Organisational Behaviour: Problems and Solutions for Virtual Team Management

Running Head: ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR 0
Organisational
Behavior

ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR 1
Contents
Problems of Johnson.............................................................................................................................2
Solutions for the product launch...........................................................................................................2
Selection of effective team....................................................................................................................3
Conclusion.............................................................................................................................................4
References.............................................................................................................................................5

ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR 2
Problems of Johnson
Johnson is facing several issues while leading a virtual team of different cultural
background. All the problems arise due to the launch of new product within a time of six
weeks that is too short to manage. The usual time taken for the new product is three month
that has created a problem for Johnson to assist the virtual team. Due to the involvement of
diversified members, culture diversity is one of the major issues for Johnson. All the
members use different communication styles that have created the problem. Members from
different cultural background are having different perception about the task. In this way, it
was difficult for Johnson to agree all the team members’ at one point. Some of the members
prefer doing telecommunication while some prefers communication in oral or written form.
When team operates in different location, every member has different time as per his
or her location. Due to this, Johnson was not able to communicate effectively on time. Due to
the urgent launch of product, it is required by Johnson to communicate on continuation basis.
Therefore, Johnson was not able to effectively guide its members due to these communication
barriers. In addition to this, there were various conflicts existing among the three members of
the team. The conflict was due to the mission of the members. These three members were not
agreeing from the actual mission (Jang, 2017). Everyone was having different perspective
regarding the mission statement in the group. Besides this, the decision-making of the team
members was quite slow that might delay the making of new product in given time. Besides
this, there is no adequate and proper structure for promoting teamwork and unity in the
virtual team. Due to lack of person meeting of team members, communication problem was
at peak.
Solutions for the product launch
Despite of the various problems, Johnson has to take some short-term measures for
launching the product in six weeks. He must take the sensitive leadership approach to handle
the members of different cultural background. It is rightly stated that when the problems are
large, divide it in small slots so that it can be solved easily. The same approach can be taken
by Johnson to solve the various problems that it is facing in leading virtual team. Training is
also one such effective method for assisting the team members. Due to non-availability of
team members at one place, it is not possible to take the face-to-face training session.
Through the help of video conferring, it can assist the members regarding the problems that