Communication, trust and productivity

ECOM 201 Assignment 1

Due to the remarkable raise and advancement of technology, lots of large companies are moving forward to digitalize and virtualize how they do business internally and externally, such as virtual teams.

Moreover, one of the virtual team advantages is the ability for a company to create the dream team without boundaries as it eliminates the element of desistance, core knowledge and skills limitation.

With all these wonderful components there are many issues and might have a large negative impact to the whole process of creating a virtual team and working as and within a virtual team. These concerns can be outlined as the following:

• Communication
• Trust
• Productivity

Questions

1. Define each negative factor and explain why it is an issue.
2. Outline 2 solutions for each of the presented issues.

This is an individual project, which is part of your course score. It requires effort and critical thinking.Guidelines for the project assignment:

• Your answer must be supported by different resources (at least 4 references sources).
• Any proof of copying will result to 0 mark.
• Use font Times New Roman, Calibri or Arial.
• Use 1.5 or double line spacing with left Justify all paragraphs.
• Use the footer function to insert page number.
• Ensure that you follow the APA style in your project.
• Your project report length should be between 600 to 800 words.

Useful links:

• http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/studentservices/documents/planning-and-preparing-to-write-assignments.pdf
• APA reference system https://student.unsw.edu.au/apa
• About plagiarism http://wts.indiana.edu/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml
• About plagiarism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism

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Last Updated on March 10, 2020