Growing globalization
and developments in communication expertise have powered the advent of
worldwide virtual teams. There is abundant prospective for conflict in virtual
teams as associates work through ethnic, geographic, and time borders. National
variety is probable to add to both task and relationship conflict whereas
functional multiplicity may affect task conflict. Enormous capacities of
automated communication and dearth of nearness of feedback in asynchronous
means can add to task conflict. Furthermore, the association amid task conflict
and team success is expected to be depending upon job difficulty and conflict
resolve method. The impact of relationship conflict on work might be contingent
on task dependence and conflict purpose method.

Virtual teams are
defined as vigorous teams whose associates are physically and temporally
disseminated and work distantly, often reliant on automated technology. The
effort in harnessing the potential of virtual teams may be associated with an
incapability to efficiently manage the conflict and expressive actions of
virtual team members.

Research
question, significance and methodology of the research

i. Research question

“The research question which is to be answered through this question is
that what are the various factors that affect the effective team management and
the impact of virtual teams on the organisations culture, behaviour and
communication within teams?”

ii. Significance

The significance of this research paper
is to draw upon the experts opinions with respect to the already available
literature and the research done by the previous authors. This research will
bring focus on the real time issues and the possible solutions of the problem
of virtual team management in most of the organisations owing to the
geographically dispersed teams.

iii. Methodology

The methodology for the above mentioned research question
will be combination of primary and secondary research which will be carried out
in phases with primary research following the secondary research (Bogdan,
1975).

TASK	DURATION (IN DAYS)
Review of journals	2
Review of news reports	2
Review of books	2
Analysis of the secondary information	1
Consolidation of the qualitative information	1
Determination of independent variables, Determination of Sampling frame, Determination of sampling technique, Determination of Sample size.	1
Formation of interview questionnaire	1
Administration of the questionnaire	1
Analysis of the quantitative data	1
Result formation and Interpretation	2
Reporting of the results	1

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