Evaluate the challenge and opportunity of managing a diverse global workforce to create value and achieve organisational goals.

Learning Outcomes:

After completing the module, you should be able to:

3. Evaluate the challenge and opportunity of managing a diverse global workforce to create value and achieve organisational goals.

4. Understand the factors that contribute to the notion of a globalised economy demonstrating an awareness of ethically sound and accountable international policies.

Task 3:
Individual written assignment tasks (50% of the final grade) As a result of research conducted in 2001, Govindarajan and Gupta (2001 cited in Ferrazzi 2014, p2) found that 82% of Global Virtual Teams fell short of their goals and 33% rated themselves as largely unsuccessful.

Source: Ferrazzi, K., 2014. Getting Virtual Teams Right. Harvard Business Review [Online] available at

https://hbr.org/2014/12/getting-virtual-teams-right

Prepare a report that critically discusses the evidence about why such teams might fail and the factors that maximise success for a global virtual team.

In answering this question, you should engage with key concepts and research signposted in module material and your own extensive reading.

You should also consider the extent to which factors that lead to success with global virtual are one and the same as those that lead to success for homogenous, traditional teams.

Your considerations need to be backed up by extended reading of academic scholarly work and must not be based upon your opinion.

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