| Abstract [eng] |
Virtual teams had become a common appearance in nowadays. The usage of informational technology made it possible for people around the world to work together without even leaving their own houses. The purpose of this research was to analyze the work problematic in virtual teams. With reference to nonfiction literature analysis, in this research I‘ve analyzed the origination of virtual teams, reasons, why such form of teams were created, their features and main peculiarities of their classification. I’ve also determined that there are six problematic areas that occur while working in virtual environment: cultural (geographical) differences, communication, trust, technical problems, work coordination problems and lack of shared goal. I’ve also created a research model of virtual team’s working based on traditional team’s models. Based on problematic areas, those occur while working in virtual environment, I’ve formulated three hypotheses: H1: leader’s part influences the formation of team’s base in virtual teams, H2: work coordination problems in virtual teams influence the teams being late and not being able to finish their work on time and H3: more frequent communication between team members in virtual environment influence the quality of team’s results. According to the results obtained after the performed research, H1 was confirmed, H2 was confirmed only partly and H3 wasn’t confirmed at all. The results of the research also helped to supplement the problematic areas mentioned above. The additional areas are: team leader’s part, time matching problems and complicated control of virtual team’s members. Based on the results of the performed research I’ve made suggestions how to reduce the influence of occurring problems while working in virtual environment. This research paper consists of 60 pages, 17 tables and 19 pictures. |
