Be particularly sensitive to ________________ across cultures

Jim is the daytime supervisor for an automobile assembly line. He supervises 45 people who perform relatively routine jobs that require minimal training. The shop is unionized, so Jim has little latitude when it comes to dismissing poor performers. However, he does have the authority to transfer employees and has been known to reassign poor performers to less desirable jobs on the assembly line. Jim has a reputation for only transferring employees with just cause, and generally is viewed as a fair supervisor by his employees. Although he would like greater autonomy to determine salaries, Jim generally divides bonuses and raises equally among his employees. To do otherwise would likely create conflict with union members and representatives. According to Fiedler's Contingency Model, how

would you characterize the level of situational control in these circumstances? a. Negligible b. Moderate c. Low d. High e. Absolute

Yoshi is charged with the task of forming a high-functioning work team. To accomplish this task, he must consider all of the following EXCEPT ________

A) whether the team should be large or small B) the time frame in which a team will work C) how other teams in his company were created D) whether the team is being created formally or informally E) whether the team will be required to provide updates and progress reports