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What are Lynda Gratton’s rules for managing virtual teams?,”1. Invest in an online resource where members can learn quickly about one another.2. Choose from a few team members who already know each other.3. Identify “”boundary spanners”” and ensure that they make up 15% of them.Boundary Spanner: people who have lots of connections to useful people outside the team4. Cultivate boundary spanners as a regular part of company wide practices and processes. Growing boundary spanners throughout the company helps ensure virtual teams are pulled together, and some members will have met before.5. Break the team’s work up into modules so that progress in one location is not overly dependent on progress in another.6. Create an online site where a team can collaborate, exchange ideas and inspire another.7. Encourage frequent communication. But, don’t force social gatherings.8. Assign only tasks that are challenging and interesting.9. Ensure the task is meaningful to the team and the company.10. When building a virtual team

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What factors enhance group cohesiveness?,”1. level of participation within group- as cohesiveness increases, group participation increases2. level of conformity to group norms- increase in cohesiveness, increase in conformity; not enough deviance leads to conformity even to norms that are dysfunctional and too little leads to undermining the control of the group 3. emphasis on group goal accomplishment- increase in cohesiveness

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