Collaboration occurs when a number of people ________. |
B |
________ occurs when a group of people working together to achieve a common goal via a process of feedback and iteration. |
B |
Which of the following is a key difference between collaboration and cooperation? |
D |
A student team, which is assigned a term project, meets and divides the work into sections and then team members work independently on their individual pieces. An hour before the project is due the team members meet again to assemble their independent pieces into a whole. Which of the following is lacking in this activity? |
A |
Andrea, the floor supervisor at a call center, calls Bryan, a call attendant, to her office. She reports observing a few critical omissions in his calls, a finding supported by recent customer surveys. Bryan feels that Andrea is just throwing her weight around. Which of the following is a valid observation of this scenario? |
B |
Being ________ is one of the most important characteristics of an effective collaborator. |
B |
Which of the following is the most important trait that an effective collaborator should have? |
C |
) Identify the least important characteristic for an effective collaborator. |
B |
According to Hackman, which of the following is a primary criterion for judging team success? |
A |
Which of the following is a primary purpose of collaboration? |
B |
________ decisions are decisions that support day-to-day activities. |
A |
Kyra, a plant supervisor, orders 500 units of Type-2 steel beams for the coming month. In doing so, she has made a(n) ________ decision. |
D |
A decision is called an operational decision if it ________. |
D |
Project leaders have to take decisions on the allocation and utilization of materials and labor. Such decisions are called ________ decisions. |
C |
Departmental heads should determine the computer hardware and programs that are needed for their department. This is an example of a(n) ________ decision. |
D |
Managerial decisions in an organization concern ________. |
A |
________ decisions are those that support broad-scope, organizational issues. |
B |
The directors of a company meet to decide if they should start a new product line or not. This is an example of a ________ decision. |
B |
Which of the following is an example of a strategic decision? |
B |
Which of the following is a key difference between strategic decisions and managerial decisions? |
C |
Identify a key difference between managerial decisions and operational decisions. |
A |
Using a standardized procedure to calculate the incentives of employees is an example of a(n) ________ decision. |
B |
An organization uses a formula to compute the reorder quantity of an item in inventory. This is an example of a(n) ________ decision process. |
A |
A company’s top managers meet to decide on a potential merger with one of its competitors. They discuss various aspects of the merger, such as business valuations and conducting due diligence. This is an example of ________ decision making. |
B |
Which of the following questions is best answered through unstructured decision making? |
B |
Which of the following decisions is least likely to involve collaboration? |
A |
Which of the following observations about the relationship between decision type and decision process is true? |
B |
The need for collaboration is greatest for ________ decisions. |
C |
) ________ decisions are the most structured and have very little need for collaboration. |
A |
The fundamental purpose of the starting phase of a project is ________. |
D |
An organization defines the rules that govern a project that it needs to undertake and the people who should perform the tasks. The project is in the ________ phase of project management. |
A |
The decision about team members’ roles and authorities is made during the ________ phase of a project. |
A |
The main purpose of the planning phase in a project is to ________. |
C |
Which of the following tasks should be performed during the planning phase of project management? |
B |
A project manager defines the tasks that her team members have to perform and determines the schedule for carrying out each of the tasks. This project is in the ________ phase of project management. |
A |
A project manager has to manage tasks and budgets and solve problems during the ________ phase of project management. |
C |
Project teams should document project results and learnings. Which of the following is the project management phase in which the teams perform this function? |
D |
One of the procedures of a collaboration project is task status reporting. This is performed in the ________ phase of the project. |
C |
Identify the project management phase in which the tasks of a project are performed. |
B |
Project data is data that is ________. |
A |
Project metadata is data that is ________. |
B |
Which of the following is an example of project data? |
D |
Which of the following collaboration activities is mainly concerned with content sharing rather than communication? |
C |
Which of the following information system requirements falls into the content sharing category? |
B |
________ communication occurs within a team when all team members meet at the same time. |
A |
Asynchronous communication occurs when team members ________. |
C |
The use of a conference call is an example of ________ communication. |
B |
Who is most likely to use asynchronous communication? |
A |
Which of the following tools facilitates asynchronous communication? |
c |
________ is a popular commercial webinar product used in virtual sales presentations. |
c |
Which of the following is a reason why discussion forums are better than emails in asynchronous communication? |
c |
The term ________ refers to a collaboration tool where team members can easily respond and the management can easily identify the people who have not responded to a request. |
d |
Which of the following alternatives for sharing content provides version control? |
d |
Version-management systems ________. |
b |
Which of the following statements is true about working with Google Docs? |
d |
_______ is a process that occurs when the collaboration tool limits, and sometimes even directs, user activity. |
b |
With version-control systems, shared documents are placed into shared directories called ________. |
c |
Identify the most popular version control application for general business. |
c |
Free data communications and data storage will make collaboration systems cheaper and easier to use by 2022. Which of the following is the most likely consequence of this development? |
b |
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