LDRS 330 IR MIDTERM FALL 2021
You will answer 5 of the 9 questions below. Please submit your midterm via Moodle by 9am (Pacific Time) Thursday May 26, 2022. I will be available via email to answer any questions that you may have. Reminder – 200-250 words per answer.
- Compare and contrast a work group, team, and self-managing team in terms of power, leadership, decision making, and activities or tasks. Which of the three (Work group, team, self-managing team) do you feel is most effective? Why?
- What are the five characteristics of successful teams? How have researchers investigated these characteristics? Why have these researchers found different results and how are their results different from one another?
- Discuss what can be done at the beginning of a team’s life together to set it off to a good start. Discuss how this sets a team off to a good start and why it is important.
- Explain why group cohesion is important and how to build it. Provide examples.
- What are the benefits and problems of cooperation? How would you as a leader ensure your team cooperates efficiently?
- Why is team emotional intelligence important? How can a team leader improve their team’s emotional intelligence?
- When is conflict good for a team? When is it bad for a team? What can teams do to prepare for conflicts?
- What is empowerment? What problems does an organization encounter when trying to empower teams? What should an organization do to increase the possibility of success in creating empowerment programs?
- Compare, contrast and provide examples of consultative, democratic, and consensus decision making in terms of time, quality, and acceptance.
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