International Management: Leadership and Training for Global Teams

This report delves into the realm of international management, examining the operational strategies of multinational companies, using Apple as a case study. It highlights the pivotal role of effective leadership in navigating the challenges posed by global virtual teams, including communication barriers, cultural differences, and the importance of fostering team spirit. The report explores various leadership approaches, such as transactional, situational, and transformational leadership, and their application in motivating and guiding virtual teams. It emphasizes the significance of tailored training programs, encompassing technological, cross-cultural, and group processing elements, to enhance team performance and overcome potential obstacles. The conclusion underscores the critical need for adopting appropriate leadership methodologies and providing comprehensive training to enable companies to successfully conduct business operations across the globe.

INTERNATIONAL
MANAGEMENT

 International Management of business is defined as the process of managing the affairs
of the business internationally.
 For this, it requires huge level of knowledge and skills and business expertise and
should be familiar with the rules and regulations for carrying its business across the
different countries.
 A company should be familiar about country's local customs, laws, culture etc in order
to carry out their business across different countries. In this report Apple is taken as
organisation, Apple is a multinational company operating its business across the world.
INTRODUCTION

 As companies keeps on expanding there will be rise of
cross cultural and multinational teams so the culture plays
an important role in managing international business.
 A effective communication is very important for the
success of any international business.
 This kind of culture is very important when there is high
risk of getting loss of translation of the messages.
 But effective communication culture will fill this gap by
making the use of non verbal communication which
might prove crucial for multinational businesses.
Challenges faced by leadership, leadership required to face
these challenges and training required by the employees

 Global virtual teams is a type of a team which helps a company
in engaging its team members and also helps in the delivering
the projects of the company with making no or limited
interaction with other members of the team physically.
 This helps a multinational company to make use of the capable
and most efficient talent available in their global base of
employees.
 In global virtual teams, different teams and members may not
meet each other face to face but carry out their operations of
the projects through a technology called VOIP (Voice Over
Internet Protocol) and also through other virtual meetings and
Sharepoints.
Global virtual teams

 Communication gap
 Lack of trust
 Time zone differences
 Lack of team spirit and
employee morale
 Routine
 Diverse cultural teams
Challenges

 Transactional approach:. A leader should establish a
regular communication with the virtual teams
 Situational Approach: This approach of leadership
will benefit the employees at any kind of situation in
hand.
 Transformational approach: With the help of this
approach a leader uses different procedure in order to
motivate, increase employees morale, build team spirit
and inspire them
Leadership required for Global Virtual
Teams

 Technological trainings: A well furnished training should
be provided on various formats like electronic media which
is used for sharing the information like video-conferencing,
social media, web conferencing and other electronic media.
 Cross cultural training:: As virtual environment tends to
bring people of different cultures and different level of
knowledge and also people of different regions together on
a particular project.
 Group Processing training: This type of training is the
best, as it provides the training on the various challenges
faced by the virtual-teams at different stages
Training required for the global virtual-
teams

 It is concluded from the report that a global virtual-team helps
in the expansion of the business of the company across the
globe but a company has to face different challenges while
setting a global virtual-team , like cultural challenges,
communication gap, lack of trust etc. but these challenges can
be overcome by adopting a proper leadership approaches which
helps in addressing these issues faced by virtual-teams.
 This report also discusses about the type of training to be
provided to virtual-team members in order increase their
performances without any restrictions faced by them so that a
company can carry out its business across the world effectively.
CONCLUSION

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