Re-working work for virual teams,2010 retreived on may 6 from: http://www.workingpoint.com/blog/re-working-work-for-virtual-teams/4088
Virtual teams or also known as geographically dispersed teams according to Gould are teams of people that interact through internet and that almost never have face to face meetings. Companies use virtual teams so that they are more flexible and the workers are more efficient since there’s less commuting and travel time. Virtual teams can be divided into 7 types of virtual teams two of them being networked teams and parallel teams. The first is when individuals collaborate to achieve a common goal on the other hand parallel team’s work on a short period of time to develop an improvement in a process or system. For virtual teams to be successful it’s important that the objectives and goals and written so everybody is on the same page. It is necessary to mention some myths that are very popular and not true:
· Myth: virtual teams are not effective because everybody its not located in the same place.
· Reality: virtual teams can exceed the performance of other teams where everybody it’s located in the same place.
· Myth: co-located teams are preferable
· Reality: face to face it’s not the best approach when there are cultural differences electronic communication works better.
· Myth: things go wrong because of technology.
· Reality: things are more probable to go wrong because people lack skills and not technology.
I believe that virtual communication is an excellent tool for organizations to create a link with other employees from all around the world. I agree when you mention that things are more probably to go wrong because people lack skills and not because of the lack of technology.
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