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Leadership Competency in Virtual Teams

Leadership Competency in Virtual Teams

Deborah Petska, Zane Berge
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 8
ISBN13: 9781605661988|ISBN10: 1605661988|EISBN13: 9781605661995
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-198-8.ch190
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Petska, Deborah, and Zane Berge. "Leadership Competency in Virtual Teams." Encyclopedia of Distance Learning, Second Edition, edited by Patricia L. Rogers, et al., IGI Global, 2009, pp. 1330-1337. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-198-8.ch190

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Petska, D. & Berge, Z. (2009). Leadership Competency in Virtual Teams. In P. Rogers, G. Berg, J. Boettcher, C. Howard, L. Justice, & K. Schenk (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Distance Learning, Second Edition (pp. 1330-1337). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-198-8.ch190

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Petska, Deborah, and Zane Berge. "Leadership Competency in Virtual Teams." In Encyclopedia of Distance Learning, Second Edition, edited by Patricia L. Rogers, et al., 1330-1337. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2009. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-198-8.ch190

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Abstract

As organizations race to increase their global market share, traditional face-to-face teams are evolving into virtual teams. Aided by swift advances in communication technology, virtual teams allow organizations to pool the intellectual resources of geographically dispersed experts from multiple fields to achieve organizational goals and advance the corporate mission. Virtual teams benefit organizations by saving travel costs and time lost away from work. Although similar to traditional teams in many ways, the virtual team’s dispersed nature necessitates different leadership competencies, the use of multiple communication media, and more structure and guidelines (Stone & Thach, 1999). With a growing number of organizations now relying on virtual teams to perform work, there is also increased recognition that strong leadership is critical to the successful functioning of virtual teams. However, the additional component of technology used by virtual teams is sometimes overlooked when organizations develop their core competency models.

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