Management of Virtual Project Teams: Guidelines for Team Leaders

Management of Virtual Project Teams: Guidelines for Team Leaders

This article offers a set of guidelines to assist project leaders when managing virtual project teams. The guidelines were developed as a result of a panel at the celebration of the 30 anniversary of the founding of the MIS department at the University of Arizona. These guidelines include recommendations for addressing challenges that occur over the virtual team project life cycle, including id...

An Analytic Model for Organization Readiness of Engineering Project Management Based on Virtual Teams

 The Organization Readiness of Engineering Project Management Based on Virtual Teams has been analyzed in an Iranian Engineering firm. Adapting and analyzing the latest readiness model, experts’ opinions were received by questionnaires and main criteria of the readiness have been identified. The considered readiness criteria are: Infrastructure, Deliverables (Drawings, Reports, Minutes of Meeti...

Teamxchange: a Team Project Experience Involving Virtual Teams and Fluid Team Membership

How Team Leaders Can Use ICT to Improve Trust Among Virtual Teams to Increase Collaboration?

This article makes recommendations to help team leaders effectively use ICT channels to develop and improve trust within their distributed virtual teams which will allow achieving a more effective team collaboration. Based on thorough review of the literature and content analysis, we have identified 29 factors for trust-building in this environment based on Cognitive Trust and seven factors bas...

E-ethical leadership for virtual project teams

This paper presents a review of current literature on ethical theories as they relate to ethical leadership in the virtual business environment (e-ethics) and virtual project leadership. Ethical theories are reviewed in relation to virtual project management, such as participative management, Theory Y, and its relationship to utilitarianism; Kantian ethics, motivation, and trust; communitarian ...