- Title
- Virtual working in teams : an exploratory survey of barriers
- Creator
- Hodgson, Shane Ralph Colin
- Subject
- Teams in the workplace, Virtual corporations, Virtual work teams
- Date
- 2012-09-12
- Type
- Thesis
- Identifier
- uj:10093
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10210/7478
- Description
- D.Phil., This exploratory study looks at the barriers to virtual working as experienced by members of global virtual teams in a major Information Technology company. The data were collected by means of an online survey, and were subjected to detailed analysis. The initial survey measured respondents' levels of agreement with statements in the areas of Trust, Communications, Conflict and Virtual Work Self-Efficacy, which had all been identified by earlier research and literature review. Data reduction of the responses revealed the emergence of several factors, including ones related to virtual work facility, conflict, communications and vicarious learning. The research uncovered interesting facts about the barriers that virtual workers perceive to working virtually, as well as their views on the effectiveness of virtual working and the need for physical contact with fellow workers. The study ends with interpretation of the emergent factors and their interrelationships, and with the significance of this for organisations wishing to implement virtual team working
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- Jannie Zaaiman
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