As Team Leader, You Discover That a Competitor Is About

question 61

Multiple Choice

As team leader, you discover that a competitor is about to develop a similar product that your group is currently developing. What is most likely to happen if you tell your team members about this external threat?

• A)The team would move quickly to the adjourning stage of team development.
• B)The team would become more cohesive.
• C)Individual team members would become more productive through social loafing.
• D)The team would begin to introduce dysfunctional norms.
• E)All of these will occur.

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