Scenario B

question 43

Multiple Choice

Scenario B. You and a group of classmates decide to form a management club at your college or university. During this process the following occurs:
1. Initially, a group of interested classmates meets to decide what you want to do in the club. Many great ideas are put on the table and enthusiasm is high.
2. A few meetings later, things are quite different. Now, individuals who put some of the original ideas on the table are fighting hard for their agenda and tempers are flaring. Some individuals are also causing conflict in their efforts to gain leadership positions in the club; the President's job is particularly hotly contested.
3. After a few weeks of conflict, the members realize that if they don't come together, nothing will get done. The leadership roles have been decided now and group members begin to, as they said, "bond" and work together more.
4. By the end of the first semester, the group is "running like a top!" The projects are on track, members are executing their assigned tasks and the group feels a sense of success.

-At the point that the club considers themselves to be "bonding," which stage of group formation would you use to describe their status?

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

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Definitions:

Bus Topology

A network configuration in which all stations are connected in parallel with the communication medium and all stations can receive information from any other station on the network.

Stations

Refers to individual devices or work areas within a networked or production system, each capable of performing specific tasks or functions.

In Series

A configuration where components are connected along a single path, so the same current flows through all components.

EtherNet/IP

An industrial network protocol designed to adapt the Common Industrial Protocol to standard Ethernet.