E-Lab (the "E" stands for experience) has project teams perform field research for its clients. One team had to spend time riding in the back seat of a squad car, accompanying cops on drug raids, as part of research for a new communications device for police departments. Another team studied how people get sick with a cold to create a new over-the-counter cold remedy. Often clients give team members extremely ambitious goals which the team members initially have no idea how to solve. In other words, project teams are given ____.

____ occurs when workers withhold their efforts and fail to perform their share of the work.

____ describes the average level of ability, experience, personality, or any other factor on a team.

Which of the following is one of the stages that teams pass through as they develop and grow, rather than decline?

Which of the following types of teams has the authority to change their composition as well as all of their tasks and work methods?

A(n) ____ is defined as a team composed of geographically and/or organizationally dispersed coworkers who use telecommunications and information technologies to accomplish an organizational task.

____ is the extent to which team members are attracted to a team and motivated to remain with it.

A group in Great Britain has been established to improve the employment, retention, and promotion prospects of black and other ethnic minorities as well as women in the Fire and Rescue Service, which at present has a largely white, male demographic. At its inception, this group was in the ____ stage of team development.

The ____ is created to complete specific, one-time projects or tasks within a limited time.

An organization engaged in ____ its work team members is training them in how to do all or most of the jobs performed by the other team members.

The highest level of team autonomy is found in ____.

The least amount of team autonomy is found in ____.

____ is a compensation system in which companies share the financial value of performance gains such as productivity, cost savings, or quality with their workers.

Team rewards that depend on ____ are the key to rewarding team behaviors and efforts.

Which of the following training methods is most appropriate for imparting information or knowledge to trainees?

A ____ is a performance appraisal process in which feedback is obtained from the boss, subordinates, peers, and co-workers as well as the employees themselves.

A ____ is a purposeful, systematic process for collecting information on the important work-related aspects of a job.

____ is intentional discrimination that occurs when people are purposefully not given the same hiring, promotion, or membership opportunities because of their race, sex, age, ethnic group, national origin, or religious beliefs.

____ is the process of finding, developing, and keeping the right people for the company.

Which of the following types of tests accurately predicts job performance in almost all kinds of jobs?

____ are procedures used to verify the truthfulness and accuracy of information that applicants provide about themselves and to uncover negative, job-related background information not provided by applicants.

Two of the most important results of a job analysis are ____.

____ interviewing typically leads to much more accurate hiring decisions (i.e., correctly predicting which job applicants will perform better, and therefore should be hired).

Which of the following is a direct (rather than indirect) measure of job applicants' capability to do the job?

____ is the form of sexual harassment in which employment outcomes such as hiring, promotion, or simply keeping one's job depend on whether an individual submits to sexual harassment.

From a legal perspective, there are two kinds of sexual harassment. They are ____.

When a CEO opened the nationwide sales force meeting with a crude sexually explicit joke it was an example of ____.

What is the primary advantage of the structured interview?

The term ____ refers to both the financial and nonfinancial rewards organizations give employees in exchange for their work.