WorksheetsSSG Review 1
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 7mins
Formal groups are used to
organize and distribute work
work independently
make things more clearly
feel like family
Team characteristics should include one of following factors
Interaction
Short-term relation
Act independently
Unreacted members
When do you need to work alone?
Highly complex tasks or problems
Minimum discretion is required
High level of choice and uncertainty
Decisions by consensus are essential
How many people does “a span of control”
structure averagely have in their team?
3
5
7
10
Who do staffs report to in a matrix team?
Single manager
Different managers
General manager
CEO of the organization
A team is called contract team if
Team members have other duties to perform in their normal functional units
Team retains their responsibility for both their daily work and project work
Team members report to different managers
Team is brought in from outside in order to do project work
What is Social Value Orientation (SVO)?
People prefer to organize and distribute work between themselves
People’s preferences when dividing resources between themselves and others
People dislike others’ work and try to prove their outcome is much better
People are not cooperative and tend to work alone
Andrew is a good listener and he always tries to understand what people think and why people feel in their own way. Andrew has ability of
empathy
considerable skills
caring
interdependence
Which one is the key component in cooperation?
Honesty
Hard working
Generosity
Trust
What is one of disadvantages having large group?
Overestimate their abilities
Rank themselves above average
More involvement
Reduce communication
Janet does not want to get involved in any disputes, discussion or conversations with her colleagues. She gets to work late and fails to show up at meetings as she wants to avoid any tasks may be assigned to her. However, she always wants to be apart of any success her team made. Economists call this kind of person is:
Pretending
Untrustworthy
Dishonest
Free rider problem
The need for self-evaluation experiment has shown that people come to know about themselves by
having positive attitude in life
comparing with others
seeking happiness
feeling complete
Some people consider social norms and the opinions of others to help justify their own positions in life, some others consider_____to perform better.
opinions and values
performance and abilities
opinions and values
similarity and friendliness
What are the two main factors in social comparison?
Similarity and friendliness
Openness and independence
Relevance and similarity
Self-esteem and trustworthy
When people can boost their own self-evaluations by comparing themselves to others ranked lower in a company, they are having
life side effect
bad behaviour
self-enhanced effect
self-evaluation maintenance
What are the positive effects of upward comparison?
Hope and inspiration
Happy and gratitude
Gratitude and scorn
Dissatisfaction
What is the negative effect of downward comparison?
Envy
Dissatisfaction
Scorn
Pessimistic
Social comparison can lead to
impacts on self-esteem, feeling of victory, feeling of humbleness
impacts on self-esteem, feeling of envy, feeling of regret
impacts on self-esteem, feeling of love, feeling of being superior
Impacts on self-satisfaction, self-esteem, feeling of loser
The SEM model suggests that managers may prefer sub optimal candidates because these candidates are not likely to
be more competitive
seek for opinions
compare themselves to others
threaten the managers’ position
What is groupthink?
Group members are incapable of making a rational decision
Group members share same thought in a specific topic
Group members want to be alike in everything
Group members decide to support each other
People who consider upward comparison as a threat, have
negative mindset
growth mindset
fixed mindset
jealous feelings
When the number of comparison targets increase, social comparison tends to
increase
remain the same
be distorted
decrease
People usually compare with friends or co-workers than they are to industry or national averages, what is this comparison called in situational factors?
Number
Local
Proximity to a standard
Self-relevant
One of the key findings in the Dunning-Kruger effect experiments is unskilled people are
always satisfied with results
often jealous with others
unrewarded and biased
overconfident with results
One of the key findings in the Dunning-Kruger effect experiments is top performers tend to
overestimate their skills
rank themselves above average
underestimate their skills
always satisfied with results
In group decision making process, if there are more people agree on certain point of view, we may consider the fact that the group has
complete agreement
group polarization
group sharing knowledge
All resources are mobilized
People can claim that they can live independently and separately but they actually have
a need to belong
a need to be included
a need to talk to someone
None of these correct
Groups not only satisfy need to belong, but also provide information, assistance and
developed Skills
better Communication
social support
motivation
The psychological significance of groups include the need to belong, identity and membership, evolutionary advantages of group living and
respect in groups
affiliation in groups
trust in groups
interdependence in groups
What is the main advantage of social facilitation?
Feel better
Perform tasks improved
Work more independently
Have high chance of promotion
Which situation below is considered social loafing?
A single student works alone on a paper
A student does all the group homework
Three students work on homework together
The whole group equally work hard on group assignment
Four group level factors that combine to cause groupthink are
cohesion, isolation, biased leadership, decisional stress
cohesion, isolation, discouragement, biased leadership
cohesion, isolation, decisional stress, aggressiveness
isolation, biased leadership, aggressiveness, discouragement
Why is making group decision better than making individual decision?
More objective evaluation
Team members feel encouraged to do so
No one left behind the process
Group decision is inferior to an individual decision
You start planning a proposal by
determining the factors.
determining the solutions.
scheduling the study.
stating the problem.
The most important section of a proposal is the
cost
solution
purpose statement
background
Which of the following is NOT a strategy to avoid the occurrence of Groupthink?
Appointing devils' advocates in discussions
Using outside experts
Having a charismatic leader of the group
Allocating different groups for different tasks
Which of the following is NOT a negative outcomes of Groupthink occurring?
Not examining alternatives
No contingency plans
Not seeking expert opinion
Needing to seek outside expertise
Which age group is often characterized by the tendency to rethink decisions and lean toward more permanent choices?
12-17
18–26
27–31
32–42
What kind of students has been shown by research to stay in college longer, be more goal focused and motivated, and have a more satisfying and fulfilling college experience?
Students who have good social relationships
Students who have excellent leadership skills
Students who show great passsion for the subjects they are studying
Students who get involved in career-planning activities early
One of the three categories of social value orientation (SVO) is?
Incompetent
Cooperative
Obsessive
Generous
