Case Name :      Virtual Teams at Ivey

Authors :           Derrick Neufeld, Jake Santora

Source :             Ivey Publishing

Case ID :            W13343

Discipline :        General Management

Case Length :    09 pages

Solution Sample availability : YES

Plagiarism : NO (100% Original work)

A student has just completed the first day of an Executive MBA program. He had completed his undergraduate business degree more than a decade earlier and now ponders how to best tackle the demanding program workload, while continuing to fulfill his commitments both at work and in his personal life. Even greater, though, are the challenges of effectively communicating and coordinating schoolwork assignments with his seven-person “virtual” learning team. The teaching note provides a Virtual Team Characteristics Framework to highlight the critical variables associated with effective virtual team outcomes.