The impact of hybrid work on team viability, and team perceived virtuality as a mediator

• Autor(a) principal: Roque, Ricardo Anjo
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/30130
• topic: Hybrid teams; Team perceived virtuality; Team leadership; Equipas híbridas; Virtualidade percebida pela equipa; Liderança de equipas

In 2020 the world was left in shock after happening the unexpected, a deadly pandemic that changed our whole lives, including the way we work. Remote work was imposed by organizations, and people saw the bright side of it, nowadays with normality restored, hybrid teams are the most common of team settings. However, little do we know about this new format of working, sometimes presential, sometimes online. Thus, this investigation analyses how team perceived virtuality (TPV) mediates the relationship between hybrid work arrangements and team viability. Additionally, we tried to understand how the leader of the hybrid teams and the hybrid team members can have a role of moderators in this process. For that we analyzed two different operationalizations of hybrid work, measuring the number of days in the office and the number of overlapping days with other team members. In order to achieve the proposed objectives, a questionnaire accessed and answered by 91 participants of a total of 27 hybrid teams, was distributed. The results show us that that neither days in the office nor overlapping days alone directly influence the viability of teams. We can conclude that this influence is there only through the distance dimension of TPV (and not the information deficits one). We also conclude that leadership and team members only moderate the relationship between hybrid work arrangement and team perceived virtuality when considering the number of overlapping days, and not the number of office days.