INTRODUCTIONAn Overview of Virtual Teams

Walk into any office today and you know that things are not as they were a decade ago. If you engage employees in conversation, many of them will say that they are working on some projects with colleagues who do not work in the same building, the same city, or even the same country. Ask them if they have met these teammates and some employees may claim to have viewed pictures posted on the Internet, while others may describe introductions made during webcam meetings or a visit to a corporate off-site event.

Clearly our business landscape has changed.

The virtual team, VT for short, is a work arrangement in which a group of people share responsibility for goals that must be accomplished in the total, or ...

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