Is Team Emotional Composition Essential for Virtual Team Members’ Well-Being? The Role of a Team Emotional Management Intervention

Abstract

The aim of this study was twofold. First, we examined the relationship between virtual teams’ emotional intelligence composition and three indicators of their members’ well-being, members’ satisfaction with the team, and positive and negative affective states. Second, we analyzed the moderator role of an online team emotional management intervention in the effects of the team emotional intelligence composition. One hundred and two virtual teams participated in an experimental study with repeated measures. Teams were randomly assigned to either an intervention designed to help them detect and manage emotions during virtual teamwork or a control condition (with no intervention). We followed a hierarchical data strategy and examined a number of nested models using Hierarchical Linear Modeling. Our findings showed that virtual teams’ emotional intelligence composition is a key driver of the team members’ well-being, and that a team emotional management intervention moderated the impact of the team composition of emotional intelligence, buffering its influence.

Examining the Virtual Leadership of Leaders in Higher Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study

“…There is agreement within the literature that leaders would benefit from specialized training to address leadership in virtual and hybrid environments (Alward & Phelps, 2019;Darics, 2020;Friedrich, 2017;Gamero et al, 2021;Purvanova et al, 2021). Researchers such as Gamero et al (2021) and Darics (2017) suggested that training be focused on communication.…”

“…One gap in the current literature about virtual leadership is training virtual leaders (Alward & Phelps, 2019;Darics, 2020;Friedrich, 2017;Gamero et al, 2021;Purvanova et al, 2021). While the literature has insight into what type of leadership is more effective in the virtual environment, how best to prepare these leaders still needs to be confirmed.…”

“…Likewise, while researchers identified training as a need, only a few wrote about what that training would include. Gamero et al (2021) suggested training leaders for emotional intelligence and emotional communication, while Darics (2017) suggested training related to nonverbal communication in the virtual environment.…”

“…These skills are also a predictor of transformational leadership as well as a leader's self-efficacy and ability to support their team emo-CJEAP, 204 tionally (Alward & Phelps, 2019). Likewise, Gamero et al (2021) found that managers could improve the emotional intelligence of their team by modelling it, and an emotionally intelligent team will experience an improved team climate (in which the team would experience less anxiety and work-related tension), more effective interpersonal interactions, increased trust, less conflict, and better decision making.…”

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“…Las personas que componían cada equipo virtual colaboraron sincrónicamente a través de una plataforma online diseñada para llevar a cabo el estudio.Los resultados de nuestra investigación indican que, en general, la formación en gestión emocional es beneficiosa para el bienestar psicológico de las personas que componen el equipo virtual. Un estudio publicado por nuestro equipo en la revista International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health(Gamero et al, 2021), muestra que la inteligencia emocional de las personas que forman el equipo es un factor importante para su bienestar individual. Así, los equipos compuestos por personas con un alto nivel de inteligencia emocional experimentan un mayor nivel de satisfacción con su equipo, y, a la vez, las personas del equipo se sienten menos tensas, desanimadas o nerviosas.…”