Virtual Teams in Action: Building the F-35 Fighter Case Study 1 By: Alyssa Dimeck MGT 404 10/09/2011 Professor Samuel Palmeri Virtual Teams in Action: Building the F-35 Fighter CASE SUMMARY The U.S. Department of Defense is known for their F-35 Lighting II Program; the focal point for defining affordable next generation stealth fighter aircraft. In 2002‚ the Department of Defense announced Lockheed Martin Aeronautic as the designer and builder of the fighter with Northrop Grumman and
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FINDINGS [findings] Eric does not have much time. The four team meetings have proven to be more frustrating than productive. He has seven of FireArt’s top-level managers under his direction but not under his control. He could accept failure; he has alternatives. Perhaps he should abandon a sinking ship‚ accept his sunk-costs and look for opportunity elsewhere in the market. [writing style is a little inefficient – consider my changes] Team 14 recommends [or proposes] that Eric should instead hunker
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What are the advantages of having diversity on a team? What challenges might the team face because of diversity? Having diversity on a team allows for a more creative and productive team. Each team member has their own point of views‚ experience‚ and skills. This allows more than one method to completing a particular task. Challenges a diverse team may face is discrimination‚ lack of understanding or miscommunication within the team. Lack of understanding and miscommunication may be because of
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Curling is a precision team sport similar to bowls or bocce‚ played on a rectangular sheet of prepared ice by two teams of four players each‚ using heavy polished granite stones which players slide down the ice towards a target area called the house. Points are scored for the number of stones that a team has closer to the centre of the target than the closest of the other team’s stones. The game is thought to have been invented in late medieval Scotland‚ with the first written reference to a contest
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Outcome 1 Plan collaborative work with others Assessment Criteria The learner can: 1.1 Describe what makes groups or teams effective in the workplace 1.2 Agree realistic objectives for working together and identify what needs to be done to achieve them Objectives set to Cover Supervisor team by our line manager include: o Provide suitable cover to lessons when a teacher is absent. o Hand completed work back to staff appropriately with explanation of any issues taking place. o
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of a 6-person team. The team all works out of an office in NJ. The team is made up of the following people: John - 43 year old (Afro-American) Julie - 51 year old (Chinese) Jinsoo - 27 year old (Korean) Shahid - 32-year male (Iranian) Harpreet - 30-year-old female (Indian) Tom - 33 year old (Irish) With the exception of John all team members have green cards and none has been in NJ for over 5 years. Shahid and Harpreet joined the team 6 months ago. The rest of the team has been together
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Will teams work? 1. What is the managerial context in which these managers will be operating? Do you think training designed to help managers understand the context they will be operating in will be helpful? Why or why not? Managers will be now need to be able to manage teams to problem solve‚ which given the current way these managers manage people can prove to be difficult. Training will most definitely help these managers understand a good approach to handling employee teams and to
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Team Leadership – Term Paper Scope and Objective: In the beginning of the semester our Team Leadership class was presented with the task to help make an organization’s team more effective. We had the freedom to choose who our desired organization could be and to observe them. After much thought and consideration‚ we chose to observe the Association of Information Technology Professionals‚ more commonly known as AITP. Our goal for this semester was to observe the AITP group and evaluate our findings
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students or employees‚ often working in teams. The reports generally require that the writers • define the subject matter and identify the related factors • learn how the subject has been addressed or what the experts recommend when addressing the issue For this project‚ the topic is selected for you: Team-building in the Workplace. Requirements: To gather information for your report‚ you will read your classmates’ interview guides and the articles on team-building in the workplace provided for
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Team Leadership Team Leadership Most leaders can identify their employees’ personalities and deal with them‚ by applying effective leadership approaches. Leaders can also apply some prior knowledge skills about the group of individuals within the organization. Leaders also provide their organizations with a combination of effective strategies and fresh ideas. This writer will send a memo to her manager‚ to discuss her assigned duties given to her by management; about a new department
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