VOSS: Shared Leadership: Moving Beyond Virtuality and Distribution to Build Capacity in Virtual Organizations

VOSS：共享领导力：超越虚拟性和分发，构建虚拟组织的能力

• 批准号: 1025767
• 负责人: Shawn Burke
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1025767&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: VOSS; Shared; Leadership; Moving; Beyond

The question of shared leadership is growing more important as complex world issues increasingly require distributed collaboration. Organizational researchers lack an understanding of the multiple kinds of leadership roles that virtual teams rely on and of the optimal balance of these roles. Previous research has confounded virtuality and distribution or included only a few combinations of these characteristics. Systematically examining the combined effects of degree of virtuality and geographical distribution on emerging forms of leadership and outcomes, this research includes a lab study to understand leadership structure in virtual teams. It investigates how team cognitive processes and performance are affected by: (1) how leadership is shared or distributed among internal and external team members, (2) the degree of virtuality inherent in the tools used for collaboration (e.g. synchronicity, informational value), and (3) the degree of distribution among team members (e.g. fully distributed, partially distributed). Results will extend existing theory on shared leadership and team cognition to hybrid teams of virtual and face-to-face interactions to illuminate the relationship between leader behaviors and team outcomes.These findings will ultimately provide evidence-based guidelines for practitioners regarding the form(s) of leadership best suited for particular types of virtual teams and the corresponding processes required for effective performance. Additionally, findings will contribute to knowledge concerning how virtual team structure interacts with computer and communication support technology to impact team process and performance with potentially transformative results.

由于复杂的世界问题越来越需要分布式协作，共同领导的问题越来越重要。组织研究人员对虚拟团队依赖这些角色的最佳平衡和最佳平衡的多种领导角色缺乏了解。先前的研究已经混淆了虚拟性和分布，或者仅包括这些特征的几种组合。 该研究系统地检查了虚拟性和地理分布程度对新兴领导和成果形式的综合影响，包括一项实验室研究，以了解虚拟团队中的领导力结构。它调查了团队认知过程和绩效如何受到以下方式的影响：（1）如何在内部和外部团队成员之间共享或分配领导力，（2）用于协作工具（例如同步性，信息价值）和（3）团队成员的分配程度（例如，完全分布，部分分配，部分分配）。结果将把关于共享领导和团队认知的现有理论扩展到虚拟和面对面互动的混合团队，以阐明领导者行为与团队成果之间的关系。这些发现最终将为实践者提供有关特定类型类型的虚拟团队以及相应的有效绩效所需的领导力形式的基于证据的指南。此外，发现将有助于有关虚拟团队结构如何与计算机和通信支持技术相互作用的知识，从而影响团队过程和绩效，并具有潜在的变革结果。