Many organizations are using virtual teams to meet the increasing time and quality expectations of contemporary marketplaces. While virtual teams present advantages for cost control, access to expertise, and serving markets, they also engender practical challenges as a result of the geographic and temporal distribution of members. Previous research has suggested several factors that are critica...

Teamwork contributes to a considerable improvement in quality and quantity of the ultimate outcome. Collaboration and alliance between team members bring a substantial progress for any business. However, it is imperative to acquire an appropriate team since many factors must be considered in this regard. Team size may represent the effectiveness of a team and it is of paramount importance to de...

Interest in the theory and practice of teams in organizations has grown dramatically in recent years as evidenced by studies such as LaFasto and Larson’s (2001) research with over 6,000 team members and leaders. While there have been explorations into what characterizes effective teams, very little has been done to demonstrate what leadership behaviors, both at the organizational level and at t...

Feedback is a cornerstone of human development. Not surprisingly, it plays vital role in team However, the literature examining specific feedback virtual effectiveness remains scattered. To improve our understanding teams, we identified 59 studies that examine how different characteristics (content, source, and level) impact effectiveness. Our findings suggest teams benefit particularly from (a...

A central concept in studies of teams is their performance.1 Some studies refer to team performance as the process of conducting teamwork and to team effectiveness as the teamwork’s outcome.2 Some studies also consider learning to be a team-performance indicator. For our purposes, performance is teamwork’s outcome, such as meeting project goals, budget, and schedule; the quality of the software...

This article reports an empirical study on effectiveness of software development teams. Itwas predicted thatboth the extent to whieh design methods are used and team leaders' goal orientation is related to team effectiveness. Follow-up data (6-12 months after first assessment) were available from 25 German and Swiss software development projeets. Hierarchical regression analysis showed that use...

The influence of teammates' shared mental models on team processes and performance was tested using 56 undergraduate dyads who "flew" a series of missions on a personal-computer-based flight-combat simulation. The authors both conceptually and empirically distinguished between teammates' task- and team-based mental models and indexed their convergence or "sharedness" using individually complete...