Self-Managing Teams

question 27

Multiple Choice

Self-managing teams:

• A)are limited to only very large organizations.
• B)require members to coordinate their own activities and make decisions.
• C)typically increase the need for supervisors.
• D)create a tall organizational structure.
• E)show negligible increase in productivity and substantial decrease in product quality.

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Definitions:

Material Culture

Consists of the physical objects, resources, and spaces that people use to define their culture, including buildings, artifacts, tools, and art.

Non-Material Culture

The ideas, beliefs, values, norms, and practices that are shared among a group of people and influence their behavior but are not physical objects.

Norms

Culturally defined rules that outline appropriate behaviours.

Folkways

Informal norms that suggest customary ways of behaving.