Teams & Groups

Groups transform into teams once they have acquired additional positive features such as...

• Cooperation and coordination

• Task completion

• Decision making

• All of the above

All teams are groups, but not all groups are teams.

• True

• False

A group of airline passengers is an example of...

• A psychological group

• A formal group

• An aggregate group

• A team

….. teams (such as football teams) execute brief performances that are repeated under new conditions:

• Advice

• Action

• Project

• Production

The success of an additive task depends on the weakest member.

• True

• False

Meredith Belbin (1996) distinguished 9 team roles in 3 main categories. Which is NOT one of the 3 main categories?

• Thinking roles

• Feeling roles

• Action roles

• Social/people roles

Which role type within teams and groups involves contributing through analysis and critical thinking?

• Thinking role

• Social/people role

• Action role

• Support role

What kind of group task depends on the strongest member, such as a quiz team?

• Disjunctive

• Conjunctive

• Additive

• Deductive

An example of a conjunctive task would be...

• An orchestra

• A tug of war

• A quiz team

• A group presentation

Which of the following is NOT one of the stages in group development?

• Storming

• Norming

• Performing

• Restoring