Posted by In the previous blog post, we presented the answer to the research question, which was: to what extent does the lack of a defined manager of a virtual team affect the emergence of sustainable influence of team members on the course of the team? The question was raised as part of an article to be published in the journal Organization and Management, as well as participation in the conference “Sustainable Enterprise. Dilemmas of Sustainable Development.”
Now we will answer the second research question, which was the following in our study: To what extent does the sustainable influence of virtual team members affect the fulfillment of team performance criteria?
To answer this question, we evaluated the performance of virtual teams according to the criteria that were established for them at the beginning of the study. These were the following criteria for solving the organizational problem presented to us by the participants as a pdf file:
- detail (whether the solution to the organizational problem was detailed),
- completeness (whether the organizational problem was solved completely),
- originality (whether the solution to the organizational problem was original).
The answer to this question was provided by the distribution of the coefficient of variation in % for individual virtual teams and the total evaluation of teamwork. The Pearson correlation coefficient was also calculated from the data, which in this case was 0.3773 for the trend line function, which is a polynomial of the fourth degree. Increasing the degree of the polynomial does not result in any apparent improvement in the correlation coefficient. Therefore, it can be concluded that the balanced influence of virtual team members has very little impact on meeting the team performance criteria. Summarizing the two research questions and the answers found to them, it is difficult to directly relate the use of balanced virtual team management to the performance of the virtual team. We hypothesize here that perhaps sustainable management is just another fad in management and quality sciences, rather than a viable set of tools that would increase the effectiveness of a virtual team. Perhaps we will test this hypothesis in our next research.