TEAM & LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

Team & Leadership Development

Team & Leadership Development

Concept of Virtual Teams into an Organizational Culture

Swift changes have taken place in companies' business environment at the turn of the century. Working in this very unexpected and fast changing business environment, where all of the rival have equivalent professional capability, puts pressure on companies to lessen constantly overall costs, increase potency of all operations, accomplish far greater suppleness as ever before as well as be able to quick reply to clientele' anticipation.

In this situation enterprises generally reach for knowledge and communication technology, as tools which let them respond almost immediately to reorganization in their business and mature into a real-time venture. Based on technology application, they try to implement new business models and institute new establishment forms (Ilgen 1999).

Such a new business model is virtual organization. Even though concept of virtual organizing, which is a response of concurrent enterprises to stipulations of the marketplace, has been frequently talked about in recent years, not all aspects were given the equivalent focus (McGrath 2004).

The most frequently brought up issues consist of, role of enabling technologies, stages of virtualization, strengths and weaknesses of virtual organizations, business network strategy, coordination aspects, communication across virtual teams or capability of virtual organization.

The virtual based teams really are teams of trainees, who render work assignments set, for example, within a real-life project or within a segment of a functional organization. Job commitments exacerbate the learning of new individual as well as team capacity. For the virtual based team members the main task is their work and the responsibility to chip in to the team performance, learning results by reason of the work in conclusion is a fixed problem-solving venture.

Virtual or Distant Learning Teams

New technologies have made it possible to disaggregate, delegate, and manage work at much more decentralized and refined levels not only within an enterprise but across enterprises at a scale and scope never feasible before (Colarelli Boos 2002)."

Setting up a Virtual or Distance Working team

VeriFone, Inc. is an example of what being virtual is all about? All employees are close to their customer and there is no headquarters, or for that matter, a building. The workplace is where the employee is. The technology that supports VeriFone's knowledge sharing consists of e-mail, on-line company information, a 24-hour on-line community, and network access from anywhere in the world. There are no paper memos and no secretaries. VeriFone's central knowledge 'pump' is, “Tell me what you are interested in and I will bring it to you.”

Areas identified for setting up a Virtual or Distance Team

Two major areas identified when setting up a virtual office are:

Information Technology

Future holds much hidden facts and the world is moving rapidly towards uncovering them. The future will hold remote offices, people sitting at exotic places while working and a holiday for the whole life. Not So. The competition is certain to get tough and surely every one will be in a tough fight for ...