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As our society continues its transition from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age, new challenges are being introduced into the workplace, giving rise to a new phenomenon, Virtual Distance, comprised of three major axes: physical distance - geographic, time zone, or organizational; operational distance - multitasking, communication problems, and technical difficulties; and affinity distance - cultural differences, interdependence distance, working relationships, and social distance.
Part of Wiley’s Microsoft Executive Leadership series, Uniting the Virtual Workforce introduces the concept of Virtual Distance to show businesses the definite costs to doing work in a virtual environment. It then goes a step further and offers proven methods for measuring these costs and guidance on managing them.
Wherever your organization is in its understanding of Virtual Distance, Uniting the Virtual Workforce covers:
• How the transition to a “virtual” workforce creates real challenges to collaboration and innovation and how to measure and manage the impact
• How Virtual Distance impacts productivity and innovation and offers insight and guidance on how to manage these new risks
• A historical perspective on “distance,” exposing the so-called “death of distance” as a myth, and showing how our understanding of distance in the virtual workplace must include psychological, as well as physical, spaces
Today, almost all organizations are struggling with the impact that virtualization is having on the workplace. Yet, a full comprehension of the costs of virtualization is lacking. Uniting the Virtual Workforce: Transforming Leadership and Innovation in the Globally Integrated Enterprise presents a better understanding of Virtual Distance and the impact it has on people and performance in today’s workplace, providing the essential tools necessary for minimizing its impact going forward.
If you work with virtual teams, this book is a must! This should be required reading before any manager or executive undertakes building a virtual team.
This book covers the topic of virtual distance and its impact on virtual teams. The book covers how to measure virtual distance and how to reduce the impact. Several different aspects of distance on virtual teams are discussed including several aspects most other books ignore.
Anonymous
Posted April 23, 2008
Dr. Lojeski and Dr. Reilly have shown there are more productive ways to operate overseas in Asian and Middle-Asian/Eastern markets. Companies that work out of the upper block need to read this book.
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Posted April 14, 2008
Highly recommended... This book is the first publication that deals with the truth of the price tag in doing business with core groups segmented across the globe, or across the country. Every executive and director of segmented workforces, even if they are localized or regional, should read this book. Twice if necessary, in order to understand the dollars and sense of working people through technology.
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As our society continues its transition from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age, new challenges are being introduced into the workplace, giving rise to a new phenomenon, Virtual Distance, comprised of three major axes: physical distance - geographic, time zone, or organizational; operational distance - multitasking, communication problems, and technical difficulties; and affinity distance - cultural differences, interdependence distance, working relationships, and social ...