Managing and Leading Virtual Teams: Advantages, Disadvantages, and Recommendations

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1MANAGEMENT COMMUNICATION
To: Alec Johnson
From: Christine Simpson
Date: 10th August 2018
Subject: Managing and leading virtual teams
Remote as well as virtual working is regarded as the reality of the modern workplace. As per
Dulebohn and Hoch (2017), good communication is regarded as the vital part for the overall
success of any business and most importantly, for virtual or global teams. For this purpose,
the company has decided to design a new virtual team for marketing that is located at various
places like Beijing, Sydney, New York and Mumbai. This memo will be discussing about
several advantages and disadvantages of managing as well as leading a global or virtual team.
Moreover, it is immensely important to take some critical areas into consideration, which
should be addressed in order to lead such virtual teams. Additionally, the memo will also
include some recommendations for the betterment of the company and finally, a conclusion.
To begin with, it is important to give a brief introduction of what a virtual team actually is. A
global or virtual team can be considered as the most important part of any business.
Generally, a virtual team comprises a group of people, who perform their activities together
from different geographic areas. Mostly, they rely on to the communication technologies, like
video conferencing, email, FAX or other services in order to collaborate and communicate. In
simpler terms, it refers to the working groups, who perform or work together all across the
levels of organization, asynchronously (Krumm et al. 2016). Morgan, Paucar-Caceres and
Wright (2014) defined the words as a group of geographically, timely and organizationally
dispersed workers, who works together through information technologies and
telecommunication for accomplishing the organizational tasks.