A Literature Review on Challenges of Virtual Team's Leadership

Abstract

Virtual teams have emerged seeing that the world has become extremely compound and technological. In this paper, author attempted to address main challenges of virtual team especially in leadership. In this review, it is distinguished that having proper communications and trust between team members can obtain consistent success and reach team goals. A leader in virtual organization should converge all of team elements because of the lack of sound communication among members. Identifying and applying appropriate team leading strategies for a virtual condition will not only raise the value of organizational productivity but will also positively influence on the quality of trust and culture of virtual team members.

Keywords: virtual team, leadership, trust, communication.