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1.  Following the cultural approach of the corporation for which you are starting to manage a project, you are guiding your project team through the first life-cycle phase of conceptualization. Your next step is to call for a team meeting to let ideas emerge in an unrestricted creative process. What exactly should that look like?

   A) You write down the ideas of team members and structure them into categories of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats during the session.
   B) You creatively gather thoughts and ideas without any discussion or frowning. These ideas are only filtered and structured after the end of the brainstorming session.
   C) Your team members wear hats with different colors, each of which stands for a way of thinking. Each member discusses topics from the viewpoint of their thinking.
   D) You try to eradicate deviating ideas and concepts of team members during the meeting, so that the entire project team follows your principles.
   

2.  Which concept of locating team members can help them best to enhance their performance as a team?

   A) Co-location
   B) Cross-functional dispersion
   C) Virtual e-teams
   D) Global team dispersion
   

3.  A review of your project team member’s most recent performance reports shows a major drop in output. Which is the best approach to raise team productivity in a project?

   A) Increase the frequency of team review meetings and status reports.
   B) Increase the pressure on each team member to adhere to deadlines.
   C) Post a special reward for the best performing team member.
   D) Improve feelings of trust and cohesiveness among team members.
   

4.  Which of the following are not common barriers to project team building?

   A) Differing outlooks, priorities, and interests
   B) Role conflicts
   C) Excessive team member commitment
   D) Unclear project objectives/outcomes
   

5.  Geert Hofstede’s cultural dimension of individualism refers to…

   A) …the degree of dependence relationships between individuals.
   B) …the significance of the person versus that of the group.
   C) …the identification with the gender role of an individual.
   D) …the tolerance for ambiguity or uncertainty in the workplace.