Quokka Electronics Has Research and Development Operations in Three Locations

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Essay

Quokka Electronics has research and development operations in three locations across Canada.The company is planning to develop a new microprocessor,which involves exploring previously untested ideas and applying methods that have a high degree of complexity.This project would require a dozen researchers and technicians with diverse skills and knowledge and whose individual work would be highly interdependent with each other.Under these conditions,would you recommend a virtual team or a conventional face-to-face team? Justify your choice.

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Definitions:

Short-Term Memory

The capacity for holding a small amount of information in mind in an active, readily available state for a short period of time.

George Miller

A psychologist best known for his theory on the limits of short-term memory, proposing that people can hold about 7 (plus or minus 2) items in their working memory.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

A German psychologist known for his pioneering work in the study of memory, including the discovery of the forgetting curve and the spacing effect.

Iconic Memory

A type of visual sensory memory that holds a brief photographic image for a few seconds after the exposure to the original stimulus.