Team Dynamics Quiz

What is a challenge associated with team diversity?

• Teams take longer to achieve high-performance

• Teams communicate more effectively

• Teams have fewer conflicts

• Teams are more cohesive

How does team size affect cohesion?

• Larger teams are more cohesive

• Smaller teams are more cohesive

• Team size has no effect on cohesion

• Larger teams have more influence

What is a benefit of higher team success?

• Decreases social identity

• Weakens member needs

• Increases social identity

• Reduces team performance

What is the relationship between team cohesion and performance?

• Cohesion has no effect on performance

• Performance always leads to higher cohesion

• Cohesion has a stronger effect on performance than performance has on cohesion

• Performance and cohesion are unrelated

How does cohesion affect team performance when norms oppose firm goals?

• Cohesion improves performance

• Cohesion undermines performance

• Cohesion has no effect

• Cohesion increases conflict

What are shared mental models?

• Unique images held by individuals

• Similar images and expectations shared by team members

• Financial strategies for teams

• Personal goals of team members

Which of the following is a benefit of shared and complementary mental models?

• Decrease in team motivation

• Improvement in habitual work practices

• Increase in individualism

• Reduction in team size

What is a key benefit of team mental models?

• Decrease in team motivation

• Knowledge of where information is located within the team

• Increase in individualism

• Reduction in team size

What is the relationship between team efficacy and team effectiveness?

• Linear relationship.

• Curvilinear relationship.

• No relationship.

• Inverse relationship.

According to brainstorming rules, what is wanted in terms of ideas?

• Quantity

• Quality

• Criticism

• Limitation