Leading Virtual Project Teams: Adapting Leadership Theories and Communications Techniques to 21st Century Organizations (Hardcover)

Margaret R. Lee

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商品描述

In a 1945 speech, Winston Churchill stated, "We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past." Was Churchill predicting the future of project management? Have we changed how we communicate and lead projects? Have leadership and management theories and models evolved to keep pace with today’s business environment?

Leading Virtual Project Teams: Adapting Leadership Theories and Communications Techniques to 21st Century Organizations addresses the challenges the virtual project management environment poses to traditional methods of leadership and communication. It introduces new approaches for adapting existing leadership theories to e-leadership as well as progressive tools and techniques to improve virtual project communications.

The book begins by examining the factors affecting the movement from traditional work environments to virtual organizations. It considers the challenges of leading multicultural, global organizations and reviews what e-leadership means. Illustrating the application of both traditional and new leadership models and theories to virtual project management, the book includes best practices for:

  • Managing and motivating the multicultural team
  • Communicating in a distributed work environment
  • Avoiding social isolation
  • Cyber-bullying in the virtual environment and e-ethics
  • Cultural management issues

Explaining how traditional leadership theories and models can be applied to contemporary projects, the book details methods virtual project managers can use to enhance virtual communications. The final chapter describes the e-leadership skills and competencies project managers will need to ensure sustainable success in today’s competitive business environment.

This book provides the virtual project manager with the tools and techniques to improve e-leadership and communications. Complete with case studies that illustrate real-world applications to the virtual challenges presented in each chapter, the book is a suitable text for educational institutions looking to increase understanding of project management leadership and communications outside the traditional project environment.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

在1945年的演講中,溫斯頓·邱吉爾曾說過:“我們正在塑造世界,但我們的改變速度跟不上,我們正在將過去的習慣應用於現在。”邱吉爾是否預測了項目管理的未來?我們是否改變了我們溝通和領導項目的方式?領導和管理理論和模型是否已經演變以跟上當今的商業環境的步伐?

《領導虛擬項目團隊:將領導理論和溝通技巧適應21世紀組織》探討了虛擬項目管理環境對傳統領導和溝通方法所帶來的挑戰。它介紹了將現有領導理論適應到電子領導以及改進虛擬項目溝通的新方法和技巧。

該書首先考察了影響從傳統工作環境轉向虛擬組織的因素。它考慮了領導跨文化、全球組織所面臨的挑戰,並解釋了電子領導的含義。通過示範如何將傳統和新的領導模型和理論應用於虛擬項目管理,該書提供了以下最佳實踐:

- 管理和激勵多元文化團隊
- 在分散工作環境中進行溝通
- 避免社交孤立
- 虛擬環境中的網絡欺凌和電子倫理
- 文化管理問題

該書解釋了如何將傳統領導理論和模型應用於當代項目,並詳細介紹了虛擬項目經理可以使用的方法來增強虛擬溝通。最後一章描述了項目經理在當今競爭激烈的商業環境中確保可持續成功所需的電子領導技能和能力。

該書為虛擬項目經理提供了改進電子領導和溝通的工具和技巧。每章都附有實際案例研究,展示了如何應對虛擬環境中的挑戰。對於希望增加對項目管理領導和溝通的理解的教育機構來說,這本書是一本合適的教材,可以超越傳統項目環境。