Team Performance, Professionalism & Ethics is one of 8 topics in the Grade 12 Business Studies CAPS syllabus, covered across 3 lessons on Study Vault. Below are real practice questions from this topic with full worked answers.
Sample practice questions
Easy
1. During which stage of team development do differences of opinion, conflict, and competition for roles commonly emerge?
Storming
Forming
Norming
Performing
Answer: Storming — The storming stage is when the team works through conflict, differing opinions, and role competition as it figures out how to function together.
Easy
2. During which stage does a team work efficiently and collaboratively with established trust and clear roles?
Performing
Forming
Storming
Norming
Answer: Performing — The performing stage is when the team, having established norms and resolved earlier conflict, works efficiently and collaboratively toward its shared goal.
Medium
3. What term describes the situation where some team members do far more work than others while contributing unequally, discouraging fair effort?
Answer: Social loafing — Social loafing refers to some team members contributing significantly less than others while still benefiting from the team's overall output, a common barrier to effective team performance.
