In working out your responses to the Discussion Question, you should choose examples from your own experience or find appropriate cases on the Web that you can discuss. Credit will be given for references you make to relevant examples from real companies. Please make sure that you cite and reference all your outside sources properly, as per the Harvard Referencing System.
You are managing a large virtual team of 300 individuals located across the globe. These individuals are all volunteers, each contributing on average about 5-10 hours per week to the project. The project goal is to develop a set of recommendations for regulating carbon emissions around the world.
Answer and discuss the following questions:
What would be the best way to structure this large virtual team?
List the three most important issues that you foresee in managing this team. How would you solve these issues?
What would you do to motivate these individuals so that they continue contributing towards achieving the project goal?