Trust and Leadership in Virtual Teamwork: A Media Naturalness Perspective

Human Resource Management Journal

Darleen M. DeRosa, Donald A. Hantula, Ned Kock, and John D'Arcy

Paradoxically, virtual teams are ubiquitous and often successful, contrary to most current communication theories' predictions. Media naturalness theory (Kock, 2001), an evolutionary perspective on communication and its principles of media naturalness, innate schema similarity, and learned schema diversity can be used to understand, study, and manage successful virtual teamwork. In particular, potential problems of trust and leadership in virtual teams are shown to be amenable to solutions rooted explicitly in an evolutionary context. From a media naturalness perspective, geographic distance and technological complexity are secondary to processes of adaptation, as humans remain the most complex and flexible part of the communication system.

(c) 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Virtual Teams - Achieving Project Management Success Using Virtual Teams

Bought a new book, Achieving Project Management Success Using Virtual Teams, By Dr. Parviz Rad and Dr. Ginger Levin last night. I will let you know how good it is. I hope it helps with my dissertation.

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Welcome to Virtual Project Dynamics. I am a Doctoral student at The George Washington University. The purpose of this blog is to document progress on my doctoral dissertation, Dynamics of Human Resource Management in Virtual Software Project Teams, and meet like-minded individuals in the process. Please feel free to contact me with any ideas.

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