Trends in Global Business: Encouraging Team Collaboration and Addressing Privacy Issues

STUDENT NAME
INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION(S)
TRENDS IN GLOBAL
BUSINESS

Table of Contents
Introduction...................................................................................................................2
Team collaboration.......................................................................................................2
Objectives behind team development..........................................................................3
Significance behind individual abilities in teamwork.....................................................4
Encouraging team collaboration in contemporary workplaces.....................................5
Privacy issues in team collaborations..........................................................................6
Conclusion....................................................................................................................7
References...................................................................................................................8
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Is the ability of individuals to work in a team important and how is
collaboration encouraged? Or is privacy an issue that precludes
collaboration?
Introduction
Team collaboration can be defined as a multi-level procedure in which
individuals engage themselves to work for team-level tasks or for accomplishing
teamwork objectives. Taskwork refers to those tasks that are either performed
collectively or individually and are usually assisted with various tools and elements
whereas, teamwork are those interpersonal interactions that takes place within team
members while performing a specific task. It can be assumed that effective teams
are characterised by smooth flow of communication along with collaboration among
individual team members and is henceforth recognised as team effectiveness that
can further be measured by various ways like members satisfaction and individual
abilities for team performance (Hwang, 2018). Behaviour seen among team
members along with individual contributions made in collaborated teams is also an
area of great interest that helps in understanding how effective teams work without
considering privacy issue. Or, whether they face privacy issues that tends to
preclude team collaboration? The purpose behind preparing this research paper is to
find out whether ability of individuals important while working in a team in global
businesses. This paper will examine current literature to identify benefits and issues
in team collaboration along with finding how individuals can be encouraged to
develop a collaborated team. This report examines privacy related issues that
usually precludes team collaboration and finds that privacy issue does not
considerably impacts team collaboration rather develops specific policies through
which team members share sensitive information with each other’s. After reviewing
credible sources and published articles, this report will find ways through which
collaborated teams can be managed in spite facing privacy or other issues.
Team collaboration
Alghamdi & Bach (2018) states that collaborated teams are often
misinterpreted with a simpler notion in an organisational setting like “working in
groups”. To understand the concept in clearer way, it is significant to recognise
teamwork vision before ascertaining team development by employers. According to
Nancarrow, et al. (2013), “Collaboration is acknowledged as an important component
of team processes” (p. 2) in which two or more individuals exchanges ideas
interpedently to achieve a shared and valued goal and have been assigned specific
roles to perform in the team. Practically, the development of collaborated team
should be creation of work and synergy for accomplishing common objectives and
thus teamwork in global organisations, regardless of the business type, serves one
common purpose which is motivating employees to improves organisational culture
and competencies. Alghamdi & Bach (2018) opined that collaborated teams can be
referred to as a process of forming different groups comprising individuals who
poses different skills, complementing each other while they share a focused
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