This white paper was co-authored by Meena Dorr, Director of Corporate Relations for MBA@UNC, and Kip Kelly, Director of Marketing and Business Development at UNC Executive Development. In this paper, Meena and Kip explore the advantages, characteristics and challenges inherent in the virtual team concept, and they also propose three important steps for HR and talent management professionals to follow to ensure the success of virtual teams within their organizations.
This report has been commissioned from occupational psychologists
Pearn Kandola by Cisco Systems to examine the dynamics of virtual,
geographically-distributed teams and how the application of electronic
communications in the workplace could impact the effectiveness and
success of teams.
more and more companies are going virtual. The answer to long commutes, inner city traffic, tapping into creative minds in other geographies and combating global warming is: a 'work from home' policy.
R. Raval, N. Ale Ebrahim, S. Ahmed, and Z. Taha. Journal of Information, Knowledge and Research in Business Management and Administration, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1-3, October 2010, 1 (1):
1-3(2010)