Work Together...When Apart Challenges and What is Need for Effective Virtual Teams

R. R. Raval
C. U. Shah College Of Engineering and Technology

Nader Ale Ebrahim
University of Malaya - Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, Faculty of Engineering

Shamsuddin Ahmed
University of Malaya (UM)

Zahari Taha
University of Malaya (UM)



Journal of Information, Knowledge and Research in Business Management and Administration, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1-3, October 2010

Abstract:
Increasingly competitive global markets and accelerating technological changes have increased the need for people to contact via electronic medium to have daily updates, the people those who could not able to meet face to face every day. Those who contact via electronic medium i.e. Virtual Team, are having number of benefit but to achieve these potential benefits, however, leaders need to overcome liabilities inherent in the lack of direct contact among team members and managers. Team members may not naturally know how to interact effectively across space and time. By this paper author try to throw some lights on the challenges that virtual team faces and try to elaborate what is needed for Virtual Team.

Keywords: Team, Virtual Team

SSRN-Work Together...When Apart Challenges and What is Need for Effective Virtual Teams by R. R. Raval, Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Zahari Taha