Question

Skunkworks appeared to have ________ task interdependence, while the Levittown builder seemed to have ________ task interdependence. Multiple Choice comprehensive; sequential pooled; comprehensive reciprocal; pooled sequential; reciprocal pooled; reciprocal

Answer 1

The article upon which the question is based on:

The Skunk Works home page describes this team best: "What do the world’s first stealth aircraft, the world’s most advanced fighters, and the world’s fastest manned aircraft have in common? They were all imagined by ‘Skunks’—some of the most innovative, strategic, and visionary thinkers around." Kelly Johnson was permitted to build an experimental engineering department in 1943, and the rest is history. The small-staffed unit was organized by integrating designers with builders, working together so that ideas were buildable, with limited visitors allowed from the outside. The impressive results are many, including the U-2, the world’s first spy plane, and the SR-71 Blackbird, the world’s fastest, highest-flying aircraft.

Answer:

1. comprehensive

2. sequential

Explanation:

Skunkworks appeared to have COMPREHENSIVE task interdependence, while the Levittown builder seemed to have SEQUENTIAL task interdependence.

This is based on the idea that Skunkworks acknowledges the powers of interaction and coordination of team members and while Levittown builders work on gradual working arrangement as one input of part A becomes the input of part B, and it goes on.