The Impact of Team Leadership in Virtual Environment on Team''s Development and Effectiveness

• Main Authors: Tsung-wei Cheng, 鄭宗威
• Other Authors: Hsin - Hui Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/52701847860827822678

碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 資訊管理學系研究所 === 94 === Under the impact of the trend of globalization, enterprises face a more complicated and competitive external business environment than before. For the reason, the organization has to find out a business model which can react to any change in the environment and the market and which can reduce cost and establish a humungous niche. In such a background, an advanced information technology and an Internet communication application conjoin with the organizational demand; therefore, Virtual Team, a new type of teamwork system, is brought forth. Whether a team is virtual or traditional, it doubtlessly consists of people; however, without mutual-cooperation, the group cannot work efficiently and is arduous to accomplish a target. Apparently, there are various factors influencing the efficiency of a team. Among them, the most critical factors are leadership and team process. This study is to discuss what types of leadership should adopt to make their members cohere and then to be a competent company. The questionnaire of Virtual Team was sampled from the groups related to Information. Firstly, the author referred to the related documents to find out the factors connected to leadership versus a team, and then interviewed six managers experienced at Virtual Team to distinguish the relationships from factors. The author, furthermore, built a research framework and analyzed it in Partial Least Square. The result demonstrates that an increase on the members’ participation and humanistic leadership make positive impacts on the team process of Virtual Team including communication & interaction, cooperation and conflict reconciliation. The team process, moreover, is the critical factor to affecting team efficiency.