Where a Team in the Storming Stage of Its Life

question 15

Multiple Choice

Where a team in the storming stage of its life cycle is merged into or acquired by a new team which is in the performing stage of its life cycle, the manager's best option is likely to be to:

• A) dismantle the acquired/merged team's culture completely and impose the acquiring team's culture on all team members.
• B) merge the cultures of the two teams.
• C) impose the acquired/merged team's culture on the acquiring team's members.
• D) create an entirely new culture that places acquired/merged team back in the forming stage.
• E) allow each of the team's cultures to exist within the newly merged team.

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