True / False 18. The current popularity of teams seems based on the evidence tha

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True / False 18. The current popularity of teams seems based on the evidence that teams typically outperform individuals when the tasks being done require multiple skills, judgment, and experience. As organizations have restructured, they have turned to teams to better utilize employee talents. 19. Most experts agree, keeping teams small is a key to improving group effectiveness. speaking, the most effective teams have five to nine members. number of people who can do the task. Generally Experts suggest using the smallest 20. A work group interacts primarily to share information and make decisions to help each member perform within his/her area of responsibility. A work team generates positive synergy through coordinated effort. Individual efforts result in a level of performance that is greater than the sum of those individual inputs 21. Cross-functional teams are teams made up of employees from about the same hierarchical level, but from different work areas, who come together to accomplish a task.

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18. True. When tasks require multiple skills and experience, teams give the best result. It becomes extremely difficult in such tasks, to get productivity

                                                                                                                                         

19. True: If the team gets bigger the productivity decreases. Optimum member in a team are 5 to 9. Smaller, leaner team is always preferred

20. True: Work group works in synergies and getting the best out of every individual and collaborating to get the maximized result

21. True: Cross-functional team has members from different functions of the same organization.

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