📅 Week 8 Assignment
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🧑🤝🧑 Focuses on leadership and team effectiveness
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1. What role does Status play in group formation?
Options:
A) It leads to stronger identification for new hires.
B) It enhances self-esteem by emphasizing commonalities.
C) It makes people less likely to notice differences between groups.
D) It encourages individuals to align with high-status groups.
Answer: D) It encourages individuals to align with high-status groups.
2. _________ is the third stage of group development.
Options:
A) Forming
B) Storming
C) Performing
D) Norming
Answer: C) Performing
3. Exchange theory is a theory explaining affiliation among individuals due to spatial/geographical proximity.
Options:
A) True
B) False
Answer: B) False
4. An individual’s view of how he/she is supposed to act in a given situation is_______
Options:
A) Role expectation
B) Norm
C) Role Perception
D) Role conflict
Answer: C) Role Perception
5. ______ norms of the group regulate the interaction between its members.
Options:
A) Performance Norms
B) Appearance Norms
C) Allocation of resource norms
D) Social Arrangement Norms
Answer: D) Social Arrangement Norms
6. What does conformity involve in the context of group dynamics?
Options:
A) Promoting individuality within the group.
B) Adjusting one's behavior to align with the norms of the group.
C) Resisting the influence of group norms.
D) Ignoring the established norms of the group.
Answer: B) Adjusting one's behavior to align with the norms of the group.
7. What is deviant workplace behavior?
Options:
A) A behavior that strictly adheres to organizational norms.
B) Voluntary behavior that violates significant organizational norms, threatening the well-being of the organization or its members.
C) Behavior that encourages teamwork and collaboration.
D) A behavior that aligns with workplace civility.
Answer: B) Voluntary behavior that violates significant organizational norms, threatening the well-being of the organization or its members.
8. What is another term for deviant workplace behavior?
Options:
A) Prosocial behavior.
B) Normative behavior.
C) Antisocial behavior or workplace incivility.
D) Conformist behavior.
Answer: C) Antisocial behavior or workplace incivility.
9. Which of the following is not an aspect of the team effectiveness model?
Options:
A) Context
B) Composition
C) Process
D) Work-life balance
Answer: D) Work-life balance
10. ‘Leadership and Structure’ is a Team Composition factor that significantly relates to team performance.
Options:
A) True
B) False
Answer: A) True
