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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Virtual team"”.
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Diversity Team Building: Impact on Virtual Team Performance
… outcomes, lack of scholarly attention to team-level interventions remain. Team-level interventions would benefit organizations more directly as they address issues directly related to task accomplishment. Since diversity may lead to negative performance results for teams, a team building …
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Subjectivity and reflexivity in an 'exemplary' virtual team
This thesis discusses the findings of a 'virtual' ethnography of a 'virtual team' of teleworkers called 'FlexiTeam'. The concept of teleworking refers to workers who use Information and Communication Technologies to work flexibly in time and space. A 'virtual team' is a group of teleworkers …
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Design and Implementation of a Virtual Team Collaboration System
<p>This paper analyzes a newly developed virtual team collaboration site and compares this application with the currently in use team collaboration tool created using a Google site. Various tests that are essential for a web service to function properly are performed to compare the applications. …
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A Dyadic Composition to Foster Virtual Team Effectiveness: An Experimental Study
<p>The importance of effectiveness for virtual teamwork continues to gain momentum as technology and globalization of work accelerate. The implementation of virtual teams provides one approach to enhance competitiveness, overcoming the disadvantages of space and time differences through …
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Joint Effects of Communication Mode and Consensus on Virtual Team Decision Quality
… and processes for effective decision-making in virtual team environments. Specifically, this study sought to demonstrate that teams instructed in consensus produce higher quality decisions and attain the assembly effect (synergy) on complex decision tasks. In addition, teams in virtual …
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A Phenomenological Inquiry Into The Perceptions Of E-Leaders On Virtual Team Leadership
… environment, and many have implemented a virtual workforce to maintain their competitive advantage through maximizing productivity, reducing product time to market, and cost reduction. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to gain a deeper understanding of the …
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Expertise, trust, and virtual team performance : leveraging team composition for intelligent agent design
… have turned toward mechanisms for improving virtual team performance. One approach considers incorporating intelligent machine agents into teams of humans as a means of influencing behaviors, ultimately leading to better performance outcomes. Such agents would require a robust representation …
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Knowledge Sharing and Virtual Team Performance in Supply Chain Management: Challenges and Strategic Implications
… important for an organisation to ensure that its virtual teams can run smoothly and can complete organisational projects successfully and on time. Due to this change in working practices, the growth of virtual team usage in organisations expanded in an unprecedented fashion. Organisations were …
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Project knowledge management and brokering in virtual team-environments : application of best practices from modern e-learning management
… pertaining to project knowledge brokering in virtual team-envi¬ron¬ments. Paradoxically, virtual set-ups are increasingly used to facilitate the access, trans¬fer and application of knowledge that is dispersed and stuck globally within company-silos and social-networks. These temporary set-ups …
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Virtual Team Development Analysis and Optimization: Examination of a Change Process in an IT Company Based on Synergetics
In this study, a virtual team development process triggered by a change of management in a large-scale software company is analyzed. The object of study is a global virtual team in the product training area that was assigned a new manager. The team consists of five women who are based in three …
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Effect of emotional intelligence, collaboration technology, team climate, and intrinsic motivation on virtual team effectiveness: A study of team member perceptions
… has caused a paradigm shift from collocated teams working in the office 9–5 to virtual teams working anywhere, anytime. As such, there is a growing body of literature related to virtual teams; however, there is limited research specific to the relationship between virtual team effectiveness …
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The relationship between the perceived level of contribution of virtual team members and their energization source as described by Jung's typology
<p>The increasing use of virtual teams as a result of advances in technology has altered the manner in which team members communicate and interact (Holton, 2001). The media-rich faceto- face team environment has frequently given way to asynchronous communication, using tools such as emails and …
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Exploring the level of readiness and identifying Critical Success Factors (CSFs) for the successful adoption of the Virtual Team (VT) mode of work into the Omani Commercial Banking Sector (OCBS)
… and success of organisations in their markets. Virtual teams (VT) havea relatively short span of history in the research field. VT has been widely seen byinformation systems (IS) researchers as a promising mode of work that exploits theacknowledged readiness of the information and communication …
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The myth of spontaneous connection : an ethnographic study of the situated nature of virtual teamwork
… study of one multi-organizational virtual team in the automotive industry. Observing and interacting with the team members in their local work sites and in team meetings, I investigated the influence of virtual team members' situation in their respective local work contexts on the …
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Managing global virtual teams in the London FinTech industry
… the number of organisations that are adopting virtual working arrangements has exploded, and the London FinTech industry is no exception. During recent years, FinTech companies have increasingly developed virtual teams as a means of connecting and engaging geographically dispersed workers, …
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Virtual teams: The relationship between organizational support systems and effectiveness
… of eight organizational support systems on virtual team effectiveness in five areas: communication, planning tasks and setting goals, solving problems and making decisions, resolving conflict, and responding to customer requirements. One hundred and eighty surveys were sent to information …
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Human-AI Hybrids in Virtual Teams: The Effects of IT Identity and Trust on Knowledge Sharing and Knowledge Application
… execution, organizations increasingly rely on virtual teams for improved performance and competitive advantage. Organizations seek ways to increase virtual team efficiency and effectiveness through technology. Newer applications of artificial intelligence (AI) are driving organizational …
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Gender equality in virtual teams : comparison of gender equality in virtual teams and physical teams with regards to behavior- and performance-related factors
Even though virtual teams have recently gained more and more importance, there is still little research on how gender equality in virtual teams compares to physical teams. It is well-known, that important factors and challenges in virtual teams are different from those in physical teams. This …
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CreativeTeams : exploring the creative performance of co-located and virtual teams
… performance of traditional co-located and virtual teams. Motivation for this research is twofold. Firstly there is the reluctance shown by many organisations to adopt virtual working practises. Second, there is the gap in existing research ex- ploring how virtual teams collaborate …
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The Russian trumpet sonata: a study of selected representative sonatas for trumpet and piano with an historical overview of the Russian trumpet school
The impact of training on virtual team effectiveness was assessed in five areas: communication, planning tasks and setting goals, solving problems and making decisions, resolving conflict, and responding to customer requirements. A 12-page survey was developed exploring all aspects of virtual …
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