Chapter 14 Multiple Choice Questions

. What is a normative team model?

An approach that defines a team in terms of a set of shared values

An approach that puts values at the heart of teamwork

A model that has norms as the key for teamwork

A model that suggests individual decision making cannot be permitted in a team

. What lies at the heart of Belbin's Model?

Teams need nine people to be effective

An assumption that effective teams need a range of different personality types capable of performing certain key roles

An assumption that understanding traits is vital to teamwork

People need to specialize in a team

. What is distributed leadership?

An idea about ensuring everyone participates in decision making.

A way of spreading responsibility across an organization

The view that leadership is more a process spread across the organization rather than a person at the top of it.

Ensuring that leaders distribute power to others

. What is a phase based model of team building?

An idea that values, norms, and behaviour of individuals in team settings changes over time

An approach that shows how an individual's emotions change over time

A model that suggests teams change with time

A model that shows a leader how to behave in a team

. What is Groupthink?

An approach to group decision making that explains how decisions are made in a team

An idea that shows why dictators are inevitably overthrown

An idea that suggests groups make worse decision than individual leaders

An attempt to explain why groups occasionally reach erroneous conclusions even when the prevailing data would suggest an alternative end

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