Exam 4: Work Design: Enabling Global Collaboration

Steve works for a pharmaceutical company and he specializes in marketing and sales. Steve travels often to customers and brings his "electronic office" with him when he goes.Steve also uses this same technology when he goes to the corporate office or works from home.According to the text,what type of worker is Steve?

What looks and acts like the Internet,but it is comprised of information used exclusively with a company and unavailable to the Internet community as a whole?

While there are many advantages to working remotely,there are some potential problems.For example,once work has been successfully performed remotely,a company may find economic reasons to let go of workers and choose to _______ the work abroad.

Which collaboration technology is becoming more and more popular within organizations because it provides a means for forming ad hoc groups,networking and locating potential business allies?

A virtual private network provides a remote worker with a secure connection over the very public __________ so that the remote worker has access to the company's ___________.

A virtual team is faced with communication,technology and ______ challenges.

Match the scenarios below as either representative of a virtual team or a more traditional team (non-virtual team).

An advantage of virtual teams is that members in different parts of the world can cooperate to get work done faster due to time zone differences. What is this called?

The life cycle of a virtual team consists of 5 phases.List these phases in the order they occur in the life cycle.

Diversity in virtual teams increases the communication challenges.However,virtual teams with diversity have demonstrated which of the following?