Virtual teams: an exploratory study of the effect of leader behavior on team effectiveness

"This study sought to understand leader behaviors that make a difference in the virtual environment, with particular emphasis placed on contrasting transactional and transformational leadership behaviors. Nineteen virtual teams, consisting of a total of fifty-three students enrolled in distance...

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1. Verfasser: Cox, Leroy Rogers (VerfasserIn)
Format: Abschlussarbeit Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Ann Arbor, Mich. UMI 2006
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Zusammenfassung:"This study sought to understand leader behaviors that make a difference in the virtual environment, with particular emphasis placed on contrasting transactional and transformational leadership behaviors. Nineteen virtual teams, consisting of a total of fifty-three students enrolled in distance education classes at the University of Missouri - Rolla and the University of Colorado - Boulder completed a survey instrument that measured the leadership behaviors expressed by team leaders, as well as the groups' perceptions of team effectiveness (measured by group potency, task satisfaction, and performance.) Findings suggest that both transactional and transformational leadership behaviors are important to team effectiveness. Further, group potency and task satisfaction were not shown to moderate the relationship between leader behaviors and performance"--Abstract, leaf iii
Beschreibung:IX, 126 S. graf. Darst.