The Shipping Industry Case Study

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1. What type of team was formed here? Was it necessary? * Virtual team * Virtual teams are teams whose members operate across space, time, and organizational boundaries and are linked together through information technologies to achieve organizational tasks. This mean that the members of the virtual teams usually do not work in the same physical area, but only primarily depend on information technologies to communicate and coordinate their works. * I think it was necessary because all the firms were trying to avoid centralizing the business around one office in Toronto. Also employees are from the different cities of the country; they need the communication technologies to combine them into one team. 2. Use the team effectiveness model and related information in this chapter to identify the strengths and weaknesses of this team’s environment, design and processes. a. Strengths * Environment: no strengths * Design: small groups, Virtual team * Processes: no strengths b. WEAKNESSES * Environment: there is no reward for team. * Design: The members of this team are in similar positions in the company which may hard to elect a leader. * Processes: Virtual team may have little team cohesion. In addition, Virtual team may also cause difficulty on informal communication because they never meet face to face, so there is little interaction between the team members. 3. Assuming that these four people must continue to work as a team, recommend ways to improve the team’s effectiveness. * They should have certain virtual face-to face meeting times during each week. * They need to have a team leader who will coordinate the team. They should get the chance to meet in person so that they can have a chance to establish their norms, and work out their disagreements properly. * They should establish a

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