Computer Mediated Virtual Terms

With the advent of globalization multinational companies have their teams based in different countries all working towards one goal. The interaction of culturally diverse teams based out of every location brings in intercultural communication in small groups. They have to follow certain norms such as ethical boundaries in communication for formal purpose, respect each other and find ways to work hand in hand with everyone. In fact these groups execute projects from various parts of the world successfully with communication based on Computer Mediated Virtual Teams. Thus multinational, multicultural, distributed teams present both opportunities and challenges for organizations. Although demographic dissimilarity and differences in country of birth can decrease the level of trust among group members, reducing their feelings of confidence in each other’s abilities, diminishing their relational openness, and challenging their substantive and mutually influential information exchange. Krebs and colleagues (2006) found that distributed teams who meet via computer-mediated communication maintain higher levels of trust, confidence and productivity than those teams that meet face to face.