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Teams at One Smooth Stone
Organizations have been using groups for a long time, but today's workplaces are different. Teams are used in many different ways, and to far greater extent, than in the past. Ideally, people are far more involved, they are better trained, cooperation is higher, and the culture is one of learning as well as producing.
The words group and team often are used interchangeably. Modern managers sometimes use the word teams to the point that it has become a cliché; they talk about teams while skeptics perceive no real teamwork. Thus, making a distinction between groups and teams can be useful. A working group is a collection of people who work in the same area or have been drawn together to undertake a task but do not necessarily come together as a unit and achieve significant performance improvements. A real team is formed of people (usually a small number) with complementary skills who trust one another and are committed to a common purpose, common performance goals, and a common approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable.
Team-based approaches to work have generated excitement. Teams can increase productivity, improve quality, and reduce costs. In this activity, you will see a video about a truly team-based organization, One Smooth Stone. You will be able to recognize and understand a number of the chapter concepts about teams as you watch this organization in action.
6. When we see the One Smooth Stone team practicing the word "dysnipodemia," we are seeing which aspect of the team environment?
team rewards
continuous learning
narrowly defined jobs
risk taking is not present
continuous processes
7. As we just heard, at One Smooth Stone the customer's needs are the focus and no one person or group in the organization owns any problem. Rather, they all do. And they all have the latitude to solve it. In this respect, the environment at One Smooth Stone exemplifies high levels of
empowerment.
bureaucracy.
traditional work groups.
management by exception.
control.
8. Given the dynamic nature of the work they do, teams at One Smooth Stone are highly-empowered. This also means that they are which of the following?
autonomous work groups
semiautonomous work groups
quality circles
bureaucratic groups
traditional work groups
9. We just learned that One Smooth Stone is decentralized in order to "allow teams to form around the client." In terms of the types of teams outlined in the text, this means that which type of teams exist at One Smooth Stone?
project teams
virtual teams
parallel teams
transnational teams
management teams
10. When One Smooth Stone carefully questions "What are the relationships like among people inside your company?" they are getting at which aspect of team health?
roles
cohesiveness
storming
performance norms
scouting
11. The strong values and norms for fun that exist among teammates at One Smooth Stone (e.g., smart, fast, kind) likely help motivate teamwork through which of the following mechanisms?
team size
containing conflict
social loafing
social facilitation
forming
Explanation / Answer
6.Ans: Continuous learning.
7Ans: Empowerment. (Its empowering each team member to work on everything)
8.Ans: Autonomous work groups. (Although the groups are autonomous yet it is is highly empowered. )
9.Ans: Virtual Teams ( That means it has teams virtually present across the world.)
10Ans:Cohesivness. (Whether teams are cohesive in all aspcts.)
11.Ans: Forming
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