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1. What are some reasons global teams fail? How might team members overcome communication barriers? Explain your answers.
2. What are some best practices for functioning in a global environment? Be specific.
3. How might a transnational organization's tactics be best aligned with its strategy? What happens when tactics are not aligned with strategy? Explain your answers.
4. Everyone agrees there is a need for the effective communication and sharing or information within the company. It is really easy for a manager to identify the need as well as determine if such communications is occurring. However, it is extremely difficult for managers to implement policies and processes to foster knowledge transfer. The question to the class is what do you do to improve the sharing of knowledge?
5. Meeting together is getting harder and harder in these days of budget cuts. I am a firm believer in the personal touch and insist on as many facts to face meetings with customers and my sales team as possible. While teleconferences and video conferences do take care of the routine activities, they do not build trust and relationships. Unfortunately in this day of highly automated meetings we are losing the personal touch. Any thoughts.
6. Many of you have noted the leadership role of the CEO as identified in the text. Leadership of the team and developing effective communications is a role of management in the global environment as well as the small sole proprietor company in any local community. It is a challenge for any CEO to develop a management team that works together without secrets and games. The open and effective sharing of information is a critical component of success.
The question for everyone is what should the CEO noted here as having managers they don't share information do about this situation?
7. Have your opinions and views changed since the Developing Grand Strategies Simulation? Have new challenges arisen?
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1. What are some reasons global teams fail? How might team members overcome communication barriers? Explain your answers.
Some reasons global teams fail is worth noting. First, they fail to communicate properly in the midst of time zone differences. This could range from a simple email, phone call, conference call, webinar, etc. When any of these occur, people are going to become disgruntled, and not do their work with the best of efforts to help customers get what it is they need or want within the company they work for at that time. Second, language barriers can become an issue because of many people on staff are able to speak a different language, then others may not understand what he or she is saying; hence, many will become frustrated because of it. Third, cultural difference can impact the team as well. If people are originally from those parts of the world, they understand their culture, but not others; consequently, people will get offended as a result.
Team members can overcome these problems by remaining sensitive to others in regards to their culture, language, and to make sure that communication is sought every step of the way. When people do this, then the teamwork is more likely going to happen because individuals greatly care about each other and their position within the company in order for success to occur on a global basis.
2. What are some best practices for functioning in a global environment? Be specific.
Some best practices for functioning in a global environment are crucial to the success of a company. One, organizations chose to align the countries goals with their core values. This means that they keep in mind what their host country desires them to do with the laws and with the customers, and make sure that it works well with that of their business. Two, communication from local to corporate made a difference. When communication occurs smoothly on a regular basis, people realize that they know what is expected of them, and they do it wholeheartedly because of what management wants them to do on a regular basis to meet the needs of customers effectively. Three, they were consistent from all regions. They said and did what they wanted to, but they did not falter from one thing to another in order that individuals are able to get the most out of their experiences and come back loyally as customers or to do their work well as employees. Last, management was self-aware through them respecting various cultures across the globe. They were sensitive, and did everything possible to make sure that needs were met no matter how long it took, and built the ...
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