Share Paper: Fostering a Positive Experience in Virtual Teams for Distance Learners

  1. Sharon Borowicz, Benedictine University, United States
Friday, March 11 10:35-10:55 AM Hermitage A

Abstract: Ask any student what aspect of their online MBA program produces the most anxiety and inevitably they will share horror stories of working in virtual teams. The challenges students face in understanding the concepts embodied in the project, coordinating virtual meetings with students living in various time zones, dealing with technology, mirror the challenges that virtual team face in the business world. An estimated 8.4 million employees are members of corporate virtual teams. This is perhaps one of the largest, unprecedented changes that managers have faced in the last fifty years. Unfortunately, evidence increasingly suggests virtual teams fail more often ...