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Show moreWho should read this article and why: Managers, human resource professionals, researchers and anyone else who is interested in determining the critical elements of determining virtual team performance.
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Show moreThis paper explores the importance of a team's communication pattern in determining the amount ofcreativity possible, as well as addressing how creativity can be managed through the effective design and management of virtuality.
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Show moreGlobal managers, managers overseeing employees in remote locations or anyone in the organization responsible for building teams or who will be participating on a virtual team should read this article. It provides clear advice to team members concerning how to choose media between face-to-face meetings, identifying the important decision criteria.
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Show moreThis paper reports a study investigating whether burnout is contagious. Burnout, previously believed through empirical findings to demonstrate a contagion effect among health service professionals, has been quantitatively analyzed across 12 different European countries to validate that burnout is consciously and unconsciously communicated from one nurse to another.
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Show moreGVTs are commonly assigned the most critical organizational tasks, such as developing and launching new global products, negotiating and managing cross-border acquisitions, mergers, and alliances, and coordinating global account management programs (Maznevski & Chudoba, 2000). As GVTs are viewed by many practitioners and researchers as the nuclei of 21st century organizations (McDonough, Kahn, & Barczak, 2001), their increasing use presents a major challenge to the human resource management (HRM), particularly in terms of staffing (Pauleen, 2002).
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Show moreManagers or leaders responsible for leveraging teams that are geographically and/or organizationally dispersed and that are assembled using a combination of telecommunication and information technologies to accomplish a variety of critical tasks. The importance of this research to understand and classify virtual teams and expose a three dimensional model that defines level of virtuality based in how much use the team relies on virtual tools, synchronicity and informational value.
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Show moreAnyone dealing with the functioning of teams in high stress environments would be advised to read this article, particularly those for which effective team performance under stress is critical, such as military or emergency personnel.
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Show moreWith the development of new technologies, and particularly information communication technologies (ICTs), teams have evolved to encompass new forms of interaction and collaboration. By focusing on the communicative dimensions of global virtual teams, this paper demonstrates that e-collaboration is more than a technological substitution for traditional face-to-face collaboration.
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Show moreThe virtual organization as a viable model for the transnational company, the role of information technology in the virtual transnational and how specific technologies contribute to satisfying the criteria for effective global competition.
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Show moreAs organization’s strategies move toward a global scale, the type and/or structure of new product development teams have an important effect on performance and project outcomes.
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Show moreThis paper explores interwoven situational awareness, dense social networks, and contested collaboration in a command and control environment and relates the results back to other dynamic work contexts including design development teams.
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Show moreThere is in available literature a quite impressive list of gains from turning traditional disadvantages such as time zone differences, and geographical dispersion into competitive advantages.
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Show moreAs it becomes possible for more work to be done outside the traditional office, trust will become more important to these virtual organizations. What are the keys for managers to be successful managing these virtual organizations?
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Show moreMembers in Information Technology” (2006) is appropriate to add to this paper. Digging under the root cause of stress, is the stress of the perceived trust or mistrust of information shared. Accountability is the primary motivator to share knowledge. According to Braum, “Being accountable to self affects intrinsic motivation and accountability to others affects extrinsic motivation”. Braum continues, “When an individual has a well-developed sense of self-accountability, that are honest with themselves, and are answerable and responsible for what they say and do, void of any influence from others”. In a utopia, everyone is agreeable and always will get to “Yes”. Fisher and Ury’s book, “Getting to Yes” is admirable work and will also be used as a reference in this paper. The ultimate goal is to decrease paranoia, decrease stress, increase accountability, increase “yes” instead of “no”
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Show moreThis paper is a benchmark work that identified a new source of intragroup conflict caused by the “means” in solving team tasks and proposed dimensions for all three types of conflicts.
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