Fifth Generation Work - Virtual Organization
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Teams |
A team is a group of people who share a common understanding of their mission, have the variety of skills necessary (or that can be acquired) to meet that mission, and work together to accomplish that mission This site covers some of the methods and technologies used by teams and related to working together electronically. |
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Virtual Teams |
Virtual teams are teams that primarily interact electronically. |
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Communities of Practice |
CoP's can not be mandated, but can be formed, encouraged, and nurtured. This researcher and writer has been encouraging the formation of a community of practice within a set of practitioner faculty. The faculty work on a part time basis and under normal circumstances have little interaction with each other, let alone meet with one another. Formal meetings are held periodically, but with new faculty coming and going, social relationships are tenuous.
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Distance Education |
Education at a distance: faculty and students may physically be in different places at different times and use a variety of software products such as Outlook Express, WebCT, BlackBoard, Moodle ( http://www.moodle.com ) among others to obtain assignments, post assignments, and ask and receive questions. This seems to be a fast growing method of education. |
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Project Management |
Distributed project management teams use a variety of methods and technologies to work together on projects. Essentially a virtual team with perhaps some specialized software such as Microsoft Project or Primavera that other teams may not require. |
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Telecommuting |
Telecommuting or telework as it is also known, is about working at the office from home or other location. Mobile technologies such as cell phones, PDAs, and laptop computers along with communication technologies such as the Internet make this possible. Some organizations let employees telecommute one or two days per week or so, while other organizations expect people to be in the office every day. |
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Virtual Management |
One of the primary concerns I hear from managers is that they cannot manage people they cannot see. However, this need not be the case. We have a wide body of knowledge as well as experience in managing what we cannot see. For example, instructors evaluate students based on their deliverables (e.g., assignments and tests); we contract out maintenance for our vehicles (and pay for it) while never watching the work being performed; we have our bodies analyzed -- blood tests and the like - at hospitals and never see the work performed; and so on. Instead of managing people we see, we can learn to manage people by deliverables. | ||
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