Essays on Groupware

Introduction

A multicultural organization is an organization characterized with a workforce of people from diverse social and cultural backgrounds. The workforce includes people from diverse religious, ethnic, racial and gender backgrounds, including those from minority social cultural backgrounds at all levels and in all departments of the organization (Wang & Chan, 2009). Virtual organizations are organizations primarily supported by technology such as World Wide Web, Internet, telecommunications, EDI, e-mails, videoconferencing and groupware. Organizations have been encouraged to become virtual to derive benefits that include lower overhead, lower labor costs, increased employee morale, more project options and flexibility (Wang & Chan, 2009). The ...

Groupware

Introduction

Many benefits have been realized through the use of groupware in organizations. Owing to this fact, I do not think that implementing groupware in our organization will be more trouble than it would be worth. As a matter of fact, I think groupware will have tremendous benefits to our organization. Over the years, there has been increasing need for collaboration and teamwork as a result of the immediate demand for effectual coordination necessary for realizing organizational goals. Consequently, groupware has been used as one of the key interlinks required to effortlessly connect members of organizations in different locations. Globalization has ...