Assignment Task Background: Patricia Heart has recently been promoted to lead a project with team members who are geographically dispersed. Patricia works from the London office in the UK. One team...

Assignment Task Background: Patricia Heart has recently been promoted to lead a project with team members who are geographically dispersed. Patricia works from the London office in the UK. One team member is in Japan; another is in New York; and the rest live in Africa, but in different time zones. Two staff members are in the eastern Africa time zone (UTC +3) and two staff members are in South Africa standard time zone (UTC + 2). Patricia has never managed a global virtual team and is unsure what special skills it will take to be successful. You have been commissioned to provide advice to the company about how to ensure Patricia and any other future global virtual team leader can be successful. Task (100%): Prepare a report that provides a critique of the factors that impact upon global virtual team effectiveness and the competencies that are necessary and important for virtual team leaders. In preparing your report, you should consider the nature of global virtual teams, the perspective of a range of scholars regarding their nature, use and the factors that help and hinder their effectiveness. You must include scholarly perspectives on the role of a leader of global teams and any similarities or differences with this role and leadership of ‘traditional’ teams.