Building virtual teams : trust, culture, and remote work / Catalina Dumitru.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dumitru, Catalina, 1986- author.

Series:

Routledge focus on business and management

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Virtual work teams--Psychological aspects.

Virtual work teams.

Virtual reality in management.

Social interaction.

Trust.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (74 p.) ill

Edition:

1st Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2021.

Summary:

"Exploring the practices developed by remote teams to maintain trust across cultures, this book offers both theoretical and practical resources to enable better working in challenging contexts of project work. The book emphasizes building trust between team members from a practice perspective, meaning patterns of collective, shared activities that are produced and reproduced within the virtual team with the purpose of developing team trust. The author explores the trust practices that members of remote project teams use to describe their relationships and interactions. Team trust practices are powerful organizational tools for members of remote cross-cultural teams, influencing team decision-making and facilitating team effectiveness. The book offers extensive descriptions of team practices that build and maintain trust in virtual teams in two different cultures: Germany and Singapore. This is a unique contribution as it offers case studies from project teams that were observed and interviewed during their work and provides readers an in-depth, contextual analysis of the trust practices that virtual project teams develop, which previous research has overlooked. The book will appeal to researchers and graduate students in MBA programs studying project management, human resource management, and strategic leadership. The book is also of direct interest to many practitioners, particularly management consultants and project managers of virtual, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary project teams"--

Contents:

<OL><LI>Introduction</LI><P>1.1 Research context and objectives</P><P>1.2 Organization of the book</P><P>1.3 Characteristics and challenges of remote teams</P><P>1.4 Development of remote teams</P><P><LI>Building and maintaining trust in remote teams </LI><P></P><P>2.1 Defining trust

interpersonal, team, and organizational trust</P><P>2.2 Integrative model of trust</P><P>2.3 Swift trust model</P><P>2.4 A novel approach: trust as a social practice </P><P>2.4.1 Practice theories in organizational research</P><P>2.4.2 A model of building and maintaining trust as a practice </P><P>2.5 Team case study: building and maintaining trust in a remote development team</P><P><LI>Trust and culture in remote project teams</LI><P></P><P>3.1 Defining culture

national, organizational, and team culture</P><P>3.2 Cultural dimensions theory </P><P>3.3 Trust practices and culture</P><P>3.4 Comparative case studies: trust practices in Germany and Singapore</P><P><LI>Discussion</LI><P></P></OL><BLOCKQUOTE><P>4.1 Research summary</P><P>4.2 Theoretical contribution</P><P>4.3 Practical implications</P><P>4.4 Conclusion </P></BLOCKQUOTE>

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9781000449907

1000449904

OCLC:

1259402183