Challenges and use of virtual tools in teamwork (original) (raw)

The significance and managerial challenges of virtual teamworking

Proceedings of the International Conference on Business Excellence

Living in a world where technology has evolved in an alarming pace, the working structures have become more diverse adapting to this trend, and giving birth to virtual teams, thanks to the ITC tools that have broken the physical boundaries, allowing coworkers to connect from all corners of the world and construct together. The aim of the article is to enrich the effectiveness of virtual teams but also acknowledge the difficulties they may run into throughout their project completions. Mixed methodology was chosen for the study case, having the Romanian Tourism Heritage Federation members as the sample of the survey. The quantitative method was used to quantify the data offered by the surveyed candidates and offer a deeper insight, by collecting data regarding certain aspects of the candidate such as: age, education and experience level, online “literacy”, size and role of the team member etc. and presented in a well-structured figure table. Whereas, the qualitative method concentrat...

Virtual Teamwork: A Product of Globalization Implications for University Education

With globalization, virtual teamwork is becoming the predominant type of labour organization within multinational companies. Empirical studies on this new form of teamwork show that besides requiring specific knowledge, this teamwork requires social skills, as well as media and methodological competencies. Through the Bologna-Process European universities received clear directions to prepare young professionals for the challenges of the future working life by focusing on extra-curricular activities and developing personal key competen-cies. Accordingly, this essay outlines how to prepare students to work in a virtual team environment by making fundamental reforms to university education. A key element of proposed reforms is the introduction of Collaborative Computer Supported Learning as the leading didactic principle, especially in postgraduate studies.

Virtual Working in Teams: An Exploratory Survey of Barriers

2002

Grateful thanks to the staff of the Rand Afrikaans University, especially Rita Kellerman (for talking me into this), Jannie Zaaiman (for supervising my dissertation) and Karel Stanz (for his dual roles as the project manager of the course and as a fellow student).

Virtual team-working and collaboration technologies

An introduction to work and organizational psychology – a European perspective, 2008

Due to the increasing decentralization and globalization, many organizations have introduced distributed groups and teams, often called “virtual teams.” Virtual teams are components of distributed organizations, whose members work apart for a joint goal and mainly communicate and collaborate via information and communication technologies (ICT). The key feature of “virtuality” is the use of ICT technologies to enable communication and collaboration, in addition to the geographical distance of employees and their workplaces from each other. By definition, in an entirely virtual organization, all the communication and collaboration takes place through collaboration technologies without meeting face to face. In practice, most distributed groups and teams are virtual to varying degrees. On the organizational level, many terms have been used to refer to this type of organization, such as a “virtual organization,” “a dispersed or distributed organization,” “a network organization,” and “a telework organization.”

Effective Virtual Teamwork Development in Higher Education: A Systematic Literature Review

Edulearn 2019, 2019

The evolution of technological growth and the globalized nature of today's world makes virtual teamwork as one of the building blocks of a successful organization. As a consequence, it rationale the importance of developing virtual teamwork in the higher education arena because it has been considered that future graduates are prepared through their higher education for their foreseeable professional life. Therefore, this paper presents a systematic review on developing virtual teamwork in the context of higher education in order to systematically synthesis and determine what is already know according to the state-of-the-knowledge and find out the gaps that need to focus in the academic domain. More specifically, this paper will present a state-of-the-art on the effective virtual teamwork development in the domain of education, higher education, or university-level education. The Web of Science database has been considered for carrying out this systematic review which is one of the most used and popular databases for conducting research on a particular field of interests. The findings of the reviewed literature show the necessity or importance of integrating virtual teamwork in higher education as well as discusses individual factor and leadership effects on the performance or effectiveness of virtual teamwork. However, there are not any studies that researched the development of effective virtual teamwork in higher education. The systematic literature review on this research subject, therefore, is the primary objective of this research work. document.