Resources
The following list provides links to resources to add further depth to your knowledge of virtual and hybrid work, including books, articles, webpages, and products. We strategically choose resources to benefit remote and hybrid workers.
Technologies
Websites and Magazines
How to Do Hybrid Right
“When designing flexible work arrangements, focus on individual human concerns, not just institutional ones.” by Lynda Gratton in the Harvard Business Review
Four Principles to Ensure Hybrid Work is Productive Work
“Organizations have become more flexible about where and when employees work. Now they need to be more intentional about their choices and trade-offs.” by Lynda Gratton in MIT Sloan Management Review
Books
International Virtual Teams: Engineering Global Success provides essential information for creating and maintaining successful international virtual teams for those who manage, participate in, or train others in such teams.
Community Resources
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Journal Articles
Collaboration Technology Affordances from Virtual Collaboration in the Time of COVID-19 and Post-pandemic Strategies
“This paper aims to explore key collaboration technology affordances from virtual collaboration and remote work during the time of COVID-19.” by Mitchell in Information Technology and People, 2021
How Effectively Do We Communicate? An Analysis of Team Reflexivity in Transition and Action Phases of Team Collaboration
“Communication is the backbone of effective collaboration, enabling project success; yet, engineering projects often fail due to poor communication. Specifically engineering teams may benefit from reflexivity interventions to improve decision making, problem solving, innovation, and performance.” by Weger, Leder, Mesmer, Menon, & Schaub in IEEE Transactions of Professional Communication, 2022
Interventions for Effectively Leading in a Virtual Setting
“At least a decade ago, researchers recognized the importance of leaders being able to effectively execute interventions in teams. Now, advances in collaboration technologies have changed the way teams work together in addition to the challenges they face with regard to technology and collaboration.” by Mitchell in Business Horizons, 2012
Leading Hybrid Teams: Strategies for Realizing the Best of Both Worlds
“While virtual teams have been an organizational tool used and studied for decades, the COVID-19 global pandemic accelerated the adoption of virtual collaboration across teams, departments, organizations, and even entire industries in an unprecedented way. Interestingly, while many individuals became “Zoom-ed” out over the course of the pandemic, many others embraced the benefits of remote work, resulting in a widespread interest in adopting hybrid practices at work.” by Mitchell and Brewer in Organizational Dynamics, 2021
Longitudinal Effects of Computer-mediated Communication Anxiety on Interaction in Virtual Teams
“Organizations continue to rely upon virtual teams, yet knowing how, and for how long, individual members’ computer-mediated communication (CMC) anxiety affects virtual team interactions and performance outcomes is not well-known.” by Fuller, Chelley, and Brown in Transactions on Professional Communication, 2016
Real-world Opportunities for Virtual-world Project Management
“Virtual worlds provide technology capabilities that could transform education, communication and collaboration, and project management.” by Owens, Davis, Murphy, Khazanchi, and Zigurs in IT Professional, 2009
(Re)Configuring hybrid meetings: Moving from user-centered design to meeting-centered design
“In this paper, we use micro-analysis of three disruptive moments in a hybrid meeting from a global software company to unpack blended technological and conversational practices of inclusion and exclusion.” by Saatci, Akyuz, Rintel, and Klokmose in Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2020
Trust in Virtual Teams: Solved or Still a Mystery?
“Trust was one of the most prominent topics of early research in virtual teams, highlighted by the emergence of the theory of swift trust. As researchers continue to study this topic, it is important to understand what problems have been solved as well as what aspects of trust in virtual teams remain a mystery.” by Mitchell and Zigurs in Data Base for Advances in Information Systems, 2009
Virtual Team Process and Pathologies: A Theory of Adaptive Intervention
“The dynamic nature of group process is a long-standing challenge for research and practice, and particularly so in virtual teams, which are increasingly a regular part of organizational life today. Virtual teams act in fluid environments, as they strive to make sense of how best to incorporate appropriate technology choices during on-going interaction. Interventions in group process have potential to help teams make those choices.” by Mitchell and Zigurs in International Journal of e-Collaboration, 2013