Virtual Teams That Work: Creating Conditions for Virtual Team Effectiveness

by Cristina B. Gibson (Editor), Susan G. Cohen (Editor)

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.

464 pages, Hardcover

First published January 4, 2003

Reviews

[Randy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ok... it's dense writing. The book is 400 pages of academic papers and the author's summary surrounding them.There are 17 different papers about working in / or leading virtual teams. Nearly every one of us exists in some sort of a virtual "team" either an informal social one (Facebook) and/or a professional one (team members working off-site).

The way virtual affects teams is significant to all of us.

Granted, I read this for work, but it's applicable to nearly everything I do behind a computer no matter if it's personal or professional.