COMUNICATION AND VIRTUAL TEAM

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In all human life, communication is necessary to make others understand what I’m thinking or what I want to do. And humans have been responsible to create too many forms to communicate without talking; it is called non-verbal communication like, gesticulation, your face and body movements, and this kind of communication (non-verbal) its maybe the most important because you can transmit your feelings.

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Communication processes are the most important factor inside organizations, because depends on how good or how bad the communication is, the work environment become to be a opportunity or a threat. It is important to take into account the role of the communicator (the one who send the message) and the receiver role the one who understand and pay attention to the communicator), if there is a good transmission of the ideas and a good listener of those ideas, there is going to be a good communication. Although there are other barriers that make not improve the communication, those barriers are: Physical separation, Status differences, Gender differences, Cultural diversity, Language.

We have already talk about non verbal communication and the importance of those forms of communication in human life, in the following video and expert of bogy communication is going to explain the body communication and the importance of it in work life, what you must to do and what you havent to do. 

VIRTUAL TEAM

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In nowadays globalized world begin the necessity to construct virtual teams, those teams are a group of people working together by having some distance, distance which make the work and the development of their goals, a difficult thing.

With the technology that we have already count on, this virtual teams are more common and sometimes they are more competitive than normal teams. They work with too many sources such as internet conferences, phone calls and emails, so they have to be constantly communicated because they can’t see each other every day as a normal team does.

On the other hand, virtual teams used to have more than one barrier of communication, because most of the times these kind of teams contains people from different countries, so cultural factors become a huge barrier to make a business or just to have an agreement, that why the participant of those teams have to take into account cultural factors to make a good business environment.

QUESTION:

Accroding to Kuruppuarachchi (2009), what benefits and problems arise as a consequence of the creation of virtual team? Identify five each. Based on this, explain how to make the transition from a more traditional team structure to the more distributed team structure?

According to Kuruppuarachchi there are some positive and some bad consequences about virtual teams. About positive ones he highlight some bullet points, first he said virtual tams save time because they don’t need time to move to another places to interact with others participant of the teams, the might use all resources, and these kind of teams have the opportunity for developing team work skills, easy sell project and good internal relationships.

But he also talked about some negative issues about virtual team, those are: difficult quality control, members cant interact each other because of the virtual issue, its not be a permanent team, and maybe some members may not be psychologically fit for virtual teams, and finally huge cultural differences might be a big obstacle.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Kuruppuarachchi, P. R. (2009). Virtual team concepts in projects: A case studyBlackwell Publishing Ltd. Retrieved fromhttp://search.proquest.com/docview/218750033?accountid=45662

Powell, A ., G. Piccoliand B. Ives (2004) Virtual teams : a review of current literature and directions for future research. The Data base for Advances in Information Systems , 35: 6-36.

 Communication and Trust in Global Virtual Teams. Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa, Dorothy E. Leidner. Organization Science. Vol. 10, No. 6, Special Issue: Communication Processes for Virtual Organizations (Nov. - Dec., 1999), pp. 791-815

Network Structure in Virtual Organizations. Manju K. Ahuja, Kathleen M. Carley. Organization Science Vol. 10, No. 6, Special Issue: Communication Processes for Virtual Organizations (Nov. - Dec., 1999), pp. 741-757