580 Search Results for Understanding and Using Virtual Teams
Managing Professionals in Virtual Environment
As technology has evolved, the reality of virtual organizations has begun to take hold in a variety of industries. It is now commonplace for employees to work, at least in part, from offsite. Telecommuti Continue Reading...
Internet Usage on our Lives: A Critique of the Shallows
The pervasive adoption of the Internet continues to completely redefine the nature and scope of people's lives and their ability to communicate and collaborate globally. The Internet is also e Continue Reading...
Organizational Behavior
The relevance of understanding group behavior as well as group properties cannot be overstated. This is more so the case for those keen on becoming effective managers and/or members of various groups. Managers who happen to b Continue Reading...
Online Collaborative Tools
Collaboration is the focal point of business and its management in a workplace. Whereas effectual and sustainable collaboration needs face-to-face contact, the majority of the collaborative work usually depends on virtual Continue Reading...
Flexibility within a team scenario is very important as having a choice in creating favorable matchups is a luxury for many managers looking to create a competitive advantage and sustain an effective and efficient unit of teamwork.
Reflection on Le Continue Reading...
Helping the team members develop personally and professionally - both individually and as a team - is something in which any business should be invested. Happy employees are productive employees, and when teams are happy and focused, they are able Continue Reading...
Training and DevelopmentA two-day training program for a group of 20 employees might include instruction to address identified needs. These needs can be determined through a Training Needs Analysis (TNA). By considering factors such as previously com Continue Reading...
Team Building in the Workplace by Fapohunda Tinuke
Fapohunda, Tinuke
Effective Team Building in the Workplace
The article sets out eight important points identified by various other authors that promote effective team development. The eight point Continue Reading...
Cognitively Complex leadership teams influence School Culture and Student Performance?
Cognitive complexity
Neuman (1989) in his study defined cognitive complexity as a psychological variable or characteristic which defines how simple or complex t Continue Reading...
Why Telehealth and Virtual Healthcare Systems are More Important in the Age of COVID
Introduction
This firm can add value to a healthcare system like the VA or DoD healthcare facilities by updating them and bringing them into line with 21st century t Continue Reading...
Motivating Employees
When it comes to human resources and general management of employees, one of the major concerns that employers have always had is making and keeping employees motivated. However, there has been a major shift started in the workp Continue Reading...
Organizational Leaderships
Many corporations are progressively using teams in the realization of business goals because of the increased use of technology-enabled operations. Leading such groups can be particularly challenging, and much of the curre Continue Reading...
It has helped me learn how to designate and delineate authority regarding various individuals working on different aspects of a particular problem. It has certainly reinforced the value of teamwork and the notion that the collaborative process is of Continue Reading...
Senior Management Teams
Changes to Senior Management Teams
CEOs of Cisco Systems & Competitors
John Chambers -- Cisco. In 1991, Chambers joined Cisco Systems as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Operations. Promoted to President an Continue Reading...
Finally, Performing is the end-result where the group works effectively as a cohesive whole.
How would you compare the process of developing a virtual work team to developing a team of people who all work together in one place?
An offline encounte Continue Reading...
New Governance
Application to International Trade
Evaluation of New Governance
Application of New Governance to International Trade for Free Market
In today's robust world, scholars as well as the think tanks and tools of democracy and beaurcracy Continue Reading...
" The process feature revolves around "the general business process and practices that enable functional groups to operate effectively and collaborate toward a common goal - as well as a robust set of innovation methodologies and tools." Finally, the Continue Reading...
product or a service, and in general, a project would include all the risks and the constraints and the restrictions, as well as an idea about the costs involved for the particular problem or project that one is about to undertake. The schedule woul Continue Reading...
Individual Reflection on Team Experience
Evolution of the group/team over the term
Group/team dynamics
Group structure
Intergroup/intra-group conflict
According to Robert Harris, (2009) decision making is the process or the study of identifying Continue Reading...
It is important to realize that the level of technology investment at present is sufficient for the current project; this proposal does not necessarily advocate any additional spending on pure technology.
What this analysis pinpoints as a major are Continue Reading...
Learning Teams; Website Assigned Facilitator
E-Campus Website -- Phoenix.edu
The ecampus website that governs the user portal for the University of Phoenix is an aggressive and modern website design. The Phoenix brand has integrated a marketing app Continue Reading...
Managing Diversity
Team leadership issue: Managing diversity
Definition of the team leadership practice: Diversity management
One of the most contentious issues in management is the question of whether diversity helps or hinders team performance. Continue Reading...
HRM
The Difference between Teams and Groups and Issues Associated with Matrix Environments
Groups and Teams
Differences between Groups and Teams
Groups and teams have some commonalities, but there are also some significant differences. Both are c Continue Reading...
Communicating in the Virtual Workplace
Communication is an integral part of every workplace because it makes it possible for all the employees to work together as a cohesive unit. Globalization and Internet have dramatically changed the business env Continue Reading...
Nanotechnology attempted to show the potential of this new technology and included the wide range of fields that are connected to the concept of the nanometer scale. These include machining, imaging, metrology or measurement, micromachines, instrume Continue Reading...
Team Conflict Development and Team Dynamics
Organizational tasks are becoming increasingly complex and more involved; teams have become valuable for easier and more effective accomplishment of tasks (Chekwa & Thomas, 2013). Teamwork has turned o Continue Reading...
IntroductionOrganizing and managing a project team is critical to organization success in a much more globalized world. Due primarily to the interconnectedness of many firms throughout the world, organizations both small and large require very dynami Continue Reading...
Cultures in the Workplace
Kouzes and Posner (2012) state that leaders ensure individuals know they are taken into consideration and not being ignored (p.318). There are several different means of enhancing this kind of celebratory culture given the Continue Reading...
IT Management
Introduction Understanding Web 3.0 and the Future of Wirearchy
Web 3.0 refers to having a semantic web platform. With the immense amount of data available over the Internet, a form of connection needs to be created. Being able to shar Continue Reading...
Adult Education and the Internet
Higher Education, the Internet, and the Adult Learner
The concept of using the Internet in the pursuit of higher education is not exactly new. Indeed, the institution of "distance learning," has been in full swing s Continue Reading...
Earlier this month an Italian research team jointly authored a research article titled "Affective Basis of Judgment-Behavior Discrepancy in Virtual Experiences of Moral Dilemmas," with the results of their findings published in the scholarly journal Continue Reading...
Teaching philosophy tends to be very similar from person to person. However, it can also be very different from student to student that is preparing to be a teacher as well as the teachers who have complete their requisite teaching degrees. This is b Continue Reading...
It is also necessary for the state representatives to be able to identify and implement the most useful tools that safeguard their goals. "Unlike the final score for a game in which there is always one winner and one loser, winning at the negotiatin Continue Reading...
solution of the heterogeneous data integration problem is presented with the explanation if the criteria to be employed in the approval of the validity. The tools to be used are also indicated.
The proposed solution is to use semantic web technolog Continue Reading...
Many other organizations around the world have received benefits from the use of teams in the production and operations management. A clear example is Starbucks. Teamwork is a core value for Starbucks and is one of the key reasons for the company's Continue Reading...
More specifically, because the potential for miscommunication, misunderstanding, and pejorative or other negative interpretations is so much greater in remote communications especially through email (SHRM, 2010), the implications of failure to estab Continue Reading...
Leader-Member Exchange Theory offers three key tasks that define the relationships between leaders and employees. These are role-taking, where managers assign roles to new team members; role-making, where managers begin to define the roles of team me Continue Reading...
OB & PM
Virtual project teams: How to make them work
One of the most recent legacies of the explosion of Internet technology is that of the virtual project team: a workplace team that does not work together in real space or even real time, but Continue Reading...
project team disaster/failure is unfortunate overall preparation. When impracticable goalmouths are set, generating a disordered working environment there is nothing but absolute disappointment in the immediate future. Generally one may experience t Continue Reading...