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- Title
BUILDING AND SUSTAINING TRUST IN VIRTUAL TEAMS WITHIN ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT.
- Authors
Benetytė, Donata; Jatuliavičienė, Gražina
- Abstract
The article aims to show why and how trust and its components of are important within organizational context. Trust in virtual teams is a rather new and little studied field. Explicit understandings of what is a virtual team together with which dimensions define such team are provided. Afterwards, the article discuss what specific challenges virtual teams face when attempting to establish trust between its members providing knowledge on what actions and behaviors can build trust in a virtual team and overcome the challenges specific to virtual teams. Due to certain virtual teams' specifics (geographic dispersion, electronic dependence, dynamic structure and cultural diversity) trust in these teams is usually low. Based on the empirical research results methods for building trust in the virtual team are suggested.
- Subjects
TRUST; ORGANIZATIONAL behavior research; ORGANIZATIONAL sociology research; VIRTUAL work teams; CULTURAL pluralism
- Publication
Regional Formation & Development Studies, 2013, Issue 10, p18
- ISSN
2029-9370
- Publication type
Article