Lightspeed.com (Scenario) Walid Is a Team Leader for Lightspeed.com, an E- Business

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Lightspeed.com (Scenario)
Walid is a team leader for Lightspeed.com, an e- business that has employees in every global time zone. Some of the factors that the team has to contend with are deadlines, strong work ethic, the creativity- innovation chain, high- speed turnaround, and professionalism. As team leader, Walid sees team members via videoconference only a few times per year or via compressed video via internet a few times more per year. A frustration that he is encountering is that he works with all of these people and does not have control over their "actual" work or the few organizational rules, regulations, and policies. Yet, due to the position he is in, he feels he gets all of their complaints. The team does not deal well when a member offers an
"off- the- wall" solution to a team problem; team members seem to have more trouble with this than any other team- conflict issue. What he likes most about leading the team is that they seem to prefer getting their objective accomplished instead of wasting time trying to decide who should be doing what tasks.
-The part Walid likes the most is that the team seems to prefer getting their objective accomplished instead of wasting time, which indicates that the team is ________.

• A) tolerant of conflict
• B) an open- system focus team
• C) focused on ends rather than means
• D) able to deal with high risk

Calculate the mean of a normal distribution given the standard deviation and percentile.

Calculate the standard deviation of a normal distribution given the mean and percentile.

Interpret the mean and standard deviation in the context of real-world normal distributions.

Determine cutoff values for specific percentiles within a normal distribution.

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Definitions:

Ingroup

A group to which an individual belongs, feels a sense of identity, and derives a positive self-esteem from membership.

Outgroup

Any group an individual does not belong to or identify with.

Discrimination

Discrimination is unjust or prejudicial treatment of individuals based on characteristics such as race, gender, age, or sexual orientation.

Peripheral Route

A method of persuasion that uses low elaboration—where people minimally process the message. This method usually results in development of weaker attitudes.