Question

Consider yourself as Global Manager for one of the following Saudi companies: Jarir Bookstore, Baja, Al-Baik, Herfy or Coffee Day. At present the company you’ll choose is planning to do business in the USA and UK. You are required to develop a detail strategy on the following:

Part 2:

• What are techniques that you will be using in order to create a strong team with a high level of teamwork?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of managing a virtual team?
• What type of conflicts might occur between members? When it’s happened how will you solve it?
• As a manager how you will manage the outsourced projects?
• What techniques that you will apply to encourage and motivate your team for improvement?

1. To have a strong team with a high level of teamwork I will create a team and inspire them and not drive to do good work. I will lead them and guide them rather than directing and pressurising them for completing tasks. I will always make sure that conflicts are avoided and resolved immediately when they happen because a conflictive environment can cause unproductivity of teams. I will develop an atmosphere of open communication where the team members can easily and openly interact about their issues and I can convey my message to them clearly. I will set clear goals based on the mission and vision of the organization and intimate them to the members effectively. I will evaluate the performances of the team based on the goals and guide the team to improve where it is required. I will also appreciate and reward members for good performance which motivates them to perform consistently and sets an example before others for the same.

2. The advantages of managing virtual teams are that the overhead costs of building and maintaining teams are less, gives the members a convenience of flexibility or working hours and location of work hence improves their productivity, it becomes easy to expand the business and develop the teams without needing more physical space for it. The disadvantages of having virtual teams can be that making every member available at the time of need becomes a challenge and the organizational structure is more fragmented, developing a personal relationship helps in a stronger team, not having a physical presence in interactions brings lack of connectivity, the members of the team can take the company or goals easy when the company works virtually instead of having a physical existence.

Project report structure:

• Title Page: the name of the institution, the title of the report, the name of the author and then add the date.
• Abstract: Brief summary of your work.
• Table of contents:

1.Introduction: Background or introduction to state what the report is about. You must give the reader an overview of the whole report.

2.Main Body of the report: Include your main work.

3.Conclusion.

4.References: Use APA style.

Answer 1

Introduction

High level of tteamwork is assured when a culture of integration and collaboration is fostwred and unique mix of teams with cross functional specialists is formed which results in high performance and hence team work cokes naturally.

Body: Team performance

Members often face conflicts related to team goalsand individual pursuits or benefits take place however which can be resolved by taking common ground approach and ensuring both members act in larger benefits of organisation.

As manager one must ensure high degree of compliance to cultural values and motuvate teams extrinsically and intrinsically to keep giving best performance. Managers have to become leaders and chart outcareer plans as well as supporting amd appreciation of employees ideasand opinions to drive highest performance.

Conclusion :

Any successful business is run by teamwork as corporate management is like playing football where all players cojointly strive forward for common goal.

Starting with HR which forms crux of employment and widening and talent acquisition, employee engagement, talent spotting, reserving and growing talent, promoting talent, corporate governance, ethical management and industrial labor relations has the potential to build strongest base for organisations.

Financial team comprises of risk management and investment banking, accounting, payments, and legal and audit requirements.

Marketing teams handle sales, marketing, public relations, digital marketing, analytics, strategy development.

Operations team make up for supply chain management, logistics, purchase, procurement, maintenance, supervision and engineering.

IT forms technical and analytical support and cyber security rusk support.

Thus we see all teams are intee related and it is cross functionality that drives success. Eliminate any one function and whole organisation gets paralysed. If HR doesn't work the administration collapses. If Finance doesn't work out no marketing expenditure can be taken ahead. If Operations doesnt work there is no production nor sales.
If IT doesnt work there is no marketing and no payment mechanism.

Hence all functions are extremely important and independent. However in overall opinion Hr forms the base because HR function recruits people who are biggest stakeholders and any degradation or malfunctioning in HR can destabilise any organisation.

References

How to improve Team performance, March 10th 2019, by Gal Rimon, GAmeffective.