[originaltext] Changing technology and markets have stimulated the team appr

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问题  
Changing technology and markets have stimulated the team approach to management. Inflation, resource scarcity, reduced personnel levels and budget cuts have all underscore the need for better coordination in organizations. Team management provides for this coordination. Team management calls for new skills if personnel potential is to be fully realized. Although a team may be composed of knowledgeable people, they must learn new ways of relating and working together to solve cross-functional problems. When teams consist of experienced employees from hierarchical organizations who have been conditioned to traditional organizational culture, cooperation may not occur naturally. It may need to be created. Furthermore, the issue is not just how the team can function more effectively, but how it integrates with the overall organization or society that it supposedly serves. A group of individuals is not automatically a team. Therefore, team building may be necessary in order to improve the group’s performance. Casey, an expert in this field, suggests that the cooperation process within teams must be organized, promoted and managed. He believes that team corporation results when members go beyond their individual capabilities, beyond what each is used to being and doing. Together, the team may then produce something new, unique and superior to that of any one member. For this to happen, he suggests the multi-cultural managers exhibit understanding of their own and other’s cultural influences and limitations. They should also cultivate such skills as toleration of ambiguity, persistence and patience, as well as assertedness. If a team manager exemplifies such qualities, then the team, as a whole, would be better able to realize their potential and achieve their objectives.
16. What should team members do to fully realize their potential?
17. What needs to be considered for effective team management?
18. What conclusion can we draw from what Casey says?

选项 A、A team manager must set very clear and high objectives.
B、Teams must consist of members from different cultures.
C、Team members should be knowledgeable and creative.
D、A team manager should develop a certain set of skills.

答案 D

解析 四个选项的意思分别为A)“团队经理必须设立清晰且较高的目标”、B)“团队必须包含有不同文化背景的队员”、C)“团队成员应该知识丰富,并富有创造性”和D)“团队经理应该具备某些特定的技能”,其中有两项都提到了团队经理,可以初步判断本题考查的内容极有可能与团队经理所应该具备的素质或是其所应该承担的责任有关。短文中提到按照Casey的看法,如果团队经理能够展示出他所提到的各种素质,整个团队就能够更好地发挥潜力,实现目标。也就是说,团队经理应该具备某些特定的素质。
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