Virtual Teams in Higher Education: A Review of Factors Affecting Creative Performance

Torres-Coronas, Teresa; Oliva, Manuel Francisco Romero; Yáñez-Luna, Juan Carlos; Palma, Ana María Lara

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-19713-5_55

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“…In practice, the logistics management contests will normally have several cases with questions and a team needs to select one of them to solve. According to research [33], teams with clear working directions can obtain a better performance. Therefore, when a team picks a case matching its knowledge and techniques grasped, their strengths can be fully realized.…”

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Exploring Factors Influencing Student Performance and Educational Strategies in Logistics Management Contests: An ISM Study

Huang,

Cheng,

Luo

2024

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Nowadays, the importance of logistics management has been increasingly realized in industry and society. However, current educational approaches in logistics management seem unable to effectively equip students with the necessary skills to cope with practical issues after graduation. Recently, contest-based education has attracted logistics management educators’ attention, but how it can be effectively utilized in this discipline is largely unclear. To fill this gap, this study followed a system approach and analyzed the factors influencing student performance in logistics management contests in China using interpretive structural modelling (ISM) and Matrice d’ Impacts Croisés-Multiplication Appliquée á un Classement (MICMAC). The results suggest that the driving forces for improving student performance in contests are the instructors’ encouragement and their previous experience in instructing contests. Also, the contestants’ previous experience in academic contests, team leadership, and effectiveness of communication between instructors and contestants are critical influencing factors. Based on the results, the educational strategies for effective utilization of contest-based education in logistics management are discussed. This study contributes to the existing literature by using a system modeling approach to clarify the mechanisms of contest-based education adoption in logistics management as well as informing university teachers and higher education institutes about strategies to improve their education quality.

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Exploring Factors Influencing Student Performance and Educational Strategies in Logistics Management Contests: An ISM Study

Huang,

Cheng,

Luo

2024

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“…Thus, training can help manage the potential job demands stemming from structural conditions. As virtual teams continue to grow [7,25] and the health pandemic forces the rapid generalization of virtual teamwork [26], many workers or students may lack the proper skills to cope with technologyrelated changes [12,34]. Thus, in this context, affect regulation and interventions (e.g., training) become critical [27,34] in creating sustainable virtual teams.…”

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“…The appearance of subgroups accentuates inter-member negative differentiation between members perceived as the in-group and those perceived as the out-group [24]. Combined with the fast-paced generalization of virtual teams in educational [25] and organizational environments [26,27], this adverse context could seriously harm team members' well-being [25][26][27][28].…”

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Sustainable Virtual Teams: Promoting Well-Being through Affect Management Training and Openness to Experience Configurations

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A disruptive digitalization recently occurred that led to the fast adoption of virtual teams. However, membership diversity and team virtuality threaten members’ well-being, especially if faultlines appear (i.e., subgroups). Considering the job demands–resources model and the role of group affect in shaping members’ perceptions of well-being, we test the effectiveness of a short-term affect management training for increasing members’ eudaimonic well-being. Moreover, based on the trait activation theory and the contingent configuration approach, we draw on the personality composition literature to test how different openness to experience configurations of team level and diversity together moderate the effect of the training. Hypotheses were tested using a pre–post design in an online randomized controlled trial in an educational context in Spain, with a sample of 52 virtual teams with faultlines. Results show that affect management training increased eudaimonic well-being. Furthermore, there was a moderation effect (three-way interaction) of openness to experience configurations, so that the training was more effective in teams with high levels and low diversity in openness to experience. We discuss implications for training, well-being, and personality composition literature. This study helps organizations develop sustainable virtual teams with engaged members through affect management training and selection processes based on the openness to experience trait.

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“…The inability to transfer contextual information and its type and amount across time and distance represent a major consideration for virtual teams [ [89]]. The contextual factors evoke significant differences between traditional team work and the virtual team work [ [90]] and impact their overall outcomes and performance significantly because the contextual information is the key to effectiveness. In distributed teams, it is identified with difficulties.…”

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ICT Collaboration Tools for Virtual Teams in Terms of the SECI Model

Dávideková

Koreňová²

2017

Int. J. Eng. Ped.

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Abstract-Nowadays the current state of development of information and communication technology (ICT) connects individuals across time and space in one common environment that is accessible for anyone, creating the virtual world. To collaborate with somebody or to participate in a team activity does not require a physical presence anymore. Virtual settings allow real-time communication and cooperation across any distance at any time with negligible delay. ICT allows formation of virtual teams to accomplish various functions in work, education and private life. Compared to local teams of physically present individuals, the collaboration in virtual environments is more intensively influenced by external and internal impact factors and requires active motivation of the team members, extensive support by their team leader and appropriate technology. Among all the available ICT tools, not each ICT tool is equally suitable for each and every team activity. This paper aims to provide analysis of various ICT tools, to disclose their potential to contribute to team's quality communication and to reduce drawbacks caused by impersonal environment. Our aim is to optimize the composition of the ICT supporting infrastructure in order to form successful and effective collaboration.

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Virtual Teams in Higher Education: A Review of Factors Affecting Creative Performance

Cited by 6 publications

References 26 publications

Exploring Factors Influencing Student Performance and Educational Strategies in Logistics Management Contests: An ISM Study

Exploring Factors Influencing Student Performance and Educational Strategies in Logistics Management Contests: An ISM Study

Sustainable Virtual Teams: Promoting Well-Being through Affect Management Training and Openness to Experience Configurations

ICT Collaboration Tools for Virtual Teams in Terms of the SECI Model

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