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Module 4 Challenge (Project Execution: Running the Project) Answers 2025

Question 1

Which of the following are true of work groups? (Select all that apply.)

  • Their work is independent of a managerial hierarchy.

  • Their work is coordinated or controlled by a single person or entity. ✅

  • They work with minimal oversight.

  • They work toward a common goal. ✅

🔹 Explanation: Work groups are coordinated under one entity and united by a common goal.

Question 2

As a project manager, you want to create an environment where teammates are reliable and able to complete their work on time. Which of the five elements of effective teams does this represent?

  • Structure and clarity

  • Impact

  • Psychological safety

  • Dependability ✅

🔹 Explanation: Dependability = teammates reliably deliver on time.

Question 3

Your project team just launched a new website. You schedule time for your team to meet and you treat them to lunch. Which aspect of effective team building does this scenario demonstrate?

  • Promote trust and psychological safety.

  • Celebrate team success. ✅

  • Delegate responsibility and prioritize tasks.

  • Communicate and listen.

🔹 Explanation: Treating the team to lunch after a milestone celebrates success.

Question 4

How can project managers appreciate a team’s hard work after they complete milestones in a project?

  • Assign more tasks to team members for the next milestone.

  • Complete a performance review for the team members.

  • Schedule a team meeting to review retrospectives.

  • Schedule a team meeting to go out for lunch. ✅

🔹 Explanation: A lunch or event shows appreciation and boosts morale.

Question 5

You complete a project, celebrate a job well done, and release all team members to their next assignment. What is this stage of Bruce Tuckman’s five stages of team development?

  • Adjourning ✅

  • Norming

  • Storming

  • Forming

🔹 Explanation: Adjourning happens when the team disbands after completion.

Question 6

What can project managers do to support ethical and inclusive leadership? (Select all that apply.)

  • Invite and integrate diverse perspectives. ✅

  • Foster a culture of respect. ✅

  • Create equal opportunities for team members to succeed. ✅

  • Delegate tasks and motivate team members.

🔹 Explanation: These actions ensure fairness and inclusion.

Question 7

Which of the following are common mistakes a person makes when attempting to influence others? (Select all that apply.)

  • Resist compromise ✅

  • Approach their audience too aggressively. ✅

  • Connect emotionally with their audience.

  • Assume they can work through issues quickly ✅

🔹 Explanation: Aggression, no compromise, and rushing solutions reduce influence.

Question 8

Which source of organizational power refers to the people you are connected with professionally and personally?

  • Character

  • Role

  • Network ✅

  • Reputation

🔹 Explanation: Network power comes from your connections.

Question 9

Which of the following are steps in the ethical decision-making framework developed by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics? (Select all that apply.)

  • Get the facts. ✅

  • Recognize an ethical issue. ✅

  • Evaluate alternative actions. ✅

  • Weigh the benefits.

🔹 Explanation: These three steps form the ethical decision-making base.

Question 10

Which of the following are strategies a project manager can use to provide air cover for their team? (Select all that apply.)

  • Increase the project’s scope to satisfy stakeholder requests.

  • Take on tasks when stakeholders request additional work.

  • Reject a stakeholder request without explicitly saying “no.” ✅

  • Limit teammates’ knowledge of stakeholder requests.

🔹 Explanation: Providing air cover means diplomatically protecting your team — not taking on more scope yourself or withholding info.

✅ Summary of Correct Answers

  • Q1: Controlled by single person/entity; Work toward a common goal

  • Q2: Dependability

  • Q3: Celebrate team success

  • Q4: Schedule team lunch

  • Q5: Adjourning

  • Q6: Diverse perspectives; Respect; Equal opportunities

  • Q7: Resist compromise; Approach too aggressively; Assume quick fixes

  • Q8: Network

  • Q9: Get the facts; Recognize ethical issue; Evaluate alternative actions

  • Q10: Reject stakeholder request without explicitly saying “no.”