...How virtual reality work Virtual reality is a 3-dimensional, computer-generated graphic representation of objects or scenes with the aim of giving the viewer an illusionary sense that such objects or scenes exist in reality. Virtual reality has been designed to address one or more of our senses--visual (sight), auditory (hearing), tactile (feel) and olfactory (smell). As of now, computer and electronic scientists and engineers are working on a system that will include the sense of taste. For virtual reality to work, there are three imperatives--a computer, special software and the individual user. There are various input devices to greatly enhance the virtual reality experience and make it work--items such as helmets, glasses, joysticks, mice and wands. These input devices are designed to record and measure electronic signals and convert them into a physical world. In this video, the author-Oliver Kreylos wanted to explain the ways on how our sight respond can generate the change in virtual reality image. This video is divided into four parts, namely: 3D vision, Stereoscopic display, Head tracking and HMD vs CAVE and the author will explain individually how different technique work together with picture. Part I- 3D Vision Humans have two eyes located side-by-side in the front of their head, each eye captures its own view and the two separate images are sent on to the brain for processing. When the two images arrive simultaneously in the back of the brain, they...
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...Definition: Our textbook defines virtual work as, “employees use information technology to perform their jobs away from the traditional physical workplace. The most common form of virtual work, called telecommuting or teleworking, involves working at home rather than commuting to the office” (McShane & Von Glinow, 2010, p. 22). Summary: In his article, “Unilever Moves Employee Telecommuting to a New Level,” Gary M. Stern writes about how most employers today offer telecommuting and some go beyond that. Unilever is a consumer goods company that in 2010 launched a program titled “Agile Working” that allows its employees to telecommute anytime anywhere. With a 30% participation rate, employees are encouraged to work as long as they are making results. Stern alludes to various advantages of telecommuting such as avoiding commuting, flexible scheduling, and changing work environments. Advantages for the company include cutting global travel costs, office overhead, and achieving a higher level of talent in its employees. “Agile Working” is a flexible virtual work program that offers its employees flexibility, mobility, and challenges them in return (Stern 2012). Discussion: Virtual work is helping employees essentially blur the line between work and home. By letting employees use information technology and do their jobs away from the workplace they can be connected at home, on the road, or in a coffee shop. Research shows advantages of telecommuting include potentially...
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...What is actually virtual meeting on business? Recent years, advanced technology brought a lot of new opportunities in our life and on our businesses meanwhile these technological improvements get inside our life day by day. Virtual meeting is one of these opportunities which many businesses are using it and many of them will use in the future. Virtual meeting is having a meeting by using internet connection virtually with the other branches or other related companies that you work with. “Virtual meetings will never eradicate the need for traditional face-to-face meetings, but they often provide the least expensive means of bringing people together” (2011, Mittleman). As long as companies remain, people who work within these companies will travel to other countries or cities to have meetings but virtual meeting which is videoconferencing and telepresence will decrease these travels. What are the advantages of the virtual meetings on an organization? Maybe 15 years ago, if we talked about a virtual meeting, it would be so weird but now this is very common way to have a meeting and will be more than now. There are a lot of advantages of the virtual meetings first and important one for a business is saving time. The other important advantage is saving money. These two important things are actually main factors to consider for many businesses anytime. These virtual meetings will reduce your employees to travel for a meeting sometimes these meetings can last 1 week or...
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...dilemma as your family does not want to be relocated. The project has a six-month deadline. What factors should you consider in order to make this virtual assignment effective? Answer: First of all, virtual assignments is where the employees and managers are located in different areas as in this case, the Project Manager’s office is in London whereas the other six team members are in Munich. Thus, the Project Manager has to rely heavily on communication technologies such as telephone, email or video conference. In my opinion, the factors that has to be taken into consideration include effective use of technology, invest time in building relationships and trust, provide specific intercultural training and arrange face-to-face meeting occasionally. To bring a success to virtual assignments, I will need to be aware of the full range of technology tools available to us and become practices and proficient in their use. Without familiarizing the technology, it is difficult for managers to keep in touch with the team and it might end up slowing down the team performance. For instance, it will be a waste of time discovering the function of Skype tools during the virtual meeting. Besides that, as a newly-appointed Project Manager, trust and a comfortable level of social or personal interaction are enormously important for effective virtual assignments. It is crucial for me to find ways to engage with my members and create an appropriate and effective dynamic within the team. Initially...
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...IS535 – COURSE PROJECT PROPOSAL THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CHOSEN: VIRTUAL MEETINGS TO BE IMPLEMENTED ON: INTER ASIA MINERALS AND ENERGY (INDIA) PVT.LTD. AND ITS SISTER CONCERN STARLET EXIM LLC. DONE BY: ORPHA DAVIS AND DHIVYAA DHANASEKAR BUSINESS PROBLEM STATEMENT: Inter Asia Minerals and energy Pvt. Ltd. was formed as a trading company for heavy construction equipment, iron ore, metal scrap and other minerals. This company was formed in India and it had major suppliers from the United States of America. To make the buying of material and transport more efficient, Inter Asia decided to set up a new business in USA as Starlet Exim LLC. The parent company in India has 10 employees working in India and the sister company in USA has 3 employees working here. The employees who work in India are located in various states among who, 1 person is in-charge of marketing and 1 is in-charge of shipping documentation, 1 is in-charge of the inland transportation, 1 is in-charge of the accounting for the company and so on. Due to the distribution of workers all over the country, the trading was not done properly and the work is not being followed up or updated on time. Sometimes, the shipment gets delayed due to documentation or sometimes the accountant delays the payment without any knowledge of the dates of purchase. There are no modern technologies used by the company which may help these improper work and disorder. Moreover, having a sister concern in USA now, has increased the tensions...
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...Virtual Team at Nanavati associates. Nanawati Associates (NA) is a national tax accounting firm whose main business is tax preparation services for individuals. NA's superior reputation is based on the high quality of its advice and the excellence of its service. Key to the achievement of its reputation is the state-of-the-art computer databases and analysis tools that its people use when counseling clients. These programs were developed by highly trained individuals. The programs that these individuals produce are highly technical, both in terms of the tax laws they cover and the code in which they are written. Perfecting them requires high levels of programming skill as well as the ability to understand the law. New laws and interpretations of existing laws have to be integrated quickly and flawlessly into the existing regulations and analysis tools. The creation of these programs is carried out in a virtual environment by four programmers in the Greater Mumbai area. The four work at home and are connected to each other and to the company bye-mail, telephone, and conference software. Formal, on-site meetings among all of the programmers take place only a few times a year, although the workers sometimes meet informally outside of these scheduled occasions. Here's some background on the four: Ravi Tendulkar is a tax lawyer, a graduate of the UQiversity of Mumbai and a former hockey player there. At 35, Ravi has worked on the programs for six years and is the longest-standing...
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...I was on the bottom of the pyramid, I was the foundation of the format. I did cheerleading through middle school, then in high school was in color guard in the band. I have to say being in band takes a lot of teamwork and discipline. From there being a server at a few places where teamwork is a must! Then at Food Lion I was Assistant Produce Manger, on truck days working together to get it unloaded and organized in the cooler takes teamwork and communication. Sometimes we would get dairy or meat products on our floats and because we are a team, would carry the product to the department and they would be thankful. Now at the gas station, all associates work really well together to make sure everything gets done and the store looks clean. Now as a mom, I would say this is the newest team. Rob, myself and the grandparents all work together to ensure that Jackson is taken care of. 2] How is communication in a team different from one-on-one communication, according to the text? The more people in the group the greater chance for miscommunication. One on one communication allows for more input because it can be more specific to each individual responses. They can have a better understanding of each other because it’s more direct. With group communication everyone needs to have a better understanding of the group’s obkectives and main goal. Also because it’s a group there is more input from different people making the process more difficult. “For example, a group of five members...
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...team type pop out in my mind, which is cross-cultural teams, virtual teams, and X-teams. Before working with our team rainbow, my previous experience could not support my knowledge and skills to working well in these three types team. 1. Do not know how to control the conflict in the team-building. Generally speaking, the conflict will be occurred in the whole team operation process, especially the team-building run-in period. The team member need to through conversation, working, meeting to be more familiar. In the run-in period, my opinion might be not attention for the cooperation, and some member might be provided drastic discussion to let me felt bad when working in the team. Furthermore, the conflict will block my enthusiasm to contribute more creativity ideas when we were brainstorming. 2. Always need leader leading and follow the leader. In my past team experience, we always need to select the leader for the team. The leader will control all the schedule, resource, activity for the team, and I always waiting the leader to assign the work for me. In addition, the leader will control and make the final decision for the decision. According to my previous team experience, my main concern about the team cooperation is how to deal the team internal conflict. Journey through the ‘leading teams’ class This course provides me much more useful knowledge and experience on the cross-cultural teams, virtual teams, and X-teams. For the X-teams, it practices extreme...
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...creation of teams at Riordan Manufacturing. |Strategy |Strengths |Weaknesses | |Problem-solving teams are made up of 5-12 |All team members are the same level. |No leader role established | |employees from the same department that |Free expression of ideas. |The team cannot implement ideas or | |meets weekly to discuss the topics to |Familiarity of department and team. |suggestions. | |improve quality, efficiency, and the work | |Clouded view due to familiarity of | |environment. | |department and processes. | |Self-managed work teams are groups of 10 to|High level of job satisfaction |Poor conflict management | |15 people who tackle former supervisor’s |High level performers |Group conflict | |responsibilities. |Multi-tasking |Low group performance | | |Supervisors are needed less. |High absenteeism and turnover rates. | |Cross-functional teams are made up of |All team members are at the same level. |Building trust...
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...CASE ANALYSIS ON THE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT WORK TEAM MGT 131 F Group #TeamWork Members: Ablang, Rohanne ____________________ Dudas, Mary Joy ____________________ Jovellanos, Jamie Lee ____________________ Muega, Lou Erika ____________________ Pelayo, Zhinkie ____________________ Pile, Mariel ____________________ Piñero, Hannah Kristel ____________________ Date submitted: November 19, 2014 I. Point of View The group will take the point of view of Dave Regan, the manager of the work team because he is the person who has the authority and power to share the problem to the higher management and to implement the solutions to his subordinates. II. Problem Statement The case analysis aims to answer the question, “How will Dave Regan address the issue of secrecy and promote transparency within the virtual work team?” III. Analysis of Relevant Case Facts - T.A Searns uses superior computer databases and analysis tools for counseling clients. - Employees of T.A Stearns are usually lawyers and tax accountants who had picked up programming skills on the side. - Work in T.A Searns was carried out in a virtual environment by four programmers. - The Stearn programmers are a team rather than a group because each individual is responsible in every task they’ve done. - The programmers are interrelated. One must share...
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...Why Off-Sites Should Go Virtual: the Virt-Site By Keith Ferrazzi Organizations are all trying to do more with less. As the economic downturn drags on, companies have tightened their belts even further. Businesses continue to lay off thousands of workers; holiday parties are being drastically downscaled; executive perks like corporate jets have become history; and the list goes on. As part of that belt-tightening, some companies have begun to rethink their strategic off-sites. Instead of flying executives from around the world to an expensive three-day offsite location, why not just conduct everything virtually? The problem, though, has been that many companies have been trying to use videoconferencing, virtual reality technologies, and other tools to try to replicate physical off-sites. One idea was to encourage spontaneous conversations by simulating a “virtual cocktail hour. ” Wrong! The use of virtual technologies to replicate traditional physical off-sites misses a huge opportunity. Doing so results in a “poor man’s” version of the real thing, like online training courses that consist of nothing more than a video recording of an instructor followed by a test. Instead, companies need to be much smarter about how they conduct virtual off-sites. They need to leverage online’s unique characteristics to push beyond what’s possible in a physical setting and truly transform the process. Interviews with dozens of experts resulted in the following methodology, dubbed the virt-site...
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...that students and people interact with that work world. I want to create the primary website that employers go too in order to evaluate potential employees. There are many people who are looking for jobs who have many different skills; yet, they just need the opportunity to show employers what they are capable of doing. Employers are constantly facing different kinds of business challenges everyday that students/people searching for work could provide solutions for. This website is a way for students to help business professionals with their homework (research projects, investments pitches, sales information). At work, people are given "homework", problems that need solutions, research assignments, and the list goes on. People at work are often over-worked. Is there a way that these employers could post these projects to a website that students/people looking for work could then access these projects/research assignments. These students could then submit there suggestions or how they would complete the assignment. It is basically getting students to do some of the projects that people at work are doing. It makes the work of these companies easier and it could really help small businesses. It's great because the help is free and the business owners have the discretion whether to use it or not.. It gives these companies more data/options to work with. The students, if their work is used, would then be able to put that on their virtual resume. I think this would be easiest to...
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...bulk of the company business is the work obtained from the sub-contracts, in performing installs of plumbing and appliance needs. There are two large markets in the Alabama area, there is the Birmingham region and the Montgomery region. We have a total of five technicians that are scheduled to take care of the servicing needs of the customers. The one thing that the company makes the most money on is going to be the installation and sales of hot water heaters, and therefore those calls take priority. The Birmingham region is the most recent acquired by the company owner, and there are not as many stores and business in this area. We as a company are focusing on the growth in sales of the hot water heaters in both regions and the building of more jobs in the Birmingham region. When looking at the focus and the needs of the company it is very important to ensure that the technicians are well trained and know and understand what is needed and expected of them. The company is struggling at this time with the acquisition of the new region and trying to make money and provide the funds for the overhead and more. We as a company have been trying to go virtual, not only is this process faster but more accessible to multiple people within the company. What this means is that the office personnel can add notes to a work order or schedule a service call and the technicians are able to see that immediately after the changes and updates are saved on the work order. There are many effects focus...
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...Group Project On "Nature of work and organizing work in firms of the future” ‘Nature of work and organizing work in firms of the future’ Introduction Sweeping political, economic, social, and technological transformations are creating a fundamentally new era of business characterize by unprecedented complexity and rapid change. Large number of firms are struggling to stay afloat in this dynamic and intensely competitive environment, and the accepted ways of doing business are proving inadequate for doing business in future. At the same time, advances in information technology, coupled with emerging insights on organizations and the learning process, are greatly enhancing the ability of people to communicate and coordinate with one another both within and among organizations. These advances offer powerful new tools for dealing with the pressures of the business environment as well as promising a framework for creating entirely new opportunities for organizing and managing work in firm of future. Few people foresaw the vast changes that would be brought by the invention of the steam engine and the host of other mechanical devices that were the technological driving force behind the Industrial Revolution. Yet these advances completely transformed the nature of work as many of the old ways of organizing and managing business died away and new concepts emerged. The network of crafts and small cottage industries that had dominated the production of goods for centuries gave way...
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...background in several accounting specialties, and recently has earned her Certified public Accountant (CPA) certificate. The following information and our firm’s continued support will help guide Monica in the right direction in managing our vast accounting department. Five Stages of Group Development: As new employees are on-boarded, it is important understand the psychology of group formation. The development of groups will typically follow a five stage process. The five stages are: forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. Communication is essential throughout the group forming, as it will help the group move onto the next stage. The first stage, forming, is the initial orientation of a team. The members will work to grow to know each other as well as the mission and goals of the team. It is important to communicate to the team their roles and responsibilities to reduce potential conflict. Conflict is the basis of the next stage, the storming stage. The conflict arises as the members of the group assert their positioning within the group. Group leaders will emerge and their compatibility with the others in the team is vital to their continued formation. As the leader takes control of the group, the group enters the third stage of norming. In this stage, the group resolves the...
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