ubmission Method The essay must be submitted electronically via the virtual learning
system or by email.
You must submit your work accompanied by an Assessed Submission
Form, which must be completed in full. The assignment will not be
accepted by the Registry unless the form is completed correctly.
Length The submitted essay should have 2,500 words with +/- 5%
Part II: Assessment Details
Assessment Topic You are tasked with building a new team for a global Digital Strategic
Business Initiative for your organization. Your team will be located in
different geographic regions and members will be from different
functional domain (e.g., IT, customer support, marketing, sales).
Because the firm gives you the opportunity to build your team i.e., you
can select the people you want on your team.
Your boss asks you to write down for her how you plan to set-up and
manage the team. You prepare a written report for her (which is this
written essay).
Assessment
Guidelines
Your boss wants you to cover the following aspects:
• How are you going to select the people for your virtual team?
What kind of tools (if any) will you use?
• What are some of the challenges to be expected from managing
a virtual team? How are you going to handle the challenges?
• How will you manage the productivity of the team? How do you
plan to schedule meetings and communication within the team?
• What are your own leadership principles and how will you get
them to work out in your role of manager of that virtual team?
Your organization practices good H/R management methods and you
have access to a variety of psychometric and competency testing tools.
There are no budget constraints for you.
Purpose Successfully managing virtual teams requires managers to understand
what some of the challenges might be and having a good command of
tools for managing people who they may only see or hear through
digital media. Also, success depends on team composition and
planification of communication, rules of conduct, and clear
boundaries. These elements of successful virtual teams can and should
be planned before works of the virtual team commences.
Links to module
intended learning
outcomes
The assignment relates to the following intended learning outcomes
for the module:
• Understand different team roles in volatile and
complex virtual contexts
• Reflect on practical experience in virtual teams.
• Assess their own strengths and weaknesses in a team
context as well as their individual development needs
• Explain and synthesize the principles of collaboration in
virtual teams themselves
• Construct the factors leading to the emergence of a
leader in a virtual team in different stages of virtual team