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Virtual Teams: Profiles of Successful Leaders

Virtual Teams: Profiles of Successful Leaders
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Author(s): Jamie S. Switzer (Colorado State University, USA)and Ralph V. Switzer (Colorado State University, USA)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 24
Source title: Analyzing Digital Discourse and Human Behavior in Modern Virtual Environments
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Bobbe Gaines Baggio (American University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9899-4.ch001

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Abstract

As the use of virtual teams becomes increasingly more common in all types of organizations, those involved must have the knowledge to operate efficiently and collaboratively and communicate effectively, particularly the virtual team leaders. Virtual teams will not succeed without strong leadership. Many traditional leadership principles apply to virtual teams, but virtual team leaders have additional challenges. This chapter examines the role of virtual team leaders and determines what characteristics and behaviors are exemplified by those leaders, using an instrument developed by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner. The Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) identifies five practices and behaviors of successful leaders. Additionally, embedded in the “Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership” model are behaviors that serve as the basis for learning to lead, called “The Ten Commitments of Leadership.”

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