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Course, academic year 2024/2025
  
Global Virtual Teams - AM501023
Title: Global Virtual Teams
Guaranteed by: Department of Economics and Management (837)
Faculty: Central University Departments of UCT Prague
Actual: from 2024
Semester: winter
Points: winter s.:6
E-Credits: winter s.:6
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/4, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Charvátová Dagmar Ing. Ph.D.
This subject contains the following additional online materials
Course completion requirements

Zápočet: aktivní účast na cvičeních, zpracování projektových a individuálních úkolů

Zkouška: 60% hodnocení = kvalita výstupů v projektu; 40% hodnocení = kvalita individuálního výstupu v podobě reflektivní eseje

Last update: Vlachý Jan (06.04.2020)
Literature

Povinná literatura:

Adler, R.B., Elmhorst, J and Lucas, K. (2013). Communicating at Work. Chapter 7: Leading and

Working in Teams. New York: McGraw-Hill, pp. 184-209.

Camerer, R. & Mader, J (2012). Intercultural Competence in Business English. Chapter 3: Intercultural

theory. Cornelsen: Berlin, pp. 29-41.

Camerer, R. & Mader, J (2012). Intercultural Competence in Business English. Chapter 7: Corporate

Last update: Vlachý Jan (06.04.2020)
Requirements to the exam -

Active participation, regular attendance, completion of project and individual tasks

The assessment is as follows: 60%=60 points for successful completion of all tasks in the GVTs project. The quality of the exchange outputs will depend on the quality of students' input; 40%=40points for a written reflection based on the project teamwork critical incidents.

There is no end of semester examination.

Last update: Švecová Lenka (14.09.2022)
Syllabus

The subject focuses on development of teamwork competence in global virtual teams in the business environment. The students will receive in-class input based on theoretical background and hands-on practice to be able to carry out team project work among five European universities (CR, Germany, Ireland, France, Finland). The teams work as consultants providing a small or medium-sized enterprise with recommendations for developing a digital corporate communication strategy for a country in which the enterprise is currently not operating, but to which it is considering expanding. In the course plan, there are three synchronous project workshops in which the teams meet and work together on the project tasks. As a project follow-up, the students write individually a reflection based on critical incidents collected throughout the project work.

1. Introduction to working in GVTs; basic concepts

2. Aspects of working in GVTs

3. Video-conferencing skills for GVTs

4. Developing a cross-cultural communication strategy

5. Workshop 1 – agile work processes in GVTs

6. Critical-incident analysis

7. Selecting a foreign market

8. Selecting a digital communication strategy

9. Workshop 2 – working on internationalisation ideas

10. Workshop 3 – preparing the team presentation and executive summary

11. Best practice in GVTs

12. Video conference presentations of project results

13. Writing a reflection on GVTs using the critical incidents 1

14. Writing a reflection on GVTs using the critical incidents 2

Last update: Švecová Lenka (14.09.2022)
Teaching methods
Activity Credits Hours
Obhajoba individuálního projektu 1 28
Příprava na přednášky, semináře, laboratoře, exkurzi nebo praxi 1 28
Práce na individuálním projektu 2 56
Účast na seminářích 2 56
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