131 Search Results for the formation of virtual teams
Emotional intelligence and high Virtual team performance
Background
The contemporary business environment is competitive just as much as I is creative in nature. The globalization and its influences have pushed the business environment to greater hei Continue Reading...
Virtual Teams in Organization
Research Questions
The fundamental research question is to examine the deliberations, advantages, and disadvantages of virtual teams in organizations. Deliberations in this regard take into account a question on the mann Continue Reading...
Articles Compared
The author of this brief report has been tasked with comparing and contrasting two articles that are about the same subject. The general topic that is in question would be virtual teams. The drill-down sub-topic that will be the fo Continue Reading...
The U.S., Army Logistics Network has defined specific pricing and costing levels by rank, and strives to push accountability and responsibility as far down the chain of command as possible. As nearly every officer who acts as a buyer within the purc Continue Reading...
Team Norms," author Karten (2003) discussed the importance of social norms in improving performance in teams within a business organization. Technically, Karten defined it as a concept "that concern(s) how team members will interact, communicate, an Continue Reading...
Lipnack & Stamps (1999) conducted a study in which they examined the emergence of virtual teams as a new modality for working. The study was carried out on the premise that the emergence of the Information Age has contributed to the advent of a w Continue Reading...
Virtual and Face-to-Face Communication
With the advent of the internet and other related technologies, many organizations have embarked to the formation of virtual teams to complement the traditional face-to-face groups .these teams comprise of geog Continue Reading...
International Management: Managing Global Virtual Teams
The global fiber optic network and the internet have played a key role in the development of long-distance communication, which has facilitated work interactions among people from all over the Continue Reading...
To violate or doubt the intentions of team members is to invite isolationism, and eventually the balkanization and break up of the group if it goes on too long (Sager, 2008). This is a delicate balance for any manager to keep, as they are expected t Continue Reading...
Teams
Analysis of Self-Managed Work Teams
The autonomy of work teams has increasingly become a necessity in many enterprises who rely on a depth of expertise, experience and wealth of knowledge that their knowledge-rich employees provide (Roper, Ph Continue Reading...
It is important to ensure that the team for any specific task comprises members who are knowledgeable and posses the required skills needed to carry out the task. Teams should also try to work across organizational boundaries/levels and break down 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...
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...
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...
Super-violence is a new term that defines violence in a grand and exaggerating way. (Klare 16) Seen as an era of constant warfare and violence, it has made its way into entertainment and media. Whether it is chopping the heads of people and seeing th 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...
In other words, the emphasis is on effective leadership and increased revenue for the company as a whole, which ultimately benefit individual managers as well.
Like cross-functional teams, self-managed teams also need specific models to ensure succ Continue Reading...
Project Management Involved Formation of Airbus
Project Management involved in Formation of Airbus
The report investigates factors that led to the A380 project crisis. Analysis of the project revealed that Airbus did not integrate an effective proj Continue Reading...
Communicating in the Virtual Workplace: Analyzing Messages
Effective communication is crucial to the success of any organization. It plays a significant role in the planning and control of organizational resources, and is, therefore, essential for t Continue Reading...
Building an Effective Technology Support Team
Creating and managing an effective technology support team needs to be predicated on more than just the traditional four areas of planning, organizing, leading and controlling and include the critical sk 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...
The selection of a leader is crucial for a team to attain its objectives.
A second best practice is using conflict to drive a team forward rather than let it become an inhibitor to overall progress. As the book, course materials and readings illust 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...
Email was found to be a key culprit in the development of cultural misunderstandings among a diverse group of online users (Rainey, 2000). Stereotypes were found to interfere with online communication, and enhance the potential for cultural misunde Continue Reading...
Quantitative proposal: The use of Emotional Intelligence in targeted Virtual team sales
With the globalization, the world has become a global village through the facilitation of the ever changing and improving information technology. Just like natio 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...
Work Teams
Today, work teams are increasingly being seen as an effective way of enhancing employee satisfaction and organizational productivity. However, though quite a number of organizations have benefited by embracing work teams, others have not Continue Reading...
Contingency Theory and Global Leadership
JUST HOW APT
Contingency Theory Emphasizes
Problems and Issues in Global Situations
The contingency theory of leadership fits the leader to the situation (Northouse, 2012). It tests his effectiveness on th Continue Reading...
Although intranet pages may provide links to the Internet, an intranet is not a site accessed by the general public" (Housel and Hom, 1999).
Aside from the intranet, the company also uses a wide array of anti-virus programs, firewalls and virtual p Continue Reading...
To be successful in the 21st century, Waggoner-Edstrom must transform distance and time constraints into advantages, by creating a virtual team and telecommuting organizational structure.
Background
Overview of Research Process
The following is a Continue Reading...
Research Proposal: Remote Work and the Leadership Pipeline through the Lens of Impression ManagementIntroductionRemote work has become a staple in many organizations, particularly in the wake of COVID-19 lockdowns, which introduced remote work in a b Continue Reading...
Leadership-Level Implementation of Strategic Plan
Good leadership is a key aspect of project management. Leading a project requires working with the manager and other staff drawn from the project's functional areas. It is not accurate to say that a Continue Reading...
Social Media as a Potential Tool in Conflict Resolution: A Facebook Perspective
Humans are social animals, and will usually dwell together in communities, based on their beliefs, resources, preferences, needs, risks, and a number of other conditions Continue Reading...
Supply Chain Management
Hypothesis defined
Concepts of SCM and the evolution to its present day form
Critical factors that affect SCM
Trust
Information sharing and Knowledge management
Culture and Belief -- impact on SCM
Global environment and Continue Reading...
This focus on the positive benefits of consumer word of mouth behaviour is a natural tendency. I certainly like to think that positive comments have a greater impact on my decisions than negative comments. In fact, the respondents to the survey repo Continue Reading...
A particular individual might look for a solution to a problem which will have a least effect on the organization, whereas another individual might look for a solution to shake the organization. (Scott, 2007)
4) if a team is not at its most efficie Continue Reading...
But the truth is it boils down to one thing: Teamwork and Unity. With it everything comes along, sense of responsibility, accountability and concern.
Team is a cooperative unit composed of people with complimentary skill committed to a common purpo Continue Reading...
EMC Corporation Analysis
How would you describe the core competency of EMC Corp? What is the significance of understanding core competencies? Do core competencies provide competitive advantages or value to organizations?
The core competency of EMC Continue Reading...
Yahoo!
A Critical Analysis
Yahoo! History
Problem Areas for Yahoo
Search Engine Industry Review
Yahoo! In the Light of Porter's Theory
Threat of New Entrants
Threat of Substitutes
Bargaining Power of Suppliers
Bargaining Power of Customer
C Continue Reading...
Organizational culture change is noted by Kotler et al. .(1996) noted to be a common aspect of every organization. This is due to the fact that change is the only thing that can be said to be constant in any given organization. Organizational change Continue Reading...