Question

Not so long ago, one of your good friends invited you to attend National Night Out, a neighborhood celebration designed to foster police–community relationships and make the United States a safer place to live. After eating fabulous barbecue, chatting with your local sheriff, and seeing several exhibits on crime and drug prevention, you decide to form a Neighborhood Watch Group. You excitedly contact the National Association of Town Watch and the National Neighborhood Watch Institute, and soon afterward you get several packets in the mail containing signs and pamphlets on starting a Neighborhood Watch program. After reading the literature carefully, you realize that every booklet has the same message: It’s easier to run a Neighborhood Watch program if you have a team.

1. Now you have to get to work. Your first thought is to have ten members on the team, but management research indicates that ten members would be _________ . It would be better to have _________ people on the team.

2. You also remember that research shows:

a. As a team decreases in size, it gains more in diversity

b. Members of larger teams are more committed to the team than members of smaller teams

c. Smaller teams are more focused on team goals than larger teams

d. Smaller teams have lower levels of rapport than larger teams

3. Obviously, since all of its members live in your neighborhood, you won’t be using a (Cross functional team; project team; functional team)________ . But since all of your neighbors have different skills, and you are willing to leave the decision making to them, you think that you might start with a (Self-managed team; horizontal team; virtual team)_________ . Whatever type of team you choose, you know that less diversity will bring you (More; Fewer)________ ideas.

Answer 1

1. Management research indicates that ten members would be too many. It would be better to have lesser people on the team.

2. Smaller teams are more focused on team goals than larger teams. Option c is correct.

3.since all of its members live in your neighborhood, you won’t be using a cross functional team.But since all of your neighbors have different skills, and you are willing to leave the decision making to them, you think that you might start with a self managed team. Whatever type of team you choose, you know that less diversity will bring you fewer ideas.