Communication management within virtual teams in global projects

dc.contributor.advisor	Taaffe, Paul	en
dc.contributor.author	Bilczynska Wojcik, Aneta	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-07-08T14:14:02Z
dc.date.available	2014-07-08T14:14:02Z
dc.date.issued	2014
dc.identifier.citation	Bilczynska Wojcik, A. (2014). Communication management within virtual teams in global projects. Masters Thesis, Dublin Business School.	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10788/1794
dc.description.abstract	The increasing global nature of IT projects and the virtual nature of project teams create numerous challenges for managers to effectively manage communication, and place a risk on project execution. But what exactly are these challenges? And how do Project Managers from IT organisation respond to these challenges? The aim of this dissertation will be to address these questions. In providing answers to these questions, we can then see to what extent current project management is effective in overcoming these challenges and to suggest recommendations for the cases in which management fails. This thesis includes qualitative research by providing a case-study of an Irish IT organisation that has a globally distributed work-force. The research focuses on the insights of Project Managers who each have a wealth of experience in dealing with the issues at hand. As a counterbalance, this study therefore includes observational research to objectively evaluate the day to day reality of virtual teams in global projects. However, even though a lot of communication management challenges are recognised by Project Managers, it seems that a clearly explicated communication plan is often lacking. To address this problem, this research attempts to synthesise the main strategies into a unified strategy. The major contribution from this research is to provide an in-depth theory about communication management within virtual teams in global projects. Author keywords: Communication, virtual team, management, global project	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Dublin Business School	en
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dc.subject	Business Communication	en
dc.subject	Project Management	en
dc.title	Communication management within virtual teams in global projects	en
dc.type	Thesis	en
dc.rights.holder	Copyright: The author	en
dc.type.degreename	MBA in Project Management	en
dc.type.degreelevel	MBA

Communication management within virtual teams in global projects