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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A virtual team is aware as a geographically dispersed team (Dave‚ 2013). It is a group of members who work across boundaries of time‚ space and organizational with links strengthened by a number of different communication technology to coordinate their individual efforts and inputs (Peters and Manz‚ 2007). Members of a virtual team communicate through electronic tools such as Skype and E-mail‚ and some of them may never meet face-to-face (Vlaar‚ 2008). Nowadays‚ every organization considers that
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life in the climate of many organizations‚ while job security is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. The survival of many organizations depends on the ability of the organization to rapidly change its structure‚ culture and products to match the changing demands of the environment. [1] This ever-changing environment has set the stage for a new dimension of project management… Project Management (PM) is the discipline of planning‚ organizing and managing resources to bring about the successful
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Virtual teams were almost unheard of a decade ago‚ but today they are an integral part of every organization. The recent “offshore outsourcing” trend and the growth of the Internet and similar globally linking technologies are major contributor to the increase in the use of virtual teams. Virtual teams are made up of people working on interdependent tasks and interacting largely via communication technology to achieve a common goal without concerns of time and space. Such teams carry out many critical
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| Team work Introduction Teamwork is a situation where people cooperate to meet common goals (Dinsmore and Brewin 151). In teamwork‚ people are able to exchange useful aspects that are necessary for the accomplishment of the organizational goals. For instance‚ the staff gets a chance to exchange information‚ opinions as well as useful ideas. This improves the performance of a group. Through teamwork‚ the employees’ productivity is increased significantly. The human resource management
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Introduction and Thesis Nowadays‚ virtual techniques have become more and more popular. In the article I have chosen‚ the author believes that members of successful virtual collaboration teams (VCTs) need strong interpersonal and collaboration skills‚ which include establishing trust‚ embracing diversity‚ knowledge sharing and so on (Roy‚ 2012). In addition‚ compared to traditional face-to-face collaboration‚ this article also illustrates the advantages and disadvantages of VCTs. After reading
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Large virtual team Management Introduction “Leadership is the ability to get men to do what they don’t want to do and like it”‚ (Cohen et al. 2001‚ p254) quoting Harry Truman. This can be achieved forcible‚ threat of danger or by content‚ process and behavior. The latter is the selection for a successful team and an environment that breathe success. Assumptions The assumptions are made that the team is fluent in the English language and have agreed on a subgrouping arrangement by time zones
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|Management Theory and Practice | Copyright © 2011 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course explores the rich field of management in theory and practice‚ and as both a science and an art. Students learn to apply management concepts to current workplace issues. Other topics include increasing competitive forces‚ expectations for successful performance of employees and organizations‚ and achieving
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Patton-fuller community hospital case study Abstract Finance‚ understanding how it affects the smallest business to the largest organization‚ is the origin to financial success in businesses. According to Gitman (2006)‚ finance is the art and science of managing money. Virtually every individual business and large organization‚ Be the organization for profit or non-profit‚ depends on the rates at which these entities earn‚ or raise money‚ and the rate at which they spend or invest these earned
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Managing Virtual Team in Projects University: Athabasca University Abstract Due to advanced communication technologies‚ globalization and outsourcing most of the project management teams are based on groups of individuals called virtual teams who work across time and space using communication technologies. Members of virtual teams may be employees of same company from same country‚ or they can be contractors‚ suppliers and company employees around the globe. Managing
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