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Question 1 4 out of 4 points

‘The collaborator’ is interested in maintaining good relationships between all team players and wants to

make sure that all members are heard and valued.

Selected Answer: False

Question 2 4 out of 4 points

Selling simplicity as a means for piling on more work will only decrease stress and decrease

commitment to simplification.

Selected Answer: False

Question 3 4 out of 4 points

The complex theory suggests that they starting point, or initial conditions, of the system can lead to

complex and unpredictable results.

Selected Answer: False

Question 4 4 out of 4 points

Action learning is a dynamic process that is appropriate to mature learners as it simulates learning at

both the cognitive and affective levels.

Selected Answer: True

Question 5 4 out of 4 points

Chaos theory suggests that complex beginnings can lead to ordered outcomes while as the complexity

theory suggests that simple beginnings can lead to complex outcomes.

Selected Answer: False

Question 6 4 out of 4 points

Compromising is when an individual neglects his/her own concerns to satisfy the concerns of the other

person and yields to another’s point of view.

Selected Answer: False

Question 7

Complexity and uncertainty tend to be the fuel of project chaos.

Selected Answer: True

4 out of 4 points

Question 8 4 out of 4 points

During the storming stage of team formation group members are often unclear on the exact purpose of

the team or the scope of the project and become more familiar with new teammates.

Selected Answer: False

Question 9 4 out of 4 points

The challenger’ is problem oriented and is not afraid to question the wisdom of the group.

Selected Answer: True

Question 10

The Parkinson’s Law tells us that if something can go wrong it will go wrong.

Selected Answer: False

4 out of 4 points

Question 11 4 out of 4 points

Simplification can help project stakeholders focus on the project through greater clarity combined with

decreased capacity to get the work done.

Selected Answer: False

Question 12

It is very likely that many projects are tipped into chaos as the strategy changes.

Selected Answer: True

4 out of 4 points

Question 13 4 out of 4 points

During the forming stage of team formation, project team members become more comfortable

working with each other and with the group’s methods for completing the tasks.

Selected Answer: False

Question 14

Question 15

The Murphy’s Law tells us that people, on average, will delay the start of activity.

Selected Answer: False

The scope of a project is the main driver of schedules, resources, and budgets.

Selected Answer: True

4 out of 4 points

Question 16 4 out of 4 points

The principle value of action learning is that it is designed to promote positive and constructive

change in people and their organizations through increased awareness, knowledge, and skills.

Selected Answer: True

Question 17 4 out of 4 points

In order to preclude a trust climate trust, gossip about and disparage others on the staff when they

are not present.

Selected Answer: True

Question 18 4 out of 4 points

One of the benefits to the project is managed well is that it leads to new ways for handling

relationships.

Selected Answer: True

Question 19 4 out of 4 points

When project team members are confused about what to do next with the steps are well defined in

the project plan, we label this piece of the project a Disconnect.

Selected Answer: True

Question 20 4 out of 4 points

One of the consequences of the Parkinson’s Law is that most people tend to pad time estimates and

then take the full amount of the estimated time.

Selected Answer: True

Question 21

A lot of mistakes are made in the storming stage of team development.

Selected Answer: True

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Question 22 4 out of 4 points

Negotiation always involves two or more parties with both common interests and conflicting interests

and conflicting interests, who enter a process of interacting together with the goal or outcome of

reaching some kind of agreement.

Selected Answer: True

Question 23

Question 24

Simplification is all about efficiency.

Selected Answer: False

Simplification is about figuring out what we don’t have to do.

Selected Answer: True

4 out of 4 points

Question 25 4 out of 4 points

A behavior that helps build a trust climate is to look on expressions of feelings and doubts as signs of

weakness.

Selected Answer: False

Question 26

Complexity is a big contributor to chaos.

Selected Answer: True

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Question 27 4 out of 4 points

The communicator is concerned about the team’s mission and tends to focus on the big picture.

Selected Answer: False

Question 28 4 out of 4 points

The secret in any negotiation is to be able to illustrate the common advantages to both parties and to

connect these advantages so they are balanced.

Selected Answer: True

Question 29

‘The contributor’ is task oriented, with a heavy emphasis on information gathering.

Selected Answer: True

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Question 30 4 out of 4 points

Disconnects occur most often when the project planning and control system mirrors the reality of the

project.

Selected Answer: False

Question 31 4 out of 4 points

The most significant contribution a project leader can make to her team is to demonstrate persistence

and optimism.

Selected Answer: True

Question 32 4 out of 4 points

Under the strategic negotiation model, resources are seen to be unlimited, that is, there is plenty of

pie for everyone.

Selected Answer: False

Question 33

A team can be defined as a number of persons working in some joint action.

Selected Answer: True

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Question 34 4 out of 4 points

Conflict occurs in situations when the concerns of two parties appear to be incompatible and begins

when one party perceives that the other party perceives that the other party has frustrated, or is about

to frustrate a concern.

Selected Answer: True

Question 35

Question 36

0 out of 4 points

Collaboration attempts to recognize both parties’ goals while finding solutions that fully satisfy one

party.

Selected Answer: [None Given]

0 out of 4 points

One of the biggest barriers identified in the performing stage of team development is the inability of

project team members to focus their attention on the task at hand.

Selected Answer: [None Given]

Question 37 4 out of 4 points

Accommodating is a method of dealing with conflict where an individual does not address conflict.

This may take the form of diplomatically sidestepping an issue or postponing the discussion of an

issue.

Selected Answer: False

Question 38 4 out of 4 points

Cross cultural conflict occurs in conditions where the concerns of two parties from different cultures

appear to be in compatible to one or both of the cultures.

Selected Answer: True

Question 39 4 out of 4 points

A typical mistake of the inexperienced project manager is to treat all projects as though they were the

same.

Selected Answer: True

Question 40 4 out of 4 points

Adults enter a learning activity with less immediate intentions to apply the learning to work or life

problems.

Selected Answer: False

Question 41 4 out of 4 points

Competing is a method of dealing with conflict that is assertive and power – oriented mode whereby

one uses whatever power seems appropriate to win ones’ own position.

Selected Answer: True

Question 42 4 out of 4 points

The competing style of dealing with conflict implies an assertive and power-oriented mode whereby

one uses whatever power seems appropriate to win one’s position.

Selected Answer: True

Question 43 4 out of 4 points

No-Brainers are the same as Disconnects. Team members are instinctively certain about what to do

next even when there is no formal project plan providing detailed documentation of next steps to be

performed.

Selected Answer: False

Question 44 4 out of 4 points

The performing stage of team development is characterized by team members that are now ready to

get down to the task at hand. They understand the rules and roles of the team and begin to

emphasize achieving results.

Selected Answer: True

Question 45 4 out of 4 points

Culturally diverse teams have the potential for lower productivity than culturally homogeneous

groups, but greater risk of loss arising from a faulty process.

Selected Answer: False

Question 46 4 out of 4 points

Senge outlines the three fundamental challenges in any change process namely analyzing,

sustaining, and redesigning.

Selected Answer: False

Question 47

The Student Syndrome Law implies that work expands to fill the allocated time.

Selected Answer: False

4 out of 4 points

Question 48 4 out of 4 points

Effective teams are characterized by people of similar backgrounds, talents, and personalities.

Selected Answer: False

Question 49 4 out of 4 points

In synergistic negotiations, resources are seen to be limited, that is, there is a fixed pie.

Selected Answer: False

Question 50 4 out of 4 points

The adult learner enters a learning activity with little experience that young learners, and so has a

narrower basis for new learning.

Selected Answer: False

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