Reflection (due by Week 10) [20 marks]

The reflection should be written after you establish a successful virtual team. The reflection should describe the process of 4 main components of virtual management: team building, tools, procedures, and task management. Please use these guidelines on how to do so:

1. Virtual Team: (4 marks- 200 words)

In this section, you need to describe the virtual team.

• Name your team and specify the field you will focus on.
• Who are your team members, and what are their roles?
• What are the personal objectives of each member (why you joined the team)?
• What is the collective goal for your team (how will your team be successful in that field)?
• How the team experienced Bruce Tuckman’s four different stages of team building?

2. Virtual Tool (5 marks- 700 words)

In this section, you describe choosing a tool for your virtual team.

• What are the main and complimentary virtual tools did you use to manage the tasks? (provide pictures)
• Describe the features of these tools that were useful to your teamwork (provide pictures).
• Why did you choose these tools? What are the other options?
• Suppose your budget was SAR 10k; how did you use that budget to get the best possible tool?
• How frequently does the team meet? How long is each meeting? (Provide photos of the team meetings at different times)
• How the meeting minutes helped your team stay focused? (Provide an example of your team meeting minutes).

3. Virtual work dynamics (5 marks- 700 words)

• How did you create a virtual office?
  • What are the technical challenges that you faced in your work?
  • Give some examples of work ethics/ culture in China.
• How did you utilize vacation time and holiday time?
• What are the challenges that your team faced in communication?
  • Specify how space, time, and cultural differences affected the communication process.
• How did you overcome those challenges? (discuss from different roles’ perspectives).

4. Reports and presentations (5.5 marks- 500 words)

• Provide an example of a proposed strategy your team worked on to make the marketing campaign successful for the Chinese company in the chosen field.
• The report should be 300 words describing the status and statistics of the chosen field and how customers (target audience) can be reached.
  • The report should have an introduction, a brief strategy, and a conclusion.
• Include graphs and statistics to support your report (use local resources. If they were in Arabic, translate them).
• The Chinese company representative in your team should provide his/her feedback on the report (one or two comments)
• The rest of the team should address those comments.
• Tell us how your teamwork was, what you would do better, and how you will thrive in the future.

5. Conclude your reflection (0.5 mark- 100 words)

Useful links:

• http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/studentservices/documents/planning-and-preparing-to-write-assignments.pdf
• APA reference system https://student.unsw.edu.au/apa
• About plagiarism http://wts.indiana.edu/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml
• About plagiarism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism

Guidelines for the assignment:

• This is a group project (4-5 students in each group), which is part of your course score. It requires effort, collaboration and critical thinking.
• Use the given template below. One mark will be deducted if there is this template is not used.
• Your assignment must be supported by evidence and resources. Otherwise, your answer will not be valid.
• Use at least 3 different references from the SDL including the Textbook
• Use font Times New Roman, Calibri or Arial.
• Use 1.5 or double line spacing with left Justify all paragraphs.
• Use the footer function to insert page number.
• Ensure that you follow the APA style in your project.
• Your project report length should be between 2000 to 2500 words.

Up to 20% of the total grade will be deducted for providing a poor assignment structure. The structure includes these elements paper style, free of spelling and grammar mistakes, referencing, and format.

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