Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Leadership and Human Resource Management - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,7, University of Manchester, language: English, abstract: Nowadays global teams have become an integral part of this world through the increase in international business activities. Big corporate organisations create teams with people from different locations, cultural backgrounds, skills and knowledge to increase productivity. Because of the distance team members have to communicate virtually by e-mail, videoconference, phone or other media tools, which saves money and time. The diversity in a global team can enhance creativity to carry out challenging tasks. But to overcome the constraints, which come a long with global teams it is clear that people have to find an effective way to work in a global team. In the following Essay I will analyse the role of effort in global teams. First, I will discuss the influence of low effort on 4 constraints of global team working. My second point will be the effect of low effort on cultural problems team members face in a global team and finally, I will present my own evidence from the course work.