Deck 11: The Project Team

Question 1

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

Answer 1

False

Question 2

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

Answer 2

True

Question 3

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

Answer 3

True

Question 4

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

Question 5

The project manager must secretly communicate the project objective and create a vision of the successful result of the project and the benefits it will provide.

Question 6

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

Question 7

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 8

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

Question 9

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

Question 10

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

Question 11

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

Question 12

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

Question 13

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

Question 14

Poor communication is important to project team effectiveness.

Question 15

Results orientation is a characteristic associated with effective project teams.

Question 16

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

Question 17

A project team is more than a group of individuals.

Question 18

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

Question 19

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

Question 20

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

Question 21

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

Question 22

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

Question 23

When a project is successful, everybody wins!

Question 24

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

Question 25

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 26

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

Question 27

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

Question 28

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

Question 29

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

Question 30

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

Question 31

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

Question 32

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

Question 33

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

Question 34

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

Question 35

Discussions should not always be work related.

Question 36

Team building is an ongoing process.

Question 37

Effective team members participate and communicate.

Question 38

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

Question 39

Effective team members are not problem identifiers or problem solvers.

Question 40

Effective team members have low expectations and make things delayed.

Question 41

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

Question 42

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

Question 43

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

Question 44

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

Question 45

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

Question 46

Withholding or falsifying information is acceptable.

Question 47

Differences can create barriers to team performance.

Question 48

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

Question 49

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 50

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

Question 51

Some circumstances during a project are debatable regarding misbehavior.

Question 52

Diversity is similarities among people.

Question 53

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

Question 54

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

Question 55

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

Question 56

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

Question 57

Barriers to valuing diversity include awareness and understanding.

Question 58

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

Question 59

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

Question 60

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

Question 61

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

Question 62

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

Question 63

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 64

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

Question 65

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

Question 66

Conflict is bad and should be avoided.

Question 67

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

Question 68

Differences of opinion are natural and must be expected.

Question 69

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

Question 70

Unethical actions should be encouraged, acknowledged, and appreciated.

Question 71

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 72

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 73

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

Question 74

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

Question 75

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

Question 76

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

Question 77

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 78

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

Question 79

Conflict on projects is inevitable and can be beneficial.

Question 80

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.