Virtual Team Essay

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1. Why is this group a team? A team is commonly known as a group of people who come together to achieve a common goal. They are interdependent, committed to balanced participation, equal contribution, and regular deliberation. In this team, they communicate each other through the use of internet for understanding about who is doing what, when, where and how and why they need the support of other team members, etc. 2. What characteristics of the team predispose it to making ineffective decisions? 1- Not show output/achievement to the team regarding to the program change like in creating a shortcut to save the time for the work Tom and Cy did not inform to the team members and manager of work group about this new innovation. They did not tell or inform to the member what the process going on and made the decision together. This action made by Tom and Cy can be pictured as cheating to the team that can be reached to business failure in the future. 2- Tom and Cy did not report to the manager Dave Regan for this new innovation and made him wonder about their performances overall team. So, for Dave Regan think that it should be unusual inside the “Macro” program change. Until, Dave Regan found in email communication between Merge an Cy for thanking in saving her time. This is not a good practice for the team member like Cy because he should not keep information or new innovation only small group like Merge and Tom. There will be a big problem when the manager knew about this. For team may not support the ideas or participation from Cy and Tom, and they also affect from this new innovation like if the macro is learn from the management, there may be keep only three programmers and one of theme lose their job. 3- Dave Regan, the manager found out that Cy boasted about his trick to a member of another virtual work group. Cy only told to Dave that the group’s

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