Management Communication assignment PDF

Running head: MANAGEMENT COMMUNICATION
Management Communication
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1MANAGEMENT COMMUNICATION
To: Alec Simpson
From: Christine Grey
Date: 12th April 2017
Subject: Leading and managing virtual teams
Virtual and remote working is the reality of modern workplaces. According to Hoch and
Kozlowski (2014), sound communication is the critical part for the success of virtual teams.
However, I have designed a new marketing virtual team, which is located at several places
like Sydney, Beijing, Mumbai and New York. In this memo, I am going to discuss about the
advantages as well as disadvantages of leading and managing a virtual team. It is also
important to identify some of the critical areas which need to be addressed while leading such
teams. In addition to this, I will provide some recommendations and finally the conclusion.
Let me first start by giving an introduction of virtual teams. A virtual team usually refers to
the group of individuals who perform together from various geographic areas by relying on
the communication technology, like FAX, video conferencing, email or other services to
collaborate. The term, in simpler way, refers to the work groups who work together across all
the organizational levels, asynchronously. Mukherjee et al. (2012) define the term as a group
of organizationally, geographically and time dispersed workers, who are brought together by
telecommunication and information technologies in order to accomplish organizational tasks.
Advantages
With the advancement of information technology, ever growing demand of the target
consumers, employee expectations, globalization and the ever increasing competitive
environment, organizations have started adopting the culture of virtual teams. The virtual
teams are growing into popularity and have their own benefits. At first, comes the