Building High Performance Virtual Teams: Strategies and Factors

Business level Strategy / Generic Strategies
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Introduction
A virtual team can be described as an individual’s group working across time, space, and
organizational boundaries based on links that are empowered through the networking of
communication technology. According to Shubhi & Pathak (2018), this kind of teams empowers
organizations in recruiting and retaining the best talents irrespective of their geographic
locations.
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Discussion
Building High performance Virtual teams
According to Dube & Marnewick (2016), in today’s contemporary workplace models virtual
teams have emerged as the new trend and effectively running them has fast become a major
challenge for organizations with managers of virtual teams facing a key hurdle in the form of
earning trusts besides complications in cultivating a shared sense of purpose, low unity and trust
amidst team members and less satisfaction compared to traditional teams. High performance
virtual team can be built by
Creating opportunities for knowing the team members: learning about the team members’
hobbies and life beyond workplaces is benefiting besides starting meeting with opportunities for
having “small-talk” like what they do for fun or when they are at their best etc. can greatly
influence the social bonds amidst them.
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