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State jurisprudence
State jurisprudence
Please use the essay-guided format provided. There are three parts to this assignment. Part one will illustrate an understanding of New York State laws as it pertains to dental hygiene. Part two will demonstrate an understanding of laws in Louisana as it pertains to dental hygiene. The last part will demonstrate an understanding of the laws of a few different countries: Austria, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland. Minimum 1 paragraph for each question.
Cite all sources using the 7th edition APA format.
Guidelines for Virtual Teams
Guidelines for Virtual Teams
Guideline 1: Produce personal profiles:
• Accelerate the “getting-to-know” process
• Personal information:
• Name, address, contact information, preference of communication
• Personal description: who are you and what are your likes, dislikes?
• What is your professional description: what do you do and what is your contribution to the
team?
• Specific question:
• What do you see as the goals and milestones of the project?
• What are the risk and challenges we are going to face?
• What are some solutions from your experience
Guideline 2: Develop virtual socializing skills
• Electronic communications offer little interpersonal contacting
• As a team leader, you need to make sure that the team members have opportunities for
formal and social relationship building
• Encourage subject-related topics – teams do not want to talk only about the project
• Create scenarios that will engage the team through communication
• Remember: some members of the team might feel geographically, functionally, or culturally
isolated as a manager you need to integrate them
Guideline 3: Agree on a Code of Conduct Protocol
• Code of conduct ~ an agreement which defines the rules and processes by which the team
members chose to operate
• ~ goal: build the formal team culture
• Code of Conduct provides guidelines on how to act and proceed in order to reduce
uncertainty and frustration in the team
• Based on values that the team should hold
• Code identifies potentially relevant issues and defines how
problems should be solved
Guideline 4: Agree on a Communication Protocol
• Virtual teams use unnatural communication protocols
• Communication protocol documents which tools and processes are used by team members
on which occasions
• Includes guidance on etiquette
• Details:
• Communication technology
• Format of communication
• SOP for timeliness and quality of communication
Guideline 5: Meetings Protocol
• No meeting without a standard agenda
• Attendance is required (no attendance – apologies beforehand)
• Routine e.g., going around the table and invite each team member to contribute
• As a rule: camera is always switched on
• Making a contribution: raising hand or chipping in
• Record or take written minutes
Guideline 6: Project Plan
• Plan = guidance and orientation for team members
• Should allow compartmentalization so that individual team members work on their own
plan
• Plan details:
• What needs to be accomplished during each phase
• Dependent and independent tasks
• Constraints of each phase
• How the team should operate to complete the tasks successfully
• Do not forget timely updating
• Do not forget slack
Guideline 7: Plan for Training and Competency
• Team members have been chosen on the basis of skills, competencies and expertise
• Have they been trained on working in virtual teams
• Technical skills
• Social skills (- intercultural sensitivity)
• Cognitive skills (reasoning, problem-solving, decision-making)
• Self-management and motivation
• Project management
• Give each team member the responsibility to look after and train on a specific technology
Guideline 8: Produce a Reporting and Recording Protocol
• How will information be recorded in a standard and agreed form
• Information is knowledge of domination
• Each team member is obliged to store information, documents, data, drawings, recordings in
a central drive e.g., cloud-based
• Documents allow for comments and modification
• Modifications need to be authored e.g., track-changes mode
• Use templates wherever possible
• If possible, create a team website with in a private section of the organization’s website or in
an intranet
Guideline 9: Design a Central Knowledge Database
• Sharing learning experience is key
• Information capture
• Information transfer
• Knowledge building
• Information sources researched, found, consulted e.g., websites, articles
• Oblige team members to share their “knowledge pieces” in a central repository e.g., Evernote
• Provide incentives for sharing information
• Sanction when information is withheld
Guideline 10: Agree on a System for Performance Measurement
• Observing performance is not possible in virtual teams
• Each team members needs to understand how performance is measured and assessed
• Team members need to be encouraged to talk about accomplishments, challenges, especially
problems to facilitate monitoring progress
• Celebrate when tasks are finished early or in time (beware of culture-based expectations!)
• Oblige team members to assess why tasks overran – this is important for learning
Behavioral Competencies in Virtual Teams
Behavioral Competencies in Virtual Teams
Assessment Details
Assessment Topic:
You are tasked with building a new team for a global Digital Strategic Business Initiative for
your organization. Your team will be located in different geographic regions and members will
be from different functional domain (e.g., IT, customer support, marketing, sales). Because the
firm gives you the opportunity to build your team i.e., you can select the people you want on
your team.
Your boss asks you to write down for her how you plan to set-up and manage the team. You
prepare a written report for her (which is this written essay).
Assessment Guidelines:
Your boss wants you to cover the following aspects:
• How are you going to select the people for your virtual team? What kind of tools (if
any) will you use?
• What are some of the challenges to be expected from managing a virtual team? How
are you going to handle the challenges?
• How will you manage the productivity of the team? How do you plan to schedule
meetings and communication within the team?
• What are your own leadership principles and how will you get them to work out in
your role of manager of that virtual team?
Your organization practices good H/R management methods and you have access to a variety
of psychometric and competency testing tools. There are no budget constraints for you.
Purpose:
Successfully managing virtual teams requires managers to understand what some of the
challenges might be and having a good command of tools for managing people who they may
only see or hear through digital media. Also, success depends on team composition and
planification of communication, rules of conduct, and clear boundaries. These elements of
successful virtual teams can and should be planned before works of the virtual team
commences.
Links to module intended learning outcomes:
The assignment relates to the following intended learning outcomes for the module:
• Understand different team roles in volatile and complex virtual contexts
• Reflect on practical experience in virtual teams.
• Assess their own strengths and weaknesses in a team context as well as their
individual development needs
• Explain and synthesize the principles of collaboration in virtual teams themselves
• Construct the factors leading to the emergence of a leader in a virtual team in different
stages of virtual team development
Special Instructions:
Make sure you don’t miss the right entry point into the assessment. This is about you as the
benchmark so to speak, in building a virtual team. I want to see how you approach the task. So
don’t write “how managers should do this,” I want to see you planning the task (that mean
you should be writing in the first-person). One of the key theories in this module is that each
of us has leadership and design competencies and therefore each of us is suited to be a
manager – if, and this is the crux, we know our competencies and select team members based
on their complementary competencies to ours. Selecting team members based on similarity,
that’s not what counts in team building.
Primary Assessment Task Criteria:
Your written essay will be assessed based on the following criteria:
• The conclusiveness of your train of thought. 29%
• Your command of tools that help you set-up the virtual team. 20%
• Your understanding of what challenges you may encounter with your virtual team and
how you will handle them. 20%
• Professional Formatting and Harvard Referencing. 10%
Answer the Question:
It may seem obvious, but make sure you are answering the question you have been set, not the
question you would prefer to answer. If the brief has a number of tasks or parts, answer all of
them. Parts that involve evaluation or analysis are usually longer and worth more marks than
parts that ask for description or explanation. Keep the brief in front of you and check it
regularly.