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provide them some additional training in strategies and methods
that may work well for the team. The manager’s initiative to holds
this meeting fulfills the _______ function of communication
6) _______ teams are defined as groups of employees who
perform highly related or interdependent jobs and take on many of
responsibilities of their former supervisors.
7) Bonnie Patterson has been a manager for seven years at
Wayne and Watson, a legal consultancy firm. A good part of her
workday involves holding meetings and she likes to do work on a
time bound schedule. For this reason, members of her team receive
the agenda at the beginning of the meeting, followed by some time
to contemplate over the issue at hand individually, subsequently, the
team members present their ideas one after the other, the group
discusses them together, and lastly, a ranking is done to choose the
most favored idea this represents the ________ approach of group
decision making
8) As a consequence of the information circulated by the
grapevine in an organization, employees experience
9) To retain its edge in the organic health food market, Natura
has established a high-priority team comprised of senior executives
from the company’s production, marketing, and research divisions.
These employees work together closely to study consumer attitudes
about organic health foods and come up with closely monitored
development and marketing strategy for new products, this ensure
that each division is informed of the specific needs, timelines, and
expected outcomes of the strategy. It also makes Natura a company
that adapts to changes in market trends swiftly. The team Natura
uses here is of the _______ type
10) Jordan is a sales officer who has been underperforming over
the last three month. At the last monthly operations cycle meeting,