Hybrid Team Management Assignment Sample

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Slide 1- Introduction

• Business encounters with diverse trends
• Likewise, one of the latest management trend is “Hybrid team Management”
• It refers to managing a hybrid workplace where some employees work from office and some remotely
• This presentation shall discuss about this mentioned trend

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Business environment is evolving based on changing market trends and consumer pReferences. Likewise, organizational management witness diverse transition and changes. One of the latest trends that management has encountered is related to “Hybrid team Management”. It refers to managing a workplace model that integrates both working from office as well as remote employees (Dowling et al., 2022). Likewise, this presentation shall explore this latest trend and reflect various aspects of “Hybrid team management”.

Slide 2- Learning outcome

• Understanding the concept of Hybrid team Management
• Advantages and disadvantages of the trend
• Current implication and Future Prospect of the trend

This presentation shall help to understand the concept of hybrid working as well as managing a hybrid workforce. The rational of hybrid working and management could be understood. Furthermore, the benefits and drawbacks of this trend can be highlighted. This presentation shall also highlight the impact along with future trends of this trending management system.

Slide 3- Rationale

• this presentation shall help to comprehend the concept of hybrid team management
• Method of hybrid team management can be understood
• Its current impact along with future implication can be understood

Business environment has become competitive and organization that takes opportunity of latest trends is able to get competitive advantages. Hybrid working gives flexibility to employees and increases their productivity. However, managing hybrid workforce sometimes become struggling as employers face complexity to manage organizational employees and distant employees simultaneously (Hesketh and Cooper, 2023). Similarly, this presentation shall give a road map regarding hybrid team management.

Slide 4- Need of Hybrid work management

Various types of hybrid model-

• Flexible hybrid work model- employee select their space and schedule
• Office first hybrid work model- employee work from office and work remotely for some time
• Remote first hybrid work model- Employees work remotely and visit office space sometimes

Such diverse working model needs effective hybrid team management.

There are different types of hybrid work model-

Flexible hybrid work model- here employees select their location and working hours based on their priority. For example, when they need to focus on a project they can select a coffee shop or their home. On the other hand, if they need a sense of community and requirement to meet the team, they can do it in office.

Office First Hybrid work model- here employees are needed to be in office but they have flexibility to select some days per week to work remotely (Webex, 2023).

Remote first Hybrid Work model- here employees usually work remotely and visit few days per week visit to office for collaboration, training, team building and others (Webex, 2023).

However, for such diverse hybrid model it needs effective management.

Slide 5- New trend in management

• Hybrid work model gives employee autonomy to select their working area based on their suitability
• It sometimes becomes opportunity and some sometimes challenge for employers to manage hybrid team
• Hybrid team management helps in managing hybrid workforce and to engulf maximum productivity from employees.

Hybrid working model blends remote and in-house employees. It gives employees the autonomy to select the working mode where they are most productive. Hybrid team management helps in accurate employee handling where job satisfaction and productivity of the employees reaches its height. However, in managing such workforce employers face certain benefits as well as challenge. However, accurate Hybrid team management is helping in increasing organizational performance.

Slide 6- Details of hybrid work management

Accurate management includes fairness and inclusiveness to manage hybrid team. Managers need to guide and manage every employee fairly irrespectively of their working location.

Slide 7- Reason for the new management trend

• Emergence of Covid19 Pandemic and related lockdown norms
• Organizational operations needed to be continued maintaining physical distance
• It gradually gave rise to hybrid working model and hybrid team management

The Covid19 pandemic resulted in rapid spread of the corona virus. Likewise, government of every nation implemented norms of lockdown. It closed offices. However, as operations were needed to be continued thus, remote working mode emerged (Konda et al., 2020). Benefits of remote working gave rise of Hybrid working mode in post pandemic period. It needed Hybrid team management.

Slide 8- Reason of the new management trend (Continued)

• Greater demand among employees for flexible work in the post-pandemic era
• Office enjoyed reduced cost related to hybrid team
• Resulted in reducing energy consumption, pollution and others

Executives witnessed improvements in employee productivity due to flexibility related to hybrid working. Moreover, 74% of larger firms’ across the world mentioned that remote works reduced expense related to office space, employee maintenance, electricity and others. Another important fact is that Carbon dioxide emission reduced by 19% as remote working options reduced employee travelling reflecting sustainable outputs (Webex, 2023). Realizing the advantages of Hybrid working model, organizations started adopting the hybrid team management mode in the post-pandemic period.

Slide 9- Method of Hybrid team management

• Setting clear expectations as well as accountability- management need to understand importance of both remote and in-office working and set clear responsibilities and deadlines to every employee.
• Fairness- mangers need to give equal focus on every employee irrespective of their working mode. Managers shall solve query, communicate and behave equally to every employee.
• Communication- maintaining accurate and continuous communication either via face to face or via virtual mode is crucial. IT helps to build trust among employee and management (Stanford, 2023). Using communication software like Slack, Zoom and others are crucial to share files, communicate and others with remote team.
• Monitoring- performance of employees are needed to be monitored and constructive feedback shall be given.

Slide 10- Statistical data for Hybrid team Management

Reports reflect that around 42% of the global employees are thriving and flourishing for Hybrid work mode. It reflects that around half of the entire global workforce has positive feeling towards hybrid work mode. Such statistics reflects the reason of emergence of hybrid working and hybrid team management (Statista, 2021).

Slide 11- Statistical Data (Continued)

In 2023, 39% of employees in Great Britain works from home at least some days within a week and 73% of employees travel to work (Statista, 2023). It reflects the emergence of hybrid working and hybrid team management.

Slide 13- Statistical data (Continued)

It has been identified that companies faced reduced cost for supporting workplace environment with hybrid model. Likewise, around 66% of the global enterprises considered redesigning their office space to support hybrid model and put effort in hybrid team management (Statista, 2021).

Slide 13- Advantage related to hybrid team Management

• Reduces operational cost
• Increase employee productivity
• Gives opportunity to up skill

Reduce operational cost- with remote working, need of physical office space reduces that reduce cost related to rent, office supplies, cleaning, cost of employee meal or refreshment and others.

Increase employee productivity- Martin, (2022), interpreted a study of Stanford University and found that hybrid workers are 13% more productive as compared to traditional employees. Hybrid employees’ encounter less travelling time; they can take longer breaks while working remotely and so on. It increases their productivity. Thus, hybrid team management is beneficial for organizations.

Opportunity to up skill- 81% of employers and 91% of employees believe that working from home or in hybrid mode reduce travelling time and the time can be used to enhance their skills (Martin, 2022). Thus, hybrid team management shall results in higher esteem and higher performance of the employees.

Slide 14- Advantage (Continued)

• Access to wider talent pool
• Work life balance
• Promote mental well-being

Access to wider talent pool- hybrid model helps to hire talents from distant global location as they don’t need to travel. Thus, Hybrid team management results in integrating different cultures and knowledge bases.

Improve work life balance- LinkedIn survey confirmed that 86% of employees believe hybrid work helps to increase work life balance (Linkedin.com, 2023). It helps to address personal (such as looking after kids) as well as professional (such as handling projects) commitments.

Promoting mental well-being- Hybrid employees can spend time with their family and friends, focus on their health, get chance to indulge in self-care that helps to maintain a good mental health state. Thus, hybrid team management enhances employee’s well-being.

Slide 15- Disadvantage related to Hybrid team management

• Hybrid team management face issue in Collaboration
• There also persist Communication issue

Sudden involvement of hybrid teams after the Covid19 results in communication gap. Due to lack of prior training related to hybrid mode of working, communicating and collaborating becomes challenging for management. There comes issues related to not responding immediately. Tone of communication might convey different meaning. It results in confusion and so on.

Reference

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