Biases and Judgement

Biases and Judgement

Introduction

In a globalized world, organizations tend to geographic expansion of their businesses being located in those territories allow better use of the advantages Comparative they offer and the conquest of new markets. This implies recourse to strategic business forms ranging from creation of subsidiaries, branches or divisions, to associations, alliances, mergers and acquisitions. The need to develop projects and make decisions strategic teams should not be entirely limited by distances. Today, information technology and ICTs do away with the obligation to match the time and space to members of a team. The email, telephony, intranet and extranet as well as the videoconferencing, are valid means for networking between groups of people working towards a common goal without spend time and money on them coincide in one place at one time.

Theoretical Framework

Globalization and a market that increasingly demands more rapid responses have led to dramatic changes in formats work, so that traditional forms of work have led to the development of teamwork to distance. It is not essential that people are in the same place to work together in a common purpose. However, remote teamwork involves problems about gaps in the use of technology, communication and coordination between team members being required by such that new forms of work organization to overcome these difficulties. The purpose of this study is to describe the human difficulties faced by remote teamwork and propose to make them more effective strategies (Tabachnink & Koivukoski, 2004).

Given the distances, ICTs allow time savings achieved and money building the capacities of members of an organization or organizations in different geographical locations distant. The team work under these conditions can be even without match in the same time. According to Gothelf “A virtual team is a group of people who works interdependently with a shared purpose, beyond the frontiers of space, time and limits organizational, using information technology and communication to interact." For Corrales, virtual teams are groups with members geographically and / or organizationally dispersed are coupled using the combination of telecommunications and technology information to carry out organizational tasks. Under these definitions, virtual teams have the following characteristics:

• Members are physically or geographically dispersed.

• Members can be of the same organization or different organizations.

• They are interconnected electronically.

• They tend to be functional and / or culturally diverse.

• are interrelated horizontally.

• Meetings or workshops can be synchronous or Asynchronous time.

According to Lipnack and Stamps, virtual teams are defined as such in that their exchanges are given in cyberspace digital space or virtual space, but their existence and their work is real. However, their form of interaction is an impersonal due to the use of technologies. In contrast, in the equipment conventional face to face contact allows members have data from which to build their perceptions, not present data on virtual machines. These data are variables relate to nonverbal communication (Ong & Collier, 2005).

In practice, the most obvious example of the verbal variable gestural communication ...