Articles on Virtual Teams

Virtual Team – Origin, Definition and its Scope

In today’s fast pace world, we all lead a virtual life parallel to an actual one. The regular live chats...

Virtual Teams vs Traditional Teams

In the current hypercompetitive and fast-paced times, many innovations become obsolete before they could leave RD labs and see the...

Virtual Teams – Myths and Realities

With an aim to leverage on the global talent, virtual teams are becoming the norm for team work in most...

Different Types of Virtual Teams

Many organizations turn to virtual teams to reduce operational costs, faster problem solving and innovate. Depending on the temporal distribution,...

Advantages and Disadvantages of Virtual Teams

Virtual team is an emerging new-age trend with followers across business sectors. Just like any other new trend, virtual team...

Reasons for Failure of Virtual Teams

Last year Bob Stuart was given the ‘Best Team Leader’ award because his team had delivered all the milestones accurately...

Degree of Virtuality in Virtual Teams

Most of the discussion about the virtual teams is centered around 100% virtual teams i.e. pure virtual team. Earlier only...

Role of Virtual Team Members

Global Virtual Team work structure is fast emerging as the workplace reality in networked organizations. Global virtual teams (GVT) are...

Four Dimensional Model of Virtual Teams

Virtual team is the new reality of 21st century workplace. Large number of HR practitioners as well as organizational leaders...

Critical Competencies of Virtual Team Members

Virtual team environment is characterized by uncertainty, fluid membership and task complexity. It is not easy for everyone to be...

Critical Success Factors for Virtual Teams

With more organizations realizing the higher ROI associated with the virtual work environment, virtual teams are scoring over traditional teams....

Leadership Essentials for Effectively Managing Virtual Teams

The global virtual teams are characterized by team members located in different geographies and time zones with information and communication...

Setting Up a Virtual Team

The early phase of development of a virtual team is crucial for its success. Just like the foundation defines the...

Knowledge Management in a Virtual Team

Knowledge Management is defined as the use of different practices and techniques to collect, store and share Knowledge including information,...

Managing Social Isolation in Virtual Teams

Virtual workplace is a new age reality of 21st century organizations. Though on one hand it offers flexibility and adaptability...

Training in Virtual Teams

In the face of the complex and unique virtual work environment, organizations are required to invest in the training and...

Advantages and Disadvantages of Working from Home and Organizational Policies

The Benefits of Working from Home: The Employees’ Perspective A typical challenge for working professionals, especially women, is to maintain...

Measuring Return on Investment (ROI) of Virtual Teams

Return on Investment is a popular analytical tool which is used to measure the benefits relative to the cost. There...

Performance Appraisal System for Virtual Teams

Performance appraisal is considered as a challenging task by many business managers. It becomes all the more daunting in case...

Rewards and Recognition System in Virtual Teams

In case of traditional co-located teams, pizza parties, lunch/dinner outings etc. are common approaches to celebrating team success while cash...

Managing Conflict in Virtual Teams

Conflict is an inevitable characteristic of all work teams. Considering the complex dynamics of virtual teams, understanding and managing conflict...

Politics in Virtual Workplace

Politics is an inevitable phenomenon faced by the employees in any workplace – virtual or collocated. The personal agenda of...

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Articles on Virtual Teams