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Virtual Teams Sun Microsystems
1,692 wordsA powerful requirement for businesses to effectively compete in todays global market place is the ability for collaboration between business units, work teams and individuals. The value of collaboration is its potential to contribute toward increasing productivity, reducing costs, growing profit and improve service or product quality (Alan, M. , 1994). Technology that has been designed to support collaborative group work is referred to as groupware. This impacts on the way people communicate wit...
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Virtual Teams Knowledge Management
1,650 words... tools for detecting and resolving product incompatibilities once they are in the field. " While these problems have not been totally solved and additional world-wide situations continue to arise, such significant progress has been made by the team that they are continuing operation into the second year (Lipnack and Stamps, 1997). The teams mentioned above have had success; however, a few of the team efforts at Sun Systems have failed although none were a complete disaster. Overall, the virtu...
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Distributed Project Management A Proposal For Change
1,437 words... roject team. The two approaches they put forward are an attempt to avoid breakdowns due to language use and unfamiliar style of carrying out conversations. The first approach is to give the benefit of the doubt. That is, the members of the team must understand that other team members do come from other cultural backgrounds and may have unique or different methods of communicating. The second approach is to avoid using language / expressions that remote [team] members [are] not familiar with,...
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Nonverbal Cues Virtual Teams
1,915 wordsVirtual Team Virtual Team Table of Contents Introduction Characteristics of Virtual Teams Use of Virtual Teams Team Identification and Group Membership Influence in Virtual Teams Conclusion Bibliography Introduction As the nature of business operations becomes more global and dynamic, the manner in which the work is carried out changes as well. With the advances in communication and information technology, virtual teams have emerged as a new breed of team structure in many multi-national compani...
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Virtual Teams Team Members
1,976 words... Johansen). For teams that have a greater degree of spatial distance separating them (as with a transnational team), the likelihood of members seeing one another may be smaller than for those for which the distance is smaller. However, merely seeing the faces of other team members has been shown to have a positive effect on the salience of team identity (Shapiro et al. ). If the team is a global one there may be less opportunity for virtual team members to meet one another face-to-face, parti...
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