Imagine that you are assigned to work with a virtual team. What challenges and drawbacks might you encounter? What technological methods of communication would you use most often to communicate? Why? [Understand/Apply]
What industries and types of businesses would be most likely to be open to the use of self-managing teams? What industries and types of businesses would be least open to the use of self-managing teams? Explain your answers. [Analyze/Evaluate]
What criteria would you as a manager use in determining whether a problem-solving team should also be a cross-functional team? In other words, what types of issues would a problem-solving team from the same functional area solve most efficiently and what types of issues would a problemsolving team that is also cross-functional solve most efficiently? [Analyze/Evaluate]
Review the case about Brian Stevens’ management challenge at the tractor assembly plant. Generate a list of at least five possible explanations for the problems affecting the self-managing team responsible for purchasing. Pick the two explanations and explain what you believe Brian’s next steps should be in each case. [Evaluate/Create]LO7