The Product Development Team at JEG Were Working Together for a Year

question 57

Multiple Choice

The product development team at JEG were working together for a year and were very comfortable with an informal style of working.However,the new manager who stepped in preferred to use a more formal style during meetings and team interactions,as this was the way he had always worked.Which of the following is most similar to this situation?

• A) The marketing team at N&S had to change their methods of planning campaigns after the manager decided that the old ways of working were too inefficient.
• B) After reviewing the design team's work methods, the CEO of Orangetree insisted that the team begin to maintain formal records of team meetings and activities.
• C) A spate of layoffs in competing firms encouraged manager of the sales team at LPR to change the team's way of working and set higher performance standards for the staff.
• D) Zygsys has always given employees autonomy in pacing their work, but a new member cited the experience from a former team and suggested that managers set all work schedules.

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Identify the challenges and constraints faced by leaders at different organizational levels.

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