$1.$ Groups and work teams

Identify whether each of the examples below best represents a group, a work team, or a virtual team.

Example

Group

Work Team

Virtual Team

You and some of your coworkers have been asked to come up with a new way of measuring customer satisfaction for your company. Your boss says that he wants you to work together because you all have strengths that are complementary. The good news is that nobody is acting like they$$re in charge$$you are all working together on the project.

Roberta is a chief software engineer at DataPro. She works with employees in San Jose, Berlin, Tel Aviv, and Dublin. The team meets for conference calls at $7$ a$.$m$.$ San Jose time, because it is late afternoon at that time for all of the other team members.

Salespeople at Data Inc. are paid on commission. They work individually, but their boss combines their sales results each quarter to see how the company is doing.