Work Groups That Bring People with Different Functional Specialties Together

question 187

Multiple Choice

Work groups that bring people with different functional specialties together to better invent, design, or deliver a product or service are called

• A)self-managed teams.
• B)virtual teams.
• C)task forces.
• D)cross-functional teams.
• E)formal teams.

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Definitions:

Source Credibility

The level of trustworthiness, reliability, and expertise attributed to a source of information by its audience.

Expertise

How much a source knows.

Trustworthiness

Whether a source will honestly tell you what he or she knows.

Halo Effect

The assumption that because people have one desirable trait (e.g., attractiveness), they also possess many other desirable traits (e.g., intelligence).