Virtual Teams That Work

Creating Conditions for Virtual Team Effectiveness.

Virtual teams are more complex than traditional work teams. Their members may often report to different managers from different functions, disciplines, or organizations, who use different criteria for performance evaluation. The things that go slightly awry in traditional teams can be disasters in virtual teams.

Practitioners trying to create and sustain effective virtual teams face unique questions. How do people who speak different languages and have different cultural values develop effective ways of sharing and codifying knowledge when there is little opportunity to meet face-to-face?

This book identifies the challenges that must be addressed and the best practices required to create the conditions for effective virtual teams. The success of virtual teams depends upon the capacity of organizations to transform themselves to support such teams.