Question 1 (50 Marks) Globally distributed organizations bring people of different cultures and languages across heterogeneous locations together to collaborate on specific projects. Based on B325...

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Question 1 (50 Marks)


Globally distributed organizations bring people of different cultures and languages across heterogeneous locations together to collaborate on specific projects. Based on B325 course material, discuss the three conceptual structures of virtual teams’ organizational context. What is the most evident conceptual structure in the case? Support your answer with evidence from the case and explain from your experience which structure has been more materialized after covid-19 pandemic and the shift towards a more virtual working space.




Hint:


· To answer the query of this question, you need to refer to relevant course material and external resources.


· You need to define virtual teams and discuss the three conceptual structures of virtual teams.


· You need to focus your discussion on the importance of each structure and emphasis your discussion on the case and real life scenario. From the case, you need to identify which structure has been more evident and support your discussion with example(s). From your life experience, you need to identify to which extent your work/or life experiences has moved to a virtual word and what structure(s) has/have been more materialized, how and why. Answer needs to be as well supported with example based on your personal experience. Personal experience can be related not only to your work experience but can be extended as well to your experience as students.


· Your discussion needs to be supported with relevant references from B325 course material, case article and addition external resources you have referred to.









Question 2 (50 Marks)


How information technology can help boosting communication among virtual teams. Critically discuss how problems that emerge might be tackled. Reflect on the case and discuss how information technology in general is beneficial and how it has helped Volvo in particular to improve communication between its virtual teams. Discuss your experience with information technology in the era of covid-19. Did it have negative or positive effects in improving communication being it at work level or educational level?





Hint:


· To answer the query of this question, you need to refer to relevant course material and external resources.


· You need to discuss the importance of technology mediation and how it helps virtual teams, the problems faced with technology mediation and the role of translucence in this regard.


· You need to refer to the case and identify the role of technology medication, problems faced if any and how it was dealt with.


· You need to refer as well to a discussion of your personal experience with technology mediation and how it helped you or not to face problems of communication at the level of work and studies and what was the role of translucence in this regard.


· Your discussion needs to be supported with relevant references from B325 course material, case article and addition external resources you have referred to.

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Anurag answered on Jun 04 2021
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Virtual teams are groupings of geographically and/or organizationally dispersed members that work together to achieve a common objective by using information and communication technology (ICT). Virtual teams are teams comprised of people who never meet physically or scenarios in which team members seldom meet face-to-face and hence rely on ICT as the major medium of connection (Alsharo, Gregg & Ramirez, 2017). The continual difficulty of managing the cooperation must be placed at the very core of virtual teaming. The administration of virtual partnership is therefore viewed as articulation that includes all tasks involved in assembling, scheduling, monitoring and coordination amongst geographically scattered participants of independent yet interdependent activities.
The three conceptual structures of virtual teams are the following:
1. The lifeworld: It is an inter-subjective reality based on the interpretations of all individual work experiences as well as the collective experiences of an organization's members. People's attitudes, behaviours, and actions in interactions are guided by their lived experiences and beliefs. It is made up of assumptions, knowledge, culture, ideas, and values that are taken for granted. The lifeworld is a frame of reference that gives people implicit principles for organising, structuring, and enacting meaning in events and circumstances. It acts as a curtain through which individuals perceive and interpret the behaviours of others, filtering the collective reality. Only when there are failures in comprehension or when seemingly conflicting organisational acts are thoroughly examined can fractures in lifeworld plans appear.
2. The organizational structure: Policies, standards, symbolic objects, ritual activities, and structured behaviour are examples of explicit, articulated, and visible systems. Individuals' power and standing within the organisation are defined by them. Travel and email policies are two examples of organisational structures connected to virtual teams. The formation of a virtual team made up of members from various sub-groups inside the larger company can be seen as the emergence of a new organisational setting in which a common meaning framework, new organisational structures, and work practises must be negotiated and implemented (Soderstrom & Weber, 2020).
3. The work practice: Professional conventions, collaborative processes, and languages...
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