Virtual teams: the impact of virtuality on functional leadership and team effectiveness realtionship

• Autor(a) principal: Mendes, Soraia Alexandra Gavino
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/16635
• topic: Teams; Virtual teams; Functional leadership; Team effectiveness; Liderança; Equipa de trabalho; Comunidade virtual; Eficácia organizacional; Equipas; Equipas virtuais; Liderança funcional; Eficáfia de equipa

The emergence of new technologies revealed to be an ultimate adaptation challenge to teams within the organizational context. As teams’ settings and contingencies started to change and to readjust to this new technological world, virtual teams turned into a reality to most of the corporate contexts. Therefore, it is crucial to understand how this virtual context impacts the considered solid relationships and systems. In this study, the moderation effect of virtuality among functional leadership and team effectiveness is empirically examined. However, the first stage of the present research is to analytically verify the predictable link between leadership functions and team effectiveness. For this purpose, a sample composed of 42 teams, 154 individuals, from different consultancy companies is used. The data collection was made through two types of surveys, aiming two different points of view: leaders’ perspective and team members’ perspective. The results supported a strong positive correlation between functional leadership and team effectiveness, as it was theoretically expected. However, contrary to the hypotheses proposed, the virtuality of the team did not prove to be a moderator of the relation functional leadership - team effectiveness. Implications and suggestions for future research regarding virtual teams’ subject are provided.