MGT 3200 : Final Exam Objectives From The Textbook Fall 2012
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Final exam objectives from the textbook, mgmt 5: what is social loafing? (p. 201) when is it more likely to occur? (p. 201) Behavior in which team members withhold their efforts and fail to perform their share of the work. This is most likely to occur in larger work groups where the individual effort cannot be easily tracked or monitored: what is a cross-functional team? (p. 205) A team composed of employees from different functional areas of the organization. These teams are used to generate creative ideas from multiple perspectives for innovative problem solving: what is a virtual team? (p. 205) A team composed of geographically and/or organizationally dispersed coworkers who use telecommunication and information technologies to accomplish an organizational task: what is the principle advantage? disadvantage of virtual teams? (p. 205-6) The advantages are flexibility, it does not require the same time commitment or downtime associated with face-to-face meetings and traveling so customers and suppliers can be included.
