The Relationships between Leadership Behaviors Team Learning and Performance among the Virtual Teams

Talip Pinar,Hakan Kitapçi,Haluk Tanriverdi,Cemal Zehir

doi:10.5539/ibr.v7n5p68

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Abstract

Teams are in the mid of a renaissance. Particularly in today’s business environments, characterized by globalization, technological progress and intense competition, the virtual teams—as the work groups with members at different locations, using computer based communication and sharing inputs and other individual efforts through technology—are increasingly becoming prevalent. However there is still a gap in the literature concerning the performance and success of virtual teams. In this study, the interrelationships among leadership, team learning and team performance is theoretically and empirically investigated within the context of virtual teams. After a deep literature review a survey is conducted on 101 teams. The data is analyzed via PLS 3.0 statistical program. The path analyzes results show reveals the important role of leadership on team learning for virtual teams. Moreover the findings underline the vital role of team learning on team success and performance for virtual teams just like for the traditional teams.

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Virtual teams are currently having a small place in terms of operation science the rapid proliferation in the application (Badrinarayanan & Arnett, 2008, Prasad & Akhilesh, 2002; Ebrahim et al, 2009)
Despite the increasing popularity of virtual teams, it is seen that the empirical studies on virtual teams are not sufficient
This paper aims to unveil the mystery on success and performance determiner in virtual teams

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Virtual teams are currently having a small place in terms of operation science the rapid proliferation in the application (Badrinarayanan & Arnett, 2008, Prasad & Akhilesh, 2002; Ebrahim et al, 2009). When the differences between the time and place concepts are taken into account, it is been accepted that they have a close relationship with the performance of these teams. Leaders create a big difference in the team performance. While modelling the team work, the leader plays an important role in placing the rules of the team members in order that the team members are successful in the team work (Cascio & Shurygailo, 2003; Yoo & Alavi, 2004; Hertel et al, 2005). In the traditional management literature, despite many researches about leadership in teams, there are not many studies about leadership in virtual teams (Yoo & Alavi, 2004; Hertel et al, 2005)

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