...Virtual Meeting Scenario Paper COMM 315 Joy Chandler, RN April 27, 2015 Martin Carr, Professor In our ever changing world, companies have to adopt new strategies to remain current in their ways of communicating and connecting with partners and exchanging information among members of a team on a global level. Time and space are no longer barriers for the communication process with the advancements with technology nowadays. Since the dawn of communication enhancers such as the internet and cell phones, communication happens at lightning speed. According to the website Educase Learning Initiative, the definition of a virtual meeting is a meeting is that is held in real-time interactions that takes place over the Internet using methods other than face to face interaction such as, “audio and video, chat tools, and application sharing” (Educase Learning Initiative, 2006). Even with these advancements, those who engage in these methods of communicating still have the responsibility of remaining abreast of acceptable cultural norms, etiquette and being both culturally sensitive and respectful. In other words while the virtual meeting eliminates some communication barriers in the sense of space and time, this methods relies solely on the efforts of the speaker and the listener to communicate effectively. Not being face to face takes away from the largest part of communication which would be body language to aid with getting information across more effectively. This is why it is...
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...Today, working with a virtual team is very common. The author, Martha Haywood said that working on virtual teams can be the best of times or the worst of times. I agree with her that working with different people from around the world can be the best and the worst depending on how you handle every situation. Martha Haywood uses two scenarios as to what best and worst times are like in working with virtual teams. First scenario is about Wanda, a project manager for a successful global project at an e-commerce company. Their company wanted to expand their business and develop a software and system and sell them in Japan. They have planned well. They divided the work to be done efficiently. And they finished the project on time and under budget....
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...Virtual Office MODULE: LECTURER: STUDENT: What is Virtual Office? A Virtual Office is a workplace that is not based in one physical location but consists of employees working remotely by using information and communications technologies. Such organizations are virtual not only in the sense that they exist largely in cyberspace, but also in that they are unconstrained by the traditional barriers of time and place. A virtual office is characterized by the use of teleworkers, telecenters, mobile workers, hot-desking, and hoteling, and promotes the use of virtual teams. A virtual office can increase an organization's flexibility, cost effectiveness, and efficiency. Justification for a Virtual Office An organization’s most important asset has always been and will always be its employees. For obvious reasons, however, organizations continue to expect more from their employees each year. Companies simply cannot afford to add new resources whenever the workload increases. The result is that the demands on the average professional employee continue to increase, and indications are that this will be the case for the foreseeable future. In other words, the pressure on an employee to perform - and even outperform - has never been greater. To respond to these challenges, employees need access to business tools that allow them to do their jobs efficiently. Since much of their work depends on exchanging...
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...” exercise in the textbook provides an opportunity to see one’s conflict – handling style by asking one’s decision in the given scenario. This exercise helped me to understand how to handle the conflict. I’ve scored the highest in the Forcing style. This result means that imposing my wills on the other party is my primary conflict – handling style and trying to reach an agreement that would satisfy both parties would be my fallback intention. This exercise provided me an opportunity to know my personal conflict – handling style and with the research I’ve done, I now know the strengths and weaknesses in the conflict resolving style and may still be able to find a new style of handling conflict. As a manager in the future, to solve the conflict is a key to success, therefore, I will use my conflict resolution style to handle any other conflicts which exist in the organization. However, I need to get more skills to solve the conflicts and to make everyone satisfied with the final decision. As the scenarios in the exercise also provided examples of what kind of conflict – handling style one uses. In the future, I may use these examples as a reference to hypothesize if one is a potentially good leader. Journal 8 During this week I learnt about organizational structure and organizational change. The most important and useful lesson is virtual organization. It is a continually evolving network of...
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...9-306-002 REV: JUNE 19, 2006 DAVID A. GARVIN LYNNE C. LEVESQUE Strategic Planning at United Parcel Service We fully recognize that it is not possible to develop a true strategic plan more than a few years out and that business plans should have an even shorter horizon. But we are convinced that it is possible and wise, indeed necessary, to develop a set of very long-range scenarios that can form the foundation for our future strategic plans. — Michael (Mike) J. Eskew, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, United Parcel Service (UPS) As Mike Eskew walked through the long, open atrium of UPS’s corporate headquarters late in March 2005, he thought about his upcoming lunch meeting with Vice President of Corporate Strategy Vern Higberg. Higberg was preparing a presentation for the senior management strategy committee, the Strategy Advisory Group, on improvements to the strategic-planning process. While the company had made major progress in planning for the future over the past 10 years, Eskew had charged Higberg and his colleagues with developing recommendations for moving forward, citing one of his predecessors, who had said, “The future of our company will be no better or worse than the quality of planning we do to prepare for it.” Company Background History In 1907, 19-year-old Jim Casey borrowed $100 from friends to start the small company that eventually became UPS. From its humble origins delivering messages for the city of Seattle, Washington, UPS...
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...Team Dynamics Group of people working together for achieving the organizational goals are considered team but when people create group with no interdependence or organizationally focused objective are called formal group. These formal groups are available in almost every form of social organization, and same applies to my classroom on basis of race, religion and nationality. People of same race go along with each other very easily as they are familiar about themselves and similar situation goes for religion and nationality too. There are various reasons for having formal groups within a social organization among which the most basic reason is drive to bond, human being is a social animal and they are hardwired through evolutionary development. Individuals basically defined themselves by the group which they are affiliated to, in classroom students try to find people’s group whom they see having similar traits and identify themselves with that group. Also informal group allows individual to accomplish personal objectives that cannot be achieved working alone, any uncertainty in the class which could be because of exams results or any other thing require student to have some social support. This kind of social support is achievable through formal group within the classroom. There is another important fact i.e. individual cannot appose organization (in this case would be college) changes, group is required to accomplish personal objectives. Informal...
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... | HRM IN VIRTUAL ORGANISATIONS | | INDEX Sr. No | Contents | Page No. | 1 | Introduction | 2 | 2 | Need for Virtual Organisations | 3 | 3 | Distinction between Traditional & Virtual Organisations | 4 | 4 | Types of Virtual Organisations | 4 | 5 | Technology in Virtual Organisations | 5 | 6 | Advantages & Disadvantages of Virtual Organisations | 6 | 7 | Issues in Virtual Organisations | 7 | 8 | Best Practises Followed | 10 | 9 | Virtual Organisation at E-Clerx | 10 | 10 | Preparing for the Future | 12 | HRM IN VIRTUAL ORGANISATIONS INTRODUCTION: Virtual organization practically means a workplace or an organizational setup where the concerned authorities and staffs are connected via computers. The term actually stresses on the remote set-up and the virtual workers may work from the home, hotels, any other remote place, which may be in some sense their workplace or where their work takes them to. Virtual organization is a new form of organization that emerged in 1990. It is also known as network organization, modular organization or digital organization. Simply stated, a virtual organization is a network of corporations made possible by what is known as Information and Communication Technology (ICT) which is flexible and is created to meet the dynamics of the market. In other words, the virtual organization is a social network in which all the horizontal and vertical boundaries are removed. In this sense, virtual organization is...
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...working on reducing the company budget for next year. Dr. Stephanie White needs make at least $94,000 in budget cuts but she needs to do this without effecting the operation of the organization. Here are three scenarios for Dr. Stephanie White to consider when making her budget decisions for the organization. Scenario 1 In scenario one Dr. Stephanie White can reduce the budget by the minimum of $94,000. This is accomplished by the removal of one secretarial position, and two social worker positions; as well as reducing cost in other operating areas, such as cutting the custodial and security vendor contracts by only $1,000 each. Also by reducing the advertisement and promotion area to nearly half for next year, will allow Dr. Stephanie White to reduce her organizations cost by the $94,000 minimum. With scenario one Dr. Stephanie White is able to reduce the budget while maintain the organizations operations. Program Area Salaries: Current Cost Budget Plan Variance Administrator $60,000.00 $60,000.00 $0.00 Assistant $35,000.00 $35,000.00 $0.00 Secretary 1 $21,000.00 $0.00 $0.00 Secretary 2 $21,000.00 $0.00 $21,000.00 Supplies $35,000.00 $35,000.00 $0.00 Advertising and Promotion $9,000.00 $6,000.00 $3,000.00 Professional Meetings/ Dues $14,000.00 $9,000.00 $5,000.00 Purchased Services: Accounting and Billing $15,000.00 $15,000.00 $0.00 Custodial $13,000.00 $11,000.00 $2,000.00 Security $12,000.00 $10,000.00 $2,000...
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...(Your Name) 8/20/2014 NT1110 Virtual Grids “The internet, is a type one civilization telephone system” stated by the theoretical physicist Michio Kaku in his book, The Physics of the Future. The internet is a way of being connected like humanity has never seen before. News is blasted through the web like wildfire; people are informed in a matter of minutes across the global. The web has been taken to a whole new level of instant communication, in virtual worlds. Individuals can now interact without leaving their homes with an avatar of themselves or something completely different as they meet other users. An age of great advancements of communication has come before us in our life-time. Virtual. Worlds provide an experience of simulations of all kinds such as car driving, spaceship maneuvering, submarine navigation, and socializing experiences. In a world of great distances between nations with people of a wide range of diversity, makes it difficult to conversant with various cultures. Some countries do not allow certain news to be aired on public television programs making it challenging to know of the world events. Among certain restrictions, even websites, URL's, and postings cannot be accessed. "The Chinese government issued new rules on Friday requiring Internet users to provide their real names to service providers, while assigning Internet companies greater responsibility to deleting forbidden postings and reporting them to the authorities." ( 2...
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... Molex Incorporated Standardizes on Emulex SAN Connectivity for VMware Transition in America’s Regional Data Center With a commitment to innovation based on cutting-edge technology and customer collaboration, Molex Incorporated is recognized as a leading provider of interconnect products, a highly competitive segment of the electronics industry. Keeping close to customers in this fastmoving business is critical, and this means that Molex has 39 offices, product development sites and manufacturing operations in the Americas region. Its regional business applications are supported from a data center in Lisle, Illinois, where a multi-year server virtualization project is addressing the challenges of fulfilling service requirements, while meeting corporate goals for environmental responsibility. The Molex Americas infrastructure team in Lisle maintains an application server farm and is responsible for specifying and maintaining network equipment and computing systems at 39 separate locations within North and South America. The data center installed a storage area network (SAN) in 2003, and today has several Terabytes of both live and archived data residing on EMC arrays. Emulex host bus adapters (HBAs) were selected as the SAN connectivity solution based on ease of administration, performance and reliability. Virtualization Planning When Molex began planning a server consolidation and virtualization project, evaluation of SAN connectivity requirements was part of the infrastructure...
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...An Instructional Manual for Virtual Teams Table of Contents So, You Want a Virtual Team, Huh? 3 Introduction 3 The Look of a Successful Virtual Team 4 The Leader's Relief 6 Establishing Team Purpose 7 The Virtual Team Start-up Meeting 8 Local vs. Virtual 9 Operating Principles 10 The Culture Thing 11 “The Safety Net" – Coping With Virtuality 12 Become An Effective Leader 12 Staying On Top Of Things 12 The Technical Needs of a Virtual Team 13 Learning and Technology 13 Selecting Technology 13 Examples of Real-Time Tools (Synchronous) 14 Examples of Asynchronous Tools 14 The Virtual Meeting 15 Planning Your Meeting 15 The Virtual Meeting, cont. 16 Facilitation Tips 16 Types of Virtual Meeting Software to Consider 16 Managing Issues In A Virtual Team 17 Conclusions and Closure for a Virtual Team 18 References 19 So, You Want a Virtual Team, Huh? An Instructional Manual for Virtual Teams Introduction John is so excited! He starts his new job on Monday. In his new job, John will take on a team for a Fortune 100 company. His new company is growing fast, and to keep up with the pressure of rapid growth, they have been expanding across the country. John is new to this matrix-type work culture and needs to adjust his style of work and leadership to accommodate. How will he setup technology and infrastructures to support his new team? What techniques can he use to build trust, agreement and purpose with his...
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...This means interacting with the same objects that reside at the exact locations and perform the exact actions in the proper sequence and within a particular duration. If the particular duration of time within which the actions have to performed exceeds, the user has to retry. If this process repeats for more than three times, then the account gets locked. VI. 3D PASSWORD SELECTION AND INPUT Let us consider a 3D virtual environment space of size G ×G × G. The 3D environment space is represented by the coordinates (x, y, z) ∈ [1. . . G] × [1, . . . , G] × [1, . . . , G]. The objects are distributed in the 3D virtual environment with unique (x, y, z) coordinates. We assume that the user can navigate into the 3D virtual environment and interact with the objects using any input device such as a mouse, keyboard, fingerprint scanner, iris scanner, stylus, touch screen, card reader, or microphone For example, consider a user who navigates through the 3D virtual environment that consists of an office and a...
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...successfully enhance the organization in accordance with the type of work and employees to perform that work. As a superintendent for Riordan Manufacturing, Inc., I will work to determine the most beneficial type of team to maximize production of the newly designed custom heart valves at the Pontiac, MI location. There are various strategies in the formation of teams for business purposes. One such strategy is known as the problem-solving team. Teams constructed and labeled as problem-solving are usually informal in nature and do not accomplish much in the grand scheme of things organizationally. They are usually comprised of no more than 12 employees, most likely at the same pay level and from the same department within the company. The meetings between members of problem-solving teams are very open and ideas are shared, but it is not often that ideas are taken from these teams and actually implemented into the company. Authority and decision-making ability are a great lacking factor in the formation of problem solving teams. Another type of team in the world of business is the self-managing team. In business, self-managing teams take things one step further...
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...Case-1 Question#1 What performance problems is the captain trying to correct? Answer – In the given scenario the problem projected by the police captain is that the young officers who come to the police force are not at all good at doing paper work, they find it boring and hate it. They are much interested to stay out on the streets, either in cars or on a beat instead of doing paper work while sitting in the office. They frequently put off the job or do it inadequately which results in unclear and ambiguous reports which cause the police department to lose court cases. Another problem is that the captain is finding it difficult to figure out the possible ways to motivate them to do the paper work effectively and efficiently. There are various problems related to the employee motivation, ability of officers to perform task, lack of role perception and different situational factors. Question # 2 Use the mars model of individual behaviour and performance to diagnose the possible causes of the unacceptable behaviour? Answer- According to the MARS model of individual behaviour there are four factors that directly influence voluntary individual behaviour and performance. Those factors are Motivation, Ability, Role perceptions and Situational factors. We can use the mars model to diagnose the causes responsible for different problems in the given scenario. The causes are as follows - 1. Lack of motivation – Motivation is the force within the person that affects his or her...
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...Please print the syllabus for your reference. Course Description In this course, students examine elements of successful teams and small decision-making groups. Emphasis is on communication, critical thinking and group process techniques. Quarter Credits 4 Instructional Contact Hours 40 Instructional Methods Prerequisite Courses Co-requisite Courses 40 hours theory 0 hour lab GE117 Composition I or equivalent None Objectives 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Explain the importance of group dynamics. Critique the performance of groups/teams in a variety of scenarios. Evaluate the use of problem-solving and decision-making techniques for virtual groups/teams. Apply theories of small group communication during small group activities. Apply ethical standards while participating in groups/teams. Apply critical-thinking and analysis skills to overcome obstacles and improvise solutions as a leader within small groups. 7. Use the ITT Tech Virtual Library for research and information necessary to complete assignments and projects. SCANS Objectives SCANS is an acronym for Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills. The committee, created by the National Secretary of Labor in the early 1990's, created a list of skills and competencies that the committee feels are necessary for employees to function in a high technology job market. 1. Select relevant, goal-related activities, rank them in order of importance, allocate time to activities, and understand, prepare, and follow schedules...
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