Jack, your director of manufacturing, has created a team of ...

[james]

Jack, your director of manufacturing, has created a team of eleven employees from quality control. Jack gives the team members the responsibility of planning and scheduling their own work, and making operating decisions.
 
  Also, members of this team evaluate each other's performance. This is an example of a ________ team.
  A) problem-solving
  B) self-managed
  C) cross-functional
  D) virtual
  E) task-resolution

Question 2

According to research, which of the Big Five personality traits is the most important in effective leaders?
 
  A) conscientiousness
  B) openness
  C) extraversion
  D) agreeableness
  E) emotional stability

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Answer to Question 1

B
Explanation: B) Self-managed work teams are groups of employees who perform highly related or interdependent jobs and take on many of the responsibilities of their former supervisors. These tasks are planning, assigning tasks to members, making operating decisions, taking action on problems, and working with suppliers and customers.

Answer to Question 2

C
Explanation: C) A comprehensive review of leadership literature, when organized around the Big Five, has found extraversion to be the most important trait of effective leaders but more strongly related to leader emergence than to leader effectiveness. Conscientiousness and openness to experience also showed strong relationships to leadership, though not quite as strong as extraversion.