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Challenges Managing Global Teams

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Challenges Managing Global Teams

   Added on 2020-04-01

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Challenges Managing Global Teams 1CHALLENGES MANAGING GLOBAL TEAMSCourseTutorInstitutional AffiliationDate
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Challenges Managing Global Teams 2Table of ContentsIntroduction......................................................................................................................................2Project Objective.............................................................................................................................3Project Scope...................................................................................................................................3Literature Review............................................................................................................................3Hypothesis.......................................................................................................................................6Research Design and Methodology.................................................................................................6Research Limitations.......................................................................................................................8Time Schedule.................................................................................................................................8Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................9References......................................................................................................................................10Appendix........................................................................................................................................12Appendix A: Interview Questions.............................................................................................12
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Challenges Managing Global Teams 3CHALLENGES MANAGING GLOBAL TEAMSIntroductionMultinational companies use the global team as a strategic solution to its growth aroundthe globe. These groups are formed in different cultural and geographical boundaries. The goal isto improve organizational performance and enhance expertise and innovations irrespective ofdifferent geographic locations. It integrates diverse knowledge from different parts of the firm,achieving efficiency through around the clock work across different time zones and reducing thecost of travel, access to customers and local markets. Global teams help an organization in coordinating the work favoritism, it comes alongwith different challenges which need to teamwork. These challenges. Researchers have found anumber of challenges over the last decade in managing global teams as well as. These challengesare mostly consisting of sharing knowledge, communication, different cultures, and differenttime zones. However, researchers and practitioners have identified various interpersonalmechanisms which can overcome or decrease the effect of these challenges in global teams(Hinds, Neeley & Cramton 2014, 540). The literature review consists of different challenges thatcan exist in a global team. The study of these challenges has been supported by literature fromresearches and scholars. The literature review also suggests some interpersonal mechanisms thatcan help to overcome the challenges a global team may face. Project ObjectiveThe objective of this is to understand and learn the challenges in the global team and howthese challenges can researchers. Also, this project will help us enable to learn international
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Challenges Managing Global Teams 4human resource theories as well. One of the key objectives of this project is to learn how to makea business research proposal.Project ScopeThis research involves the investigation of changes and challenges which have beenobserved in the landscape of global teams. The research seeks to study the challenges that theteam faces and the changes they have embraced to counter the challenges. Apart fromconducting a research through leaders of this teams, the study will also employ the use ofavailable literature on the challenges faced by global teams. The research is therefore anticipatedto mitigate issues which arise due to diversity in culture and use of virtual communication bymembers of global teams including the leaders. Literature ReviewGlobal clockwork has many challenges as this literature has identified. According toCramton and Hinds (2014, 1059), it is important to differentiate the distributed teams whichcome together to form one global team. Global teams are multi-national, multi-cultural anddistributed. Nowadays, these teams heavily rely on technology which comes in the form ofelectronic communication and they include virtual conferences. According to Shipper, Manz andStewart (2013), global teams face many challenges even though they have adopted the use oftechnology because mainly, the outcomes of these teams are based on factors which may arisedue to differences in time zones, background, geography, cultures and even fluency in alanguage. The difference in culture is a major issue for remote teams because conflict tends toarise due to diversity in values attitudes and behaviors.
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