Virtual Teams: Advantages and Importance for Organizations

Running head: ESSAY
ESSAY
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ESSAY
Persuasive essay Topic: What will your advice be to the Marketing Director? Will you
argue for the creation of a new virtual marketing team or argue to keep the central more
traditional face-to-face (F2F) marketing team in Melbourne?
Introduction
The business environment is very dynamic in nature and with respect to this, it becomes
considerably important for the different organizations to ensure that they have capable teams
which will work towards the overall goals of the organization, and coordinate amongst
themselves to ensure that the overall goals of the firm are achieved (Gilson et al. 2015).
However, as the different branches of an organization are located in different parts of the world,
the concept of virtual teams have become considerably popular. The main aim of the essay is to
present an argument for the use of Virtual teams for the organization which ensures that the
communication among the main centres can be maintained successfully.
Arguments
The primary reason why the virtual teams are better teams because they are affordable in
nature. Maintaining the team is not an easy task and with respect to this, it is required to be
understood that, the maintenance of a virtual team is comparatively affordable. This is because
all the team members are located at different parts of the world and are connected with the
medium of the internet (Guinalíu and Jordán 2016). Hence, with respect to this, if the
organization goes for the concept of a virtual team, they will be able to save costs and gain the
required expertise for themselves. In addition to this, apart from being a cheap alternative, the
virtual team helps in the accumulation of the world`s best talent. It may not be necessary that all
the talented members may be present in a single country and hence, by using virtual teams, the