Team Dynamics

Employees in a department are considered a team only when they directly interact and coordinate work activities with each other.

• True

• False

Social loafing is most common in teams that are very small.

• True

• False

Teams are well-suited to complex work that can be divided into more specialized roles.

• True

• False

Team members typically hold one or more formal roles in the team as well as roles that they informally fulfill at various times.

• True

• False

Teams tend to have more cohesion when entry to the team is restricted.

• True

• False

Self-directed work teams plan, organize, and control activities with little or no direct involvement of supervisors.

• True

• False

In most self-directed work teams, the supervisor assigns tasks that individual team members perform.

• True

• False

An important rule of brainstorming is that all of the participants should evaluate and criticize the other team members' ideas.

• True

• False