Top managers of India Design Center using 360-degree feedback to develop their competence team. Now, three new managers are going to join their management team, and Ashok Kumar, director of the center, have to decide how to integrate the new managers in a way that is gaining credibility and team camaraderie. Describes the work of managers, including engineering, human resources and finance functions to allow diagnosis, how managers can benefit from working together as a team. In addition, notes the challenges faced by these managers as they work with their superiors and colleagues at the company's headquarters in California, which is 13.5 time zones away. The team is one that could conceivably get more cross-functional communication and coordination in respect of their collective relations with its headquarters in California. "Hide
by Jeffrey T. Polzer, Liz Kind Source: Harvard Business School 20 pages. Publication Date: February 2, 2004. Prod. #: 404102-PDF-ENG
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