Download or read book Leadership Emergence in Virtual Team Environments written by Maryam Alavi and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper reports an exploratory field study examining leadership emergence in a virtual team environment. Traditional models of leadership emergence have identified task-related contribution, speaking behavior, and powerorientation as key predictors of leadership emergence in face-to-face environments. In the proposed model ofleadership emergence in virtual team environments, we argued that an individual2s skill in using electroniccommunication technology and the use of the technology would become important predictors of leadershipemergence, while the role of speaking behavior in predicting leadership emergence would be diminishing in virtualteam environments. The proposed model was tested using a data set collected from twenty-eight virtual teamsworking over a period of ten weeks. Our data support the proposed model of leadership emergence in virtual teamenvironments. Implications for future research in leadership emergence and practice are provided.

Download or read book Managing Virtual Teams written by Silvester Ivanaj and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book Managing Virtual Teams, explores the critical elements that must be considered in managing virtual teams in organizations – from structural, managerial, and process points-of-view. Based in solid research, the book provides a deep look at the nature of virtual teams and the factors that enable their success. It lays out in clear detail the key characteristics of virtual teams and traces their emergence within organizations and the research literature. It makes a valuable contribution with clear guidelines for managerial practice - both to researchers interested in learning about virtual teams and to managers and organizations dealing with the challenges of managing virtual teams.

Download or read book Virtual Teams That Work written by Cristina B. Gibson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-03-21 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtual Teams That Work offers a much-needed, comprehensive guidebook for business leaders and managers who want to create the organizational conditions that will help virtual teams thrive. Each chapter in this important book focuses on best practices and includes case studies and illustrative examples from a wide variety of companies, including British Petroleum, Lucent Technologies, Ramtech, SoftCo, and Whirlpool Corporation. These real-life examples demonstrate how the principles identified in the book play out within virtual teams. Virtual Teams That Work shows how organizations can put in place the structure to help team members who speak different languages and have different cultural values develop effective ways of communicating when there is little opportunity for the members to meet face-to-face. The authors also reveal how organizations can implement performance management and reward systems that will motivate team members to cooperate across multiple boundaries. And they offer the information to determine which technologies best fit a variety of virtual-team tasks and the level of information technology support needed.

Download or read book Shared Leadership written by Craig L Pearce and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2002-12-20 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Shared Leadership offers a much-needed shift in our thinking about how leadership happens in teams and organizations. Pearce and Conger have brought together a diverse group of authors who collectively offer a comprehensive view of developing, implementing, and studying shared leadership in organizations. This volume is sure to fulfill its goal of "jump-starting" our knowledge of the shared leadership phenomenon." --Cynthia D. McCauley, Ph.D., Vice President, Leadership Development, Center for Creative Leadership "How leadership is shared in teams and organizations is an important subject, but one that has received little attention in most of the leadership literature. This timely book provides a rich and varied perspective on the subject. The highly qualified collection of scholars provide a good theoretical foundation to guide the future study of shared leadership." --Gary Yukl, State University of New York at Albany "The time is as ripe as ever for a new paradigm of leadership that the authors simply call ′shared leadership.′ This timely volume effectively ′jumpstarts′ our knowledge of this emerging field by presenting a number of critical perspectives examining shared leadership using conceptual, empirical, and applied lenses." --Joe Raelin, Asa. S. Knowles Chair of Practice-Oriented Education, Northeastern University, and author of Creating Leaderful Organizations: How to Bring Out Leadership in Everyone "This volume redefines the essence of leadership. Pearce and Conger have assembled a cast of ′scholar-entrepreneurs′ whose pioneering work firmly establishes the theoretical foundations for the study of leadership now and well into the future. This book is a must read for anyone interested in leadership in the age of teamwork." --Henry P. Sims, University of Maryland In recent years, scholars have argued that leadership is an activity shared or distributed among members of a group or organization. This line of thinking is gaining attention among leadership scholars, yet our understanding of the dynamics and opportunities for shared leadership is still quite primitive. Given the infancy of the field, it is timely to introduce a volume on the subject that significantly enhances our knowledge.Shared Leadership: Reframing the Hows and Whys of Leadership brings together the foremost thinkers on the subject and is the first book of its kind to address the conceptual, methodological, and practical issues for shared leadership. Its aim is to advance understanding along many dimensions of the shared leadership phenomenon: its dynamics, moderators, appropriate settings, facilitating factors, contingencies, measurement, practice implications, and directions for the future. The volume provides a realistic and practical discussion of the benefits, as well as the risks and problems, associated with shared leadership. It will serve as an indispensable guide for researchers and practicing managers in identifying where and when shared leadership may be appropriate for organizations and teams. Edited by leading authorities Craig L. Pearce and Jay A. Conger, with contributions from the top experts in the field, Shared Leadership is an ideal text for management, education, and communication courses in leadership, teamwork, organizational behavior, and small groups. In addition, practicing consultants will find this an invaluable reference in their leadership and team development programs.

Download or read book Virtual Team Leadership and Collaborative Engineering Advancements Contemporary Issues and Implications written by Kock, Ned and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2009-02-28 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses a range of e-collaboration topics, with emphasis on virtual team leadership and collaborative engineering. Presents a blend of conceptual, theoretical, and applied chapters.

Download or read book A Multi level Investigation of Emergent Leadership and Dispersion Effects in Virtual Teams written by Steven Daniel Charlier and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the individual level, the model provides a theoretical linkage between communication behaviors and several outcomes, including team member perceptions/attributions and, ultimately, emergent leadership. At the team level, the model also incorporates the effect of leadership pattern differences across teams, as well as differences in level of virtuality, on overall team performance. Based on the results of an experiment involving 86 four-person teams, it was found that configuration and collocation have significant effects on team performance and peer perceptions of individual team members. A curvilinear relationship was found between the level of dispersion among team members and team performance, such that performance generally decreased as team dispersion increased, yet performance improved at the high end of the dispersion continuum. Collocation also had strong positive effects on perceptions of trust, ability, and leadership emergence. In terms of the relationships between communication-related behaviors and emergent leadership, task-based communications proved to be the strongest predictor of emergent leadership. The use of texting language was positively associated with perceptions of leadership emergence as well. These results have significant practical implications for the design of virtual teams from both a team configuration and a team member skills/individual differences perspective. Several avenues of future research are also discussed.

Download or read book A Manager s Guide to Virtual Teams written by Yael Zofi and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yael Zofi’s proprietary Trust Wheel model is a proven solution to the unique challenges managers must overcome as more people migrate to partially or fully-remote working situations. Based on the author’s twenty-plus years of consulting experience, this powerful tool encourages cohesiveness and engagement among team members--even if they’ve never met. A Manager’s Guide to Virtual Teams does this by providing a practical road map for bridging the physical distance among coworkers, incorporating self-study exercises and simple, fun activities that develop trust and ensure your team’s success. The book explores the most critical elements to success for a team founded in trust, including: accountability, communication, conflict management, and deliverables. Complete with examples, case scenarios, and strategies to help you navigate even your biggest hurdles, A Manager’s Guide to Virtual Teams will help your disparate collection of people get their work “out the door” faster and better.

Download or read book Behavior Trust and Leader Emergence in Virtual Teams written by Ming Huang and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Handbook of High Performance Virtual Teams written by Jill Nemiro and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-06-10 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of High-Performance Virtual Teams is an essential resource for leaders, virtual team members, and work group leaders. The editors provide a proved framework based on five principles for working collaboratively across boundaries of time, space, and culture. Written by experts in the field, the contributors offer practical suggestions and tools for virtual team who need to assess their current level of effectiveness and develop strategies for improvement. This important resource also contains an array of illustrative cases as well as practical tools for designing, implementing, and maintaining effective virtual work.

Download or read book Virtual Team Leader Emergence written by Chris Ferbrache and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ferbrache provides a much needed analysis of the growing area of virtual team leader emergence. By designing an objective model, Ferbrache has created the first means to objectively measure leadership in virtual teams. He also provides evidence of the possible benefit of the delegation by default theory thought to be related to poor performance. The results of this study prove to be useful for anyone seeking to improve virtual team productivity and goal completion.

Download or read book 101 Leadership Actions for Creating and Managing Virtual Teams written by Ollie Malone and published by Human Resource Development. This book was released on 2004 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 101 actions will help you manage, lead, or participate in a virtual team; whatever your role you will gain ideas, practices, and suggestions that will enable you to be more successful. From strategy and structure to technology and systems, it's all here!

Download or read book Mastering Virtual Teams written by Deborah L. Duarte and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-02-02 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third edition of the best-selling resource Mastering Virtual Teams offers a toolkit for leaders and members of virtual teams. The revised and expanded edition includes a CD-ROM with useful resources that allow virtual teams to access and use the book's checklists, assessments, and other practical tools quickly and easily. Deborah L. Durate and Nancy Tennant Snyder include updated guidelines, strategies, and best practices for working effectively with virtual teams across time and distance to see a project through. The useful tools, exercises, and real-life examples show how anyone can master the unique dynamics of virtual team participation in an environment where the old rules no longer apply.

Download or read book Virtual Team Success written by Richard Lepsinger and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-09-09 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today’s complex organizations it is not uncommon to have as many as 50 percent of employees working on virtual teams. As the “virtual revolution” continues to spread, how can companies ensure that virtual team collaboration is producing the desired results? Highly practical and easy to navigate, Virtual Team Success leverages the authors’ robust global research study and hands-on experience to provide an immediately usable resource for virtual team members and team leaders. This groundbreaking book is a hands-on, practical toolkit filled with down-to-earth examples and insights that can enhance the virtual team experience for everyone involved. The authors’ research study is one of the most comprehensive applied studies ever conducted on virtual teams, and all of the recommendations outlined are based on these findings as well as the authors’ years of experience helping virtual teams and virtual team leaders effectively lead and collaborate from a distance. To help organizations and leaders enhance virtual team performance, the book includes: Why Virtual Teams Fail—outlines the four pitfalls that frequently derail virtual teams Profile of High Performing Teams—addresses the characteristics of the most effective virtual teams and what makes them successful Virtual Team Launch Kit—provides practical guidelines and tools for successfully launching virtual teams How to RAMP Up Your Team’s Effectiveness—introduces a practical research-based model of virtual team effectiveness to improve team performance Profile of Top Performing Virtual Team Leaders—identifies the practices of the most successful virtual team leaders Facilitating High-Impact Virtual Meetings—includes tips and techniques to effectively lead “v-meetings” Virtual Team Success also includes practical resources for virtual team leaders, quick reference guides for diagnosing virtual team problems, and six lessons for virtual team success.

Download or read book Antecedents of Leadership Emergence in Virtual Teams written by Stephen O. Attar and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Technology and Employee Behavior written by Richard N. Landers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 1435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experts from across all industrial-organizational (IO) psychology describe how increasingly rapid technological change has affected the field. In each chapter, authors describe how this has altered the meaning of IO research within a particular subdomain and what steps must be taken to avoid IO research from becoming obsolete. This Handbook presents a forward-looking review of IO psychology's understanding of both workplace technology and how technology is used in IO research methods. Using interdisciplinary perspectives to further this understanding and serving as a focal text from which this research will grow, it tackles three main questions facing the field. First, how has technology affected IO psychological theory and practice to date? Second, given the current trends in both research and practice, could IO psychological theories be rendered obsolete? Third, what are the highest priorities for both research and practice to ensure IO psychology remains appropriately engaged with technology moving forward?

Download or read book The Manager s Pocket Guide to Virtual Teams written by Richard Bellingham and published by Human Resource Development. This book was released on 2001 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is full of new ways to overcome the barriers created when people work in different locations: How to create a forum for idea-sharing, solve problems among people from multiple functions, keep everyone in the "virtual loop," prevent things from slipping through the cracks, keep members up-to-date on changes and decisions, and much more.

Download or read book Managing Virtual Teams written by Joai Heitor Santos and published by . This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization and advances in technology have given ways to the emergence of virtual teams. Virtual teams are those teams in which the members are interacting in an online environment, while being located in different geographic locations and coming, usually, from different cultural background. Managing a team with such complexities involves lot of efforts and dedication. A manager who has shifted from a traditional team where people work under the same roof, to a virtual team, finds it difficult to manage the team. To manage a virtual team, it is not just the responsibility of the manager, but also the team members, who are equally responsible to manage and nurture it. This book helps the reader to get a grasp of virtual teams and their management, along with the challenges and strategies involved in team management. To be specific, the book helps readers understand the changes that occur in the middle of the project. Managing the changes in a virtual team demands the involvement of the team members and facilitators to overcome the hurdles. This book covers a wide range of prospects from managing virtual teams, and overcoming the challenges faced while managing such complex teams. Chapter 1 of this book gives us a brief description about what exactly virtual teams are and how they are different from the traditional teams. In this chapter, we come across and discuss situations and challenges which are responsible for the instability of such teams. Chapter 2 sheds light on the development of the team and the importance of developing a virtual team. Chapter 3 provides an insight on the methods which are required to establish effective communication and collaboration within the team. Effective communication acts as a binding tool for the virtual team members. Effective communication and collaboration are the most important factors in managing virtual teams, due to the fact that the team members are not physically connected to each other. Chapter 4 and 5 delivers the full review of leadership management, and towards the later part, it leads to conflict management in the team. It also discusses about the processes involved in forming and manage these teams effectively. It is important to understand that, while managing these teams and establishing effective communication within the teams, many challenges are encountered by leaders as well as by team members. In chapter 6, all such challenges have been discussed with appropriate solutions to handle those challenges. Along the same line, chapter 7 delivers the steps involved in managing the changes, which occur in the middle of the virtual project. Following the changes, the most important factor in managing the virtual team is conducting the meetings for team members sitting in virtual, scattered locations. For discussion on those virtual meetings, chapter 8 has been framed to highlight the tools involve in facilitating the virtual meetings. After following the set procedures, protocols and management guidelines, the most important factor in managing the virtual teams is, evaluation of success. It is essential to evaluate the progress report of the team members, so that the leader or the manager is able to understand the loopholes prevailing in the team, and is able to tackle them on time without delaying the project. For evaluation purposes, chapter 9, explains the dynamic role of metrics in a virtual team and also the role of technical tools which help in analysing and evaluating the success rate of the project.A separate chapter on case studies is also included, to give an idea about how various organizations manage virtual teams and what kind of strategies are adopted to maximize the performance of the members in a virtual team environment. This book intends to teach and guide readers on how the emergence of virtual teams has changed the working style of the corporate sector. This book helps us to understand the ambiguity and complexities associated with virtual teams and what are the key parameters that are critical to managing a virtual team in the most efficient way. The book lends us the opportunity to deal with all the challenges which might prevail in a virtual team environment.