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The Study of Global Team Management & Job Involvement

ABSTRACT
Title: The Study of Global Team Management & Job Involvement
Author: Ju-Hui Tsai
Advisor: Professor Bih-Shiaw Jaw
The emergence of global teams has been caused by the globalization of the world economy. Multinational corporations are benefiting from the use of global teams; however, they are facing many management challenges as well. This research is to explore current global team management practice & job involvement. After the author interviewed 7 global teams in high-tech multinational corporations, the propositions are as follows:
Proposition 1: The less global team experiences the members have, the more local managers¡¦ assistance they need. Local managers assist members engaged in local environment soon. Local managers are also consultative for local legal regulations, salary market & employee development.
Proposition 2: The more global team experiences the members have, the higher degree of cross culture knowledge they have. The best way to learn cross culture management knowledge is to realize through daily working experiences.
Proposition 3: Those global teams who emphasize more on culture diversity management have better performance.
Proposition 4: The key successful factor to increase global team performance is to select mature, experienced & independent members.
Proposition 5: The most important criteria for global team selection are language & communication capabilities.
Proposition 6: The most challenging for global teams is unable to have effective communication in real time.
Proposition 7: Global team model is not sure better than traditional team model for corporations. It depends on the industry & the business scope.
Proposition 8: For team members, the advantage of global team experiences is to underst& other countries¡¦ environment. But on the other h&, the disadvantage is lacking in sense of belongings.
Proposition 9: The most challenging for global team performance management is how to display one¡¦s capability or to realize employees¡¦ real performance cross time zones & boundaries.
Proposition 10: Those global teams who set up regular communication mechanism have higher job involvement.
Key words: global teams, cross culture management, job involvement

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0826104-090111
Date26 August 2004
CreatorsTsai, Ju-Hui
ContributorsKuo-Jen Su, Liang-Chih Huang, Bih-Shiaw Jaw
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0826104-090111
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