Teamwork in virtual world - impact of “virtual team” on team dynamic

Abstract

Teamwork has long been recognized of its fundamental importance to the operations and success of professional organizations. With the recent development in information and communication technology, the organization structure and operation frameworks for teamwork also evolve. The resultant emergence of “virtual team” has become a significant adaptation of teamwork in today’s digital global society. In this paper, we describe our research design for one of the first studies in the impacts of “virtual team” on several important factors of team dynamics and team leaderships, compared to those in traditional teamwork in physical proximity. We also present our preliminary results about the impacts of “virtual team” on team creativity and team member psychological safety.