Bert is the ʺclownʺ of his small group. At first, group members found him funny; later, they began to resent his practical joking and constant lack of seriousness. This group’s situation might best be described as:

A. poor group leadership.
B. a conflict between an individual role and group goals.
C. lack of an adequate agenda for the group.
D. abuse of the RISK technique.

Option B = a conflict between an individual role and group goals.

Explanation:

In the question above we can see that one out of the group members( Bert) make fun of almost everything and at first the other members in the group look at Bert as a someone that is so funny but later they are do not love his CONSTANT jokes and unseriousness anymore.

The reason the other group members became unhappy with Bert is because Bert is not abiding with the group goals. Bert role in the group was never to be unserious but that is what he is doing so there will surely be a Conflict between Bert roles in the group and the group goals. Work is work, there is no harm in little fun though, but work is always work that is the reason they brought the group together in the first place.

the earth’s crust is broken into separate pieces called tectonic plates (fig. 7.14). recall that the crust is the solid, rocky, outer shell of the planet. it is composed of two distinctly different types of material: the less-dense continental crust and the more-dense oceanic crust. both types of crust rest atop solid, upper mantle material. the upper mantle, in turn, floats on a denser layer of lower mantle that is much like thick molten tar.

each tectonic plate is free-floating and can move independently. earthquakes and volcanoes are the direct result of the movement of tectonic plates at fault lines. the term fault is used to describe the boundary between tectonic plates. most of the earthquakes and volcanoes around the pacific ocean basin—a pattern known as the “ring of fire”—are due to the movement of tectonic plates in this region. other observable results of short-term plate movement include the gradual widening of the great rift lakes in eastern africa and the rising of the himalayan mountain range. the motion of plates can be described in four general patterns:

collision: when two continental plates are shoved together

subduction: when one plate plunges beneath another (fig. 7.15)

spreading: when two plates are pushed apart (fig. 7.15)

transform faulting: when two plates slide past each other (fig. 7.15)