Managing and Leading

The topics highlighted in this book pose questions, directions and provide new frameworks for the practitioner and student alike. For example, the emerging emphasis on virtual management and virtual leadership and team effectiveness are related to the firm's performance. There has been a steady stream of research on team development, e-commerce, and knowledge-sharing opportunities in virtual workplaces. When it comes to the needs of geographically dispersed team members or even a collocated workgroup member, the managerial question becomes how to acknowledge members' needs through virtual connectivity? The authors' intent in the proceeding chapters is not to reinvent the wheel of management but to examine the organizational work environments, be it a face-to-face work environment or leading geographically dispersed team members, and factors related to compensation, trust, con