Across
- 4. A collection of individuals who are connected to one another by some common purpose, are interdependent, have some degree of organization among them and see themselves as a group.
- 8. The ability to do something or act in a particular way, especially as a faculty or quality.
- 10. A group of players forming one side in a competitive game or sport.
- 11. A group of people who meet to gain psychological benefit through close contact with one another.
- 12. A forecasting process framework based on the results of several rounds of questionnaires sent to a panel of experts.
- 13. A message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages. They differ from chat rooms in that messages are often longer than one line of text, and are at least temporarily archived.
- 14. A demographically diverse group of people assembled to participate in a guided discussion about a particular product before it is launched, or to provide ongoing feedback on a political campaign, television series, etc.
- 16. The quality of forming a united whole.
- 17. A group discussion to produce ideas or solve problems.
- 18. The concept that people are prone to exert less effort on a task if they are in a group versus when they work alone. The idea of working in groups is typically seen as a way to improve the accomplishment of a task by pooling the skills and talents of the individuals in that group.
- 19. A small group of people brought together to discuss, investigate, or decide on a particular matter, especially in the context of business or government.
- 20. The informal rules that groups adopt to regulate and regularize group members' behavior. Although these norms are infrequently written down or openly discussed, they often have a powerful, and consistent, influence on group members' behavior
Down
- 1. A conference or meeting to discuss a particular subject.
- 2. A group of employees that meets regularly to consider ways of resolving problems and improving production in their organization.
- 3. Friends interact in groups but may be separated by classrooms or by oceans over social networking sites.
- 5. The ability of a manager to force an employee to follow an order by threatening the employee with punishment if the employee does not comply with the order.
- 6. The power of a manager to give some type of reward to an employee as a means to influence the employee to act. Rewards can be tangible or intangible.
- 7. A form of behavior therapy designed to help people stand up for themselves—to empower themselves, in more contemporary terms
- 9. A general agreement.
- 15. Power based upon employees' perception that a manager or some other member of an organization has a high level of knowledge or a specialized set of skills that other employees or members of the organization do not possess.