Challenges affecting efficient management of virtual teams in construction in times of the COVID-19 pandemic

Youssef, Mayar Fekry; Eid, Ali Fathy; Khodeir, Laila

doi:10.1016/j.asej.2022.102008

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“…On the employee's side, Elyousfi et al (2021) list a number of possible advantages for virtual teams, such as promoting work-life balance, cutting down on travel time, lowering workplace stress, lowering the need for sick days, and raising employee happiness, which improves recruiting and retention strategies. Moreover, virtual work enhances employee job satisfaction because it provides workers with more freedom (Schuster, 2022;Youssef et al, 2022). In addition, according to Al Uwaisi & Devi (2022), virtual employment has a good effect on people on both a personal and professional level, where people may work from home during business hours with less commuting and greater control over their schedule.…”

Section: Reduced Employee Turnovermentioning

confidence: 99%

The Benefits of Employing Global Virtual Teams in International Business

Alkoud¹,

Qatamin²

2023

IJARBSS

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There is a growing number of multinational companies operating around the world, both in terms of their numbers and the amount of investments abroad. Along with this expansion, there is a noticeable trend among major multinational companies to establish virtual workplaces in order to take advantage of the benefits of global virtual teams. This study aims to increase in-depth knowledge of the benefits of global virtual teams in global business. This paper relies on the qualitative methodology through an in-depth content analysis of the previous literature starting from 2020 to 2023. The study concluded that the global virtual teams contribute to the growth of international business in three main ways, the first of which is reducing costs such as fixed costs such as rent, accommodation, etc., travel and transportation costs, and recruitment costs. The second is to increase productivity by attracting talents from different countries, the possibility of working 24/7, and innovative solutions to complex problems, and the third is the expansion in global markets through the geographical expansion of target markets, and the rapid response to changes in the international business environment. This study contributes to the body of knowledge by providing a thorough grasp of the benefits of employing global virtual teams to promote international trade. These findings are particularly noteworthy because the current study explores the benefits of utilising virtual teams in depth, whereas previous studies mentioned them briefly in the context of other issues.

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Section: Reduced Employee Turnovermentioning

confidence: 99%

The Benefits of Employing Global Virtual Teams in International Business

Alkoud¹,

Qatamin²

2023

IJARBSS

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“…Virtual communication is now regarded as the standard in daily life (Chan et al, 2021). Communication is defined as "the major envelope of information that is acquired, processed, and exchanged among team members when doing business activities" (Youssef et al, 2022). One of the basic difficulties of virtuality is team communication.…”

Section: Communicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Trust encourages the exchange of pertinent information, improves teamwork, and lessens the fear of opportunistic behaviour, which has positive effects on both people and groups (Zaharie, 2021b). It turns out that the main difficulties in a virtual team are communication, trust, and cultural difference (Youssef et al, 2022). Global virtual teams face a unique set of difficult obstacles, these difficulties centred on social problems including trust (Joshi et al, 2022;Gallego et al, 2021).…”

Section: Trustmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The cohesion of the members of the virtual team is one of the most important challenges facing the success of the virtual teams. One of the most significant obstacles to the functioning and effectiveness of virtual teams is the lack of team cohesiveness (Shameem et al, 2017;Fekry Youssef et al, 2022). Some of the difficulties stem from issues with building trust and team cohesiveness given the unique form of communication in virtual teams (Zaharie, 2021a).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…One study found that there are main challenges that determine the success of virtual teams: geographical distance, time distance, perceived distance, formation of virtual teams, and diversity of virtual team members (Morrison-Smith and Ruiz, 2020a). Furthermore, there are a number of factors that affect how well traditional team, including the quality factor, budget, and project schedule in addition to project management, but when used global virtual teams (GVTs), several new factors have emerged to the interface that affect the performance of the virtual team, including the multiplicity of work sites as a result of geographical differences as well as other factors, such as different cultures, language differences, the difficulty of communication between individuals (Abd Shaheen and Alzubaidy, 2022;Youssef et al, 2022;Joshi et al, 2022). The current study contributes to strengthening theoretical studies on the challenges facing the success of virtual teams, whose employment has increased in many organizations and companies of varying activity and size.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Challenges, Barriers, and Obstacles Facing Virtual Teams: a Conceptual Study

Alkoud¹,

Zainudin²,

Sarif³

2023

IJARBSS

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Organizations and companies tend to employ virtual teams significantly. The problem of the study stems from the fact that there is a great contradiction between the increasing use of virtual teams in the field of business and their failure rate. Where the importance of virtual teams and their employment in the field of business is increasing greatly in recent years, especially with the great technological progress in information and communication technology and after the spread of Covid 19, and on the opposite side, previous studies indicate a large failure rate in virtual teams, which calls for more studies on the challenges that You experience the success of virtual teams. The importance of this study stems from filling the gap in previous studies that did not adequately cover this aspect. The current study concluded that there are three main groups of challenges facing virtual teams, which are diversity challenges (culture diversity, languages diversity, time zones diversity, and geographical diversity); technical challenges (first generation technologies, second generation technologies, and third generation technologies); and social challenges (conflict, communication, trust, and cohesion).

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