Intel Inside: Part 2

A paper submitted to Webber International University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the
Bachelor of Science degree in Sports Business Management

By: Hugo Cedeno

Date: November 13, 2013

Course: Management

Semester: Fall, 2013

Instructor: Dr. Fred Fening
Introduction
Intel is an American multinational semiconductor chip maker corporation founded in 1968 by Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore. Intel has also invented many others technological products such as motherboard chipsets, network interface controllers and integrated circuits, flash memories, graphic chips, embedded processors and other devices related to communications and computing. Intel also started the beginning of a new era with the came out of the highly successful Centrino chips for laptops. Directly, Intel set out to become the leading chip supplier.
Many types of challenges have Intel’s managers faced in connecting their geographically dispersed teams. These teams that we are mentioning are Cyber teams that refers to a group of people that manage a big part of their work using social media communication more than a face-to-face communication within their group of employees. Virtual teams that refer to a group of members who work across time, space and organizational boundaries with links supported by webs of communication technology. And Geographically dispersed teams that refer to a group of workers that must work together to make a plan, a product, or a new outcome.
Nowadays corporations have changed the different ways of working in groups. They have kept distant sites of their workers for many years, but now with the time workers working at different locations are being asked to work by themselves to share the different types of information that they have for a new plan to the rest of the workers. A big contradiction came out after this type of work in groups, because now the competition of the work place ask to the corporations to work more in groups to create better outcomes to this world. But at the same time other different market conditions of workforce are making the face-to-face communication impossible, so corporations can realize that the best way to response this contradiction is to work within virtual and geographically dispersed teams to make this strategy work.
It is always appropriate a “confrontational” atmosphere in all team situations; it is even considered a very important skill that leaders have to acquire. A leader has to deal with their employees in a good confrontation to know immediately the goods and issues that influence the company results. It is well known that the honesty plays a very important role of a good leadership in a corporation.
When workers keep a respectful and honest confrontation, they can assume and find the situations and problems that the organization can have. A lot of times people think that a reaction of the confrontation will be bad because they do not know an answer, so they are afraid of what will be the answer. Confrontation does not have to involve conflict; on the contrary, it does have to be mostly clear to get an agreement and to be able to solve the problems that they can have within the group.
Work in groups generates a big set of characteristics that a corporation has to make possible all the goals of a company. Teamwork refers to work hard within teammates to get the a goal that is the same goal of the company, the only way you can see an efficient work is by obtaining the results provided to every single team of a company. Of course to make an efficient team, you will have to identify the characteristics of effective teamwork.
The first characteristic that a team has to have is a unified commitment to a goal. In order to complete the established goals, team members have to feel unity toward their purpose. Collaborative climate is another characteristic of teamwork. It is important to keep an environment that is both positive and supportive. By maintaining a good climate within workmates, it is possible to avoid a scenario where group members are hostile and defensive toward another. And of course competence is the final characteristic of effective teamwork. Having competent team members is an integral part of overall effectiveness. Unfortunately, we often have no control over whom we work with; both in the classroom setting and in the work environment. Do not become distressed; instead remember that there is some way in which every team member can contribute.
Definitely Intel is a perfect example of technological and positional corporation. They have shown us how to make growth and prosper a company with their results. The power of a company that has survived within many other companies that go to the same direction. Their positioning has made them solve and recognize the needs of their customers. Intel inside campaign is famous because of that, because of the success that they have gotten around the world.