It Is Friday Afternoon and You Are Heading Home for the Weekend

question 31

Multiple Choice

It is Friday afternoon and you are heading home for the weekend. Today was the last meeting of a 7 member interdisciplinary team that you were a part of. The team met for several months. The task that the team faced was a huge project of downsizing 4 inpatient hospital units. The goal was to consolidate 4 units into 2 without compromising patient care, staff morale or revenue. You did it! You were successful and the team was recognized and rewarded by the University X Healthcare System. You now take the time to reflect on the process, the ups and downs and challenges that brought you and your team members this degree of success. Now that the task is accomplished, you can reflect on your experience and apply your knowledge of group process.
Finally, group members were focused on getting the task done and related to each other in ways that allowed 4 inpatient hospital units to be consolidated in to 2 units without compromising patient care, staff morale or revenue. It is clear to you now that, according to Tuckman, the group was exhibiting what stage of development?

• A) Forming
• B) Storming
• C) Norming
• D) Performing

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Definitions:

Standard Normal Probability Distribution

A normal distribution with a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1, used in statistical analysis to represent standardized values of a dataset.

Probability Density Function

A function that describes the likelihood of a random variable to take on a particular value.

Continuous Random Variable

A variable whose value is not fixed and can assume an infinite number of values within a given range.

Normal Probability Distribution

A bell-shaped distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.