Success Factors of Virtual Teams in the Conflict of Cross-Cultural Team Structures (PDF)

Inhaltsangabe:Introduction:
Due to strong competition and to the most recent market requirements, more and more enterprises or organisations (in the following organisation only) have to realign their business activities in a new way to cope with the current economic situation. Also in the respective organisational structures, specific changes have to be made to manufacture the products and to provide relevant services more effectively. Moreover, services are often provided increasingly no longer from a centralised location. For this reason, decentralised teams in various locations have developed, working together to jointly reach the targets. The services are either provided independently and on a full service basis, or such services are also provided in various parts and are then joined together or combined in other locations.
So overall, organisations are facing new challenges to a growing extent. On the one hand, they have to cope with customers from different cultural areas, and on the other hand, the structure of the employees is changing simultaneously. Whether these organisations have international departments or not, the trend is now clearly towards heterogeneous team structures. Consequently, it is crucial for the organisations to be successful in spite of generally tougher market conditions. And this operational success will not come about automatically but will require well-functioning, efficient teams.
As the author works in an international team with intercultural structures, there has been from the very start a particular interest in the findings and insights to be obtained in the framework of the work for this thesis.
Objective:
For the reasons given above, the objective is to identify and define the factors which are principally necessary for effective and successful team work. To adjust to and cope with the particular relationships within the organisations, the focus will be on considering and analysing virtual teams in an international and intercultural business environment.
Progress of research work and analyses:
Before starting with the proper analysis of the success factors for team building; first of all, the theoretical basis will be provided. So a general overview will be given on the central subject matter, and simultaneously, basic concepts will be initially presented.
The second chapter deals with the topic of team and team work. Starting with the central topic¿s partial aspect ¿virtual team¿, the term ¿team¿ will [...]