Deck 11: The Project Team

Question 1

Poor leadership is a barrier that can hinder project team effectiveness.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Unclear definition of roles and responsibilities is a barrier that can hinder project team effectiveness.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Clear understanding of the project objective is a characteristic associated with poor project teams.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

A project team is a group of independent individuals working cooperatively to achieve the project objective.

Question 5

A personal relationship between two people takes time to develop and teams evolve through various stages of development.

Question 6

Project constraints regarding the work scope, quality levels, budget, and schedule must be hidden.

Question 7

A project team is more than a group of individuals.

Question 8

High level of mistrust is a characteristic associated with effective project teams.

Question 9

In many projects, people who have never worked together are assigned to the same project team.

Question 10

Turnover of project team members is a barrier that can hinder project team effectiveness.

Question 11

Lack of commitment is a is a key element of project team effectiveness.

Question 12

Helping these individuals develop and grow into a cohesive, effective team takes effort on the part of the project manager and each member of the project team.

Question 13

High degree of cooperation and collaboration is a characteristic associated with troubled project teams.

Question 14

Dysfunctional behavior is a barrier that can hinder project team effectiveness.

Question 15

Although the project manager is ultimately responsible for the success of a project, each member of the project team shares in that responsibility.

Question 16

Lack of project structure is a support that helps develop project team effectiveness.

Question 17

Results orientation is a characteristic associated with effective project teams.

Question 18

Poor communication is important to project team effectiveness.

Question 19

Clear expectations of each person's role and responsibilities is a characteristic associated with effective project teams.

Question 20

Unclear vision and objective is a portal that can help develop project team effectiveness.

Question 21

Team building is an ongoing process.

Question 22

When team members are located near one another, there is a greater chance that they will talk.

Question 23

It has been said that there is no I in TEAM, there are no individual winners or losers.

Question 24

Discussions should not always be work related.

Question 25

Effective team members participate and communicate.

Question 26

Effective team members put personal gain above the success of the project.

Question 27

In addition to organizing social activities, the team can periodically call team meetings, as opposed to project meetings.

Question 28

The project team can initiate social events to celebrate project events, such as reaching a critical milestone.

Question 29

An after-work pizza party, a team luncheon, an informal lunch in the conference room, and a trip to see a sports event or theater production are examples of events the team can organize to foster socialization and team building.

Question 30

Team members should not expect the project manager alone to be responsible for team building.

Question 31

When a project is successful, everybody wins!

Question 32

The project manager, and not each member of the project team, needs to help create and foster a positive and effective project environment.

Question 33

Effective team members are self-directed and follow through on assignments.

Question 34

Team members should foster team building in whatever ways they can.

Question 35

It's important that team members get to know one another on a personal basis by being intrusive.

Question 36

Effective team members have low expectations and make things delayed.

Question 37

It's important that social activities include select members on the team.

Question 38

Effective team members are not problem identifiers or problem solvers.

Question 39

Effective team members take pride in doing the work required and nothing more.

Question 40

Effective team members plan, control, and feel accountable for their individual work efforts.

Question 41

Differences can create barriers to team performance.

Question 42

Miscommunication and misunderstanding may be more likely to happen between people who are similar as compared to those that are different.

Question 43

Withholding or falsifying information is acceptable.

Question 44

Individual team members can make a personal commitment to understand and value diversity and respect the differences of other team members.

Question 45

Team members need to keep distances between each other differently based on each person's unique differences.

Question 46

It is the project manager's responsibility to set the tone and expectations and to exemplify ethical behavior.

Question 47

It is important for team members or the project manager to communicate information to the customer.

Question 48

It is appropriate for team members to tell jokes, ridicule, or make fun of a diversity characteristic of a team member or a particular group.

Question 49

Appropriate behavior regarding diversity includes closed-mindedness, stereotyping, labeling, exclusion, ridiculing, insulting, harassment, intimidation, and discrimination.

Question 50

Team members can also do things to support valuing diversity and the contributions of all team members.

Question 51

Project team members should stereotype or make assumptions about a team member's behavior or performance based on their diversity.

Question 52

Some circumstances during a project are debatable regarding misbehavior.

Question 53

It is important that a customer is informed of a potential problem in timely manner that is neither unnecessarily alarming, nor misleading.

Question 54

Team members should make derogatory or insensitive remarks or engage in behavior that demeans the dignity of others.

Question 55

Team members should not exclude or have lower expectations of certain diverse groups.

Question 56

Differences can lead to more creative, faster, and higher-quality problem solving and decision making.

Question 57

Diversity is similarities among people.

Question 58

Any diversity issues or conflicts should be addressed immediately so they can be resolved before they fester and ''explode'' at a later time.

Question 59

Barriers to valuing diversity include awareness and understanding.

Question 60

A training session on diversity should raise awareness, create understanding, and help diminish misunderstanding and conflict.

Question 61

Conflict is bad and should be avoided.

Question 62

Conflict on projects is inevitable and can be beneficial.

Question 63

Ethical behavior should be discussed as part of orientation for new employees.

Question 64

Project members should bring possible ethical situations to the attention of the project manager.

Question 65

A potential conflict on projects is Resource Assignments where conflict can arise over the particular individuals assigned to work on certain tasks or over the quantity of resources assigned to certain tasks.

Question 66

A potential conflict on projects is Schedule where conflict can result from differences of opinion about the sequence in which the work should be done or about how long the work should take.

Question 67

Project manager should rarely discuss the importance of ethical behavior at project team meetings.

Question 68

Training sessions on ethical behavior informs project team of the organization's policy.Incorporating case studies or role-play can be helpful.

Question 69

Misconduct or conflict of interest should be addressed and disciplined appropriately.This shows that such behavior will not be tolerated.

Question 70

If wrongdoing is reported, the project organization must thoroughly investigate the allegations for the facts versus hearsay to determine if any disciplinary action should be taken.

Question 71

Two actions a project organization can take to prevent wrongdoing are having a policy on ethical behavior and conducting training sessions on ethical behavior.

Question 72

Training sends a message that the organization places high value on ethical behavior.

Question 73

A policy on ethical behavior includes topics on expectations, process for reporting misconduct, and consequences of engaging in unethical practices.

Question 74

A punitive process should be established for individuals to report any actions by others that they think is unethical.

Question 75

Unethical actions should be encouraged, acknowledged, and appreciated.

Question 76

Ethical behavior is everyone's responsibility.Team members must feel accountable for their actions.

Question 77

Members of the project team must pressure any members engaging in questionable behavior, by communicating that they do not agree with, or condone such behavior.

Question 78

Differences of opinion are natural and must be expected.

Question 79

A potential conflict on projects is Priorities where conflict is likely to result when people are assigned to work on several different projects concurrently or when various people need to use a limited resource at the same time.

Question 80

Employees who participate in ethics training are more likely to engage in unethical behavior.