Virtuality Advantages And Disadvantages

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Primarily, this paper began to provide team and virtual team definitions and to emphasize the relevance of integrating the virtuality variable in present and future research about teams. Moreover, the team effectiveness topic was explored as well as its evolution throughout time. The team effectiveness models that are considered the greatest influencers among this field were presented, as well as the team processes proposed by Marks et al., (2001). Those team processes contribute to making a link to functional leadership theory, which is the central leadership theory studied in this research. The culmination of these three concepts leads us to a hypothetical triangle composed of virtuality, functional leadership and team effectiveness variables …show more content…

Consequently, the provided results inevitably lead to the conclusion that relatively amount of communication mediated by technology does not have a significant impact on the leadership functions towards team performance in the consultancy business. Nevertheless, this study theoretically incites the idea that virtuality might not only have a considerable impact on strong established relations like leadership and team performance, but it can also have some influence on several other team processes if one considers the presented disadvantages of virtual teams comparing with FtF teams. For this reason, and despite the lack of empirical support regarding the impact of virtuality on functional leadership and team effectiveness link, we logically still have great consideration for the theoretical studies carried by great scholars who imply …show more content…

A full application of Morgeson et al., (2010) Team Leadership Questionnaire is also recommended. For more complete and complex investigations, it would be interesting to understand which leadership functions proposed by the stated authors are more relevant to reinforce within a virtual team. A detailed vision over each function can help us to predict the most important behaviours within the virtual context, as Sivunen (2006b) already provided some of them.
To summarize, this study, with all its limitations, contributed to an empirical reinforcement between functional leadership and team effectiveness relationship, adding more certainty to this leadership model. Regarding virtuality influence, no significant effect was detected but it still instigates some provocative and mindful insights for further

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