Applicability of Virtual Team in ABC

Running head: MANAGEMENT COMMUNICATION
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Introduction
Effectiveness of the virtual team depends on the differences in the organizational affairs
and business environments. This is due to the fact that some business environments are suitable
for the initiation of the virtual teams while some others are not. Hence, it is important to
determine the suitability of the business and organizational factors and initiate the virtual team
accordingly (Hertel & Krumm 2013). In the case of ABC, they are having traditional face to face
interactions process between their operations in different cities across the world. However, this is
time consuming and is fairly difficult to accumulate all the employees from different locations.
However, on the other hand, there are number of limitations also be faced by implementing the
virtual team.
This report will discuss about the applicability of the virtual team in ABC and how the
maximum utility can be achieved by coordinating between the traditional and virtual team
settings. Both the advantages and the disadvantages will be discussed in this report.
Advantages of virtual team
One of the major advantages of having virtual team is the interactive connections
between all the stakeholders across the globe. ABC is having their operations in Bangalore,
Shanghai, Melbourne and Los Angeles. Thus, they are having the need for managing the
coordination and cooperation among all the operations. In the case of their existing face to face
team based in Melbourne, holistic engagement of all the stakeholders from different operations is
not possible and hence consensus in the decision making process is not also possible (Redlich et
al. 2017). However, with the help of the virtual team, these geographical distances can be
mitigated. Moreover, with the help of the virtual team, views and opinions of all the stakeholders