What is Virtual Teams

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Groups of individuals working in a professional or academic setting set out to achieve comma goals or completion of a project. Communicating is not face-to-face but occurs via electronic format. Learn more in: Leading Across Generations: Issues for Higher Education Administrators

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Virtual teams predominantly make use of digital technologies for the purposes of communication. Usually the members of virtual teams are separated geographically but teams in which members are co-located may be also be considered to have a virtual dimension since they also increasingly rely on digital communications technologies. The defining characteristic of virtual teams is decrease in physical face-to-face interaction in favor of communications technologies. Learn more in: Leadership Learning through Virtual Play

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Teams of people that use electronic communications media for all or most of their communication regarding a common task. Learn more in: Situational Synchronicity for Decision Support

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Teams of workers consisting of members in remote locations who work together primarily through computer-mediated communication ( Robey et al., 2000 , p. 51). Learn more in: An International Virtual Office Communication Plan

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Team members that are geographically dispersed who collaborate virtually with each other for a common goal. Learn more in: The Pedagogical Considerations in the Design of Virtual Worlds for Organization Learning

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Collaboration amongst virtual employees that use various forms of technology to communicate and share knowledge to complete a task in a timely manner. Learn more in: Technological Tools to Enhance Workplace Learning among Virtual Team Members

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Defined as groups that have “gone digital” in order to function as a team. Learn more in: E-HRM as a Reality in Virtual World

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A group of two or more people who work for a common goal in different geographic locations and sometimes even organizations and time zones through the use of electronic communication. Learn more in: Concept Maps as a Tool for Promoting Online Collaborative Learning in Virtual Teams with Pre-Service Teachers

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Distanced form of teaming, commonly occurring by use of web-based platforms. Learn more in: Minding the Competency Gap From College to Career: The Value of Virtual Teaming and VLEs for Skill Development

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Members who share a common purpose or end goal while working inter-dependently and separated by distance, time, culture, and organizational boundaries. Learn more in: Use of Technology With Problem-Based Learning in Higher Education

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Groups of individuals working in a professional or academic setting set out to achieve comma goals or completion of a project. Communicating is not face-to-face but occurs via electronic format. Learn more in: Communicating across the Generations: Implications for Higher Education Leadership

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are teams of individuals who have a moderate level of physical proximity and are culturally similar, e.g. team members who are in the same building but on different floors. Learn more in: Communication in Construction Design Teams: Moving into the Virtual World

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These are teams that are geographically distributed and communicate via computer-mediated communication systems (CMCS), and many times never or rarely meet face-to-face. Learn more in: Training Techniques for Developing Trust in Virtual Teams

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Virtual teams are groups of individuals collaborating in the execution of a specific project while geographically and often even temporally distributed. Working across these boundaries of time and space requires virtual teams to utilize modern computer-driven technologies. Learn more in: Orchestrating the Multi-Channel Character of Formal and Informal Communication in "Virtual Teams"

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Virtual project teams, by definition, are groups of people working together toward a common goal. Whether, they are called virtual or distributed, the team members are not co-located; they can reside in different cities, states or countries. Learn more in: Social Issues in IT Project Teams

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Groups of individuals working in a professional or academic setting set out to achieve comma goals or completion of a project. Communicating is not face-to-face but occurs via electronic format. Learn more in: Help Me Understand: Effectively Communicating Across Generations

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Teams whose members are dispersed (not necessarily global) and who communicate via technology to accomplish an organizational task. Learn more in: Leading for Team Adaptation in Global Virtual Teams

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Teams who primarily conduct their work through electronic media. Learn more in: Leading Virtual Teams

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These are teams that are geographically distributed and communicate via Internet communication technologies, and many times never or rarely meet face-to-face. Learn more in: Training to Improve Trust in Virtual Teams

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Virtual teams rely on interactive technology so members can work together when separated by physical distance (Gibson & Cohen, 2006 AU30: The in-text citation "Gibson & Cohen, 2006" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ). Learn more in: Collaborative Approach to Successful Virtual Team Leadership

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A team with a small group of people who work through computer communication technology for a specific purpose, normally without face-to-face meetings Learn more in: Evaluating Processes and Performance in Virtual Teams

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Teams of people who primarily interact electronically and who may meet face to face occasionally. Learn more in: Leadership Competency in Virtual Teams

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Groups of individuals working in a professional or academic setting set out to achieve comma goals or completion of a project. Communicating is not face-to-face but occurs via electronic format. Learn more in: Communicating across the Generations: Implications for Higher Education Leadership

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Groups of geographically and/or organizationally dispersed coworkers that are assembled using a combination of telecommunication and information technologies to accomplish an organizational task. (Townsend et al., 1998) Learn more in: GSS Research for E-Collaboration

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A group of individuals working for a common goal from different physical locations, who interact by means of electronic means of communication. Also known as remote teams. Learn more in: Cultural Awareness and Distance Communication: A Project-Based Intervention in Higher Education Environments

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Virtual teams can be defined as a group of people working towards similar goals who use information communication technology to interact and collaborate. Learn more in: Managing “Virtuality”: An Integrated Model for the Implementation and Management of Virtual Teams

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Virtual teams are work teams where a minimum of one team member is separated from other team members due to geographical time and distance. Learn more in: E-Collaboration in Organizations

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A team of employees working together from different remote locations. The majority of their collaboration occurs online. Learn more in: Distributed Work Environments: The Impact of Technology in the Workplace

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can be defined as groups of workers geographically, organizationally and/or time dispersed brought together by information technologies to accomplish one or more organization tasks. The degree of geographic dispersion within a virtual team can vary widely from having one member located in a different location than the rest of the team to having each member located in a different country. The term virtual team is a misnomer as although it makes reference to virtual reality and the concept of creating a virtual space that can be experienced it also suggests that the virtual team isn’t actually a team and as such can lead to a loss of performance. Learn more in: Virtual Enterprise Network Solutions and Monitoring as Support for Geographically Dispersed Business

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Virtual project teams, by definition, are groups of people working together toward a common goal. Whether, they are called virtual or distributed, the team members are not co-located; they can reside in different cities, states or countries. Learn more in: Social Issues in IT Project Teams

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A group of geographically dispersed individuals who work on a joint project or common task and communicate electronically. Learn more in: Developing Trust in Virtual Teams

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Teams brought together through technological teams, thus providing communication in different times and places. Learn more in: Technology Leverages a Community University Collaboration