizational commitment, and decreased job performance, along with increased strain

What are the negative reactions to organizational politics?

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Teresa’s daughter is my daughter’s mother. I am Teresa's----

What is daughter?

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1/0 is...

What is infinity? or undefined?

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Knowing how to help others with their work + acquiring knowledge journeys while you make your own progress. 

What is team learning?

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Substitutability and centrality of coping activities

What are the contingencies of political strategies in intergroup relations?

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Differentiate rewards among high and low performers will help reduce.......

What is system uncertainty?

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A is the father of C and D is the son of B. E is brother of A, If C is sister of D, How is B related to E?

What is sister-in-law?

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In the following question, various terms of an alphabet series are given with one or more terms missing as shown by (?). Identify the missing term. Series: AZ, GT, MN, ?, YB

What is SH?

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This structure requires the highest degree of coordination in a team

What is comprehensive interdependence?

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Making apolitical attitudes that put organizational ends ahead of personal ends as an important criterion for promotion.

What is a way by which managers can prevent future fiefdoms?

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Attempts to use reorganization as a chance to pursue one's own interests and goals

What is the resulting political behavior of organizational change?

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Penny has 5 children.

January is the name of the 1st. February is the name of the 2nd. March is the name of the 3rd. April is the name of the 4th. What is the name of the 5th./? 


What is What?

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A fire engine travels seven miles to a fire at a speed of 40 mph. Its tank holds 500 gallons of water but has been leaking at a rate of 22.5 gallons per hour throughout the journey. If the fire engine needs 497 gallons of water to put out the fire, will it have sufficient water when it reaches the place?

What is No? (because it will be 0.9375 gallons short.)