When Faced with a Number of Tight Deadlines, Mandy Moore

question 43

Multiple Choice

When faced with a number of tight deadlines, Mandy Moore often delegates work collectively. Recently she chose some fairly experienced employees to work on a high-priority project. She was heartened to see that the selected group of employees was having numerous meetings and working hard. However, when she went to check on their progress at the halfway mark in the project schedule, she was shocked to see how little the team had done in the past three weeks. This scenario reflects ________.

• A) groupthink
• B) collective efficacy
• C) social loafing
• D) groupshift
• E) ingroup favoritism

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