Strength And Weakness Of Virtual Team

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A virtual team is group of people work to achieve a common goal and is connected by technology by which they are physically separated from each other. Virtual teams are growing very fast in this networking economy. With the growing trends of e-commerce, globalization and even off-shoring individual workers must now partners with their peers to complete daily work tasks. In other words, we can say that a
virtual team is group of individuals working together across time and space using electronic communication technology i.e. video conferencing, e-mails, text chats etc. One major benefit of virtual teams is that organizations can select the best talent anywhere from the world and another it saves the organization’s moneybyreducing the office space requirements as team members can work from home as well.

But the Virtual Team is not problem-free and in order to be as effective as possible they have to overcome challenges such as,


Time Zone Difference:This alone can make it difficult to communicate ...
... within a team.


Difficulty in measuring engagement: It is difficult to detect the lack of engagement in team members. This can lead to less productivity.


Less Trust: Due to geographically a- parted from each other there may be less trust between team members.