Report: Benefits, Limitations, and Decision-Making in Online Teams

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of online teams, covering their advantages and disadvantages, and strategies to enhance their performance. It explores the importance of leadership, continuous learning, and rewards in boosting team productivity. The report also details the decision-making processes within online teams, emphasizing the creation of a constructive environment, thorough investigation of situations, exploration of alternatives, and effective communication. Furthermore, it highlights the significance of cultural sensitivity and systematic processes in online team decision-making. The report concludes by emphasizing the effectiveness of team working in achieving organizational goals and the role of innovation in business expansion.

Team Reflections

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK ..............................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCE ..................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Online team consists of a individual persons from having a different background culture,
knowledge and varying skill levels. Communication both writing and verbally in an appropriate
manner of a business in a online team. People on a same ideas and the way was thinking always
find debate on something or argue about. Person mainly prefer to work alone whether working
with a online team due to feel of productivity lost, because of the online team turn into sort
parties of social affairs (Baiden and Price, 2011). Risk while working in a online team people
feel like being competitive rather than being a cooperative. The undermentioned report is based
on benefits and limitations of working in an online team, different ways by which team
performances can be improved, process used buy teams in order to carry out decision making
process.
TASK
ADVANTAGES OF ONLINE TEAM Common direction : Handling a project or certain tasks given by managers within a
online team people will always follow their direction in a common way as they will
communicate while working with a online team. Persons having different beliefs and
ideas get exchange in a team. Increased efficiency: People while searching a new ideas, their thinking and working
helps them to go faster. Working with a team they divides the work of team itself in
different modules (Ghaye and Lillyman, 2014).
 Weak areas of accountability : Working with a online team allow them to compensation
to a areas of weaker section. Having a workload can divide the work into individual of
various strength.
DISADVANTAGES OF ONLINE TEAM Loss of resources : Sometimes online team spend its more time in organising and
planning without getting engage with others work. Brainstorming , each and one has a
change to speak and gives suggestions (Schippers, Homan and Knippenberg, 2013). Team members conflicts : Having a different personality clash, it combine with
communication ineffective this is a way conflicts take place in a online team.
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 Case of a free-rider : In the groups almost having one person did every thing and credit
taken by the whole group. No one like this. Due to that it give rise to the conflicts and
argument (Donker and et. al., 2012).
How an online team improve their performance
Performance can be refereed as task which is related to knowledge, skills and abilities.
There are many ways through which an individual can enhance his performance:
Leadership Matters: Leadership trait is important to build someone's performance. They
guide their team in a right direction (Tannenbaum and Cerasoli, 2013). Leader with strong goals
help their squad to achieve their objectives. They should give clear vision about what they want
to achieve. They are the one who plan in a strategic manner.
Keep learning: Habit of learning new things will increase the productivity of an
organisation. It increases their knowledge which broader their perspective. For this company has
to make sure that all their employee expect skill development.
Rewards: Reward is what every worker is waiting for. Appraisal help them to get
motivated and use their energy in a right direction. Praise from their leaders can make their team
member feel appreciated and the whole team will work towards same goal (Oner and Adadan,
2011).
Better project team: This aid them in completing their task in a better way. It is an
essential part of any company a Best team will perform their work and high performance will be
there.
Innovative Ideas: New ideas will enhance organisation and will attract many more
employees. Person with creative knowledge will help the entire team to grow with innovative
thinking.
Evaluation of personal self is very important to do any task so as to know what is right
and what all we can do to improve our mistakes (Reynolds, 2017). It is closely related to self
monitoring. It helps in increasing knowledge and responsibility. It improves ones work and
standard of performance.
PROCESS OF ONLINE TEAM USE IN ORDER TO MAKE THEIR DECISIONS MAKING
Working collectively with other teams demonstrating their cultural sensitivity. Working
in a online team is they have to follow the systematic process of online team decision making for
that they discuss the following points of a online team decision making process :
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Create an environment constructive: Decisions are becoming very complex when the
online team involve and affect the people of other team members, So they have to make a
environment very constructive so that they can explore their weight up opinion and a situation.
Investigate a situation in detail: While taking any decision they should fully see the
situation arises in detail. They should make sure that they should understand their situation
properly (Pacharapha and Vathanophas Ractham, 2012).
Good alternatives can arise : More they are having the options it will help them taking a
better decisions and make them ask with a online team collaboratively
Explore your options : Satisfied with a selection of their decision from all the alternatives
then they should evaluate feasibility, implications and risks of every team members collectively.
Select the best solution : Alternatives has been evaluated then there is a next step of team
decision is to make a best decision among all alternative is a best they select for doing a online
team collaboratively with a cultural sensitivity.
Evaluate group plans: With a team hard work they had invested in evaluating and the
selection from all the alternatives. Make a whole plan into evaluating they can tempting to forge
ahead in a stage.
Communicate their decisions and take a action accordingly : While with a decision they
have to communicate with the everyone in their group affect them in involving and inspiring
them all into the work they have to work with (Porter, 2013).
CONCLUSION
From the above report it has been concluded that team working is effective in order to
achieve all set goals and objectives of firms in effective and planned manner . Team
performances can been chanced if there are measures taken like rewarding employees for the
hard work that is done by them in order to achieve set business goals and targets. Innovative
ideas are useful for business in order to expand overall business operation's and achieve strong
positions in the economy.
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