Teaming Across Distance and Culture

Teaming Across Distance and Culture
Teaming Across Distance and Culture
Conduct a poll of at least five people by asking the following questions. Evaluate each answer and decide whether you would consider it as hedonic or eudaimonic, and record it in the table. Finally, answer the question below the table in 200-350 words.
· What makes you happy?
· Would you say you are living “the good life?” Why or why not?
· If you could make any changes you wished that would make you happier, what would those be?
Teaming Across Distance and Culture.
• What are the major effects of the physical separation of group members? How can distance, in some cases, be beneficial to groups and teams?
• What other areas of organizational behavior or design are impacted by information technology, and what are the implications for organizational change?
• Brainstorm some ways to “redesign” your office space (or an office space you have previously worked in) on paper using virtual or flexible space, or flexible furniture. How would this redesign enhance successful teamwork?
• What are some of the ways that cross-cultural teams are distinguished from other types of teams? What are some of the benefits and difficulties of building a cross-cultural team?
Conduct a poll of at least five people by asking the following questions. Evaluate each answer and decide whether you would consider it as hedonic or eudaimonic, and record it in the table. Finally, answer the question below the table in 200-350 words.
· What makes you happy?
· Would you say you are living “the good life?” Why or why not?
· If you could make any changes you wished that would make you happier, what would those be?
Teaming Across Distance and Culture.
• What are the major effects of the physical separation of group members? How can distance, in some cases, be beneficial to groups and teams?
• What other areas of organizational behavior or design are impacted by information technology, and what are the implications for organizational change?
• Brainstorm some ways to “redesign” your office space (or an office space you have previously worked in) on paper using virtual or flexible space, or flexible furniture. How would this redesign enhance successful teamwork?