Assessment 2: Virtual Teams Advantages and Disadvantages Report

This report examines the increasing popularity of virtual teams in the 21st century, highlighting their significance for companies in leveraging expertise across geographical boundaries. The report focuses on the advantages of virtual teams, such as cost savings, access to global talent, and reduced real estate expenses. It also addresses the disadvantages, including potential technological issues, cultural differences, and communication barriers. The report uses the case of ABC Company to illustrate the benefits of virtual teams, such as collaboration with international staff and investment in R&D. It then suggests strategies for overcoming the challenges, including the use of language translators and instant messaging to maintain consistent communication. The report references key studies and concludes with recommendations for effective virtual team management, with a focus on communication and collaboration to ensure successful outcomes.

COMMUNICATION
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Name of the University:
Author’s Note:

Virtual Teams
 Virtual team is gaining a huge popularity in the 21st century.
This is very useful for the companies in gaining their expertise
from many different parts of the country just by sitting in one
corner of their cubicle. The virtual team communication is
mainly carried on via video conferencing, discussion forums
and others.

Virtual Team Usage
Advantages Disadvantages
 Virtual teams in collaborating with employees
that are located in many different parts of the
world in quicl and cost effective manner
(Pozin et al. 2018).
 ABC Company will be able to collaborate with
staffs from Sanghai, Los Angeles, Bangalore
just by sitting at their Melbourne office,
without bearing any travel expenditure.
 ABC company will be able to save real estate
cost and invest in their R&D department.
 Poor internet connection due to bad climate
can be a problem(Bartel-Radic & Münch
2016)
 Employees might misunderstand or miss out
some important facts shared at the meeting
 Employees might end up fighting due to
cultural difference

Virtual Team
Communication

Conclusion
 The managers of ABC company have to adopt some
strategies in order to solve the issues. They must recruit some
language translators who will help the International
employees to share their thoughts and feelings. ABC company
has to use the instant messages, hangouts in order to stay in
constant connection with their employees so that there is no
gaps in between.

REFERENCES
 Bartel-Radic, A. & Münch, F., 2016, June.
Multicultural Teams as Loosely Coupled
Systems: Insights from a case study. In 6e
Conférence Atlas AFMI.
 Pozin, M.A.A., Nawi, M.N.M., Lee, A. &
Azman, M.N.A., 2018. Improving
communication in managing industrialised
building system (IBS) projects: virtual
environment. Malaysian Construction
Research Journal, 2(2), pp.1-13.

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