Virtual and Collaborative Teams
Author: Godar
About the Author
Susan Hayes Godar is Associate Professor and Chairperson in the Department of Marketing & Management Sciences at the Christos M. Cotsakos College of Business, William Paterson University. Her research, primarily on virtual groups, the ethics of mobile commerce, and marketing practices, has appeared in such journals as Journal of International Management, Industrial Marketing Management, Services Marketing Quarterly, and Teaching Business Ethics. She is currently the Section Editor (e-Marketing) for Marketing Education Review Electronic Teaching Resources. Dr. Godar has served as a consultant to numerous companies and organizations in the aviation industry, and has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences Transportation Research Board. Prior to joining academe, she marketed helicopters and light airplanes. Professor Godar holds a BA in Sociology from Creighton University, an MBA from the University of Iowa, and a Ph.D. in International Business from Temple University.
Sharmila Pixy Ferris (PhD, the Pennsylvania State University, 1995) is an Associate Professor in the Interpersonal Concentration of the Department of Communication at William Paterson University. With a Master's in English and a Bachelor's in Psychology, Dr. Ferris brings an interdisciplinary focus to her research in computer-mediated communication. This relatively new field builds on an investigation of the potentials and innovations introduced to the field of communication by new computer technologies. Within the broader area of computer-mediated communication, Dr. Ferris studies gender, small groups, literacy, and adoption patterns. She is an experienced consultant, and has worked with regional, national and multi-national corporations to conduct diversity training as well as workshops in communication skills, leadership, and teamwork. Dr. Ferris has an upcoming book in the area of faculty development, entitled *Beyond Survival in the Academy* (May 2003, Hampton Press). She has published in a variety of journals including Qualitative Research Reports, The New Jersey Journal of Communication, The Electronic Journal of Communication, Interpersonal Computing and Technology, The Journal of Electronic Publishing and Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine.
Table of Contents:
| Preface | ||
| Ch. I | Virtual Teams as Sociotechnical Systems | 1 |
| Ch. II | Effective Virtual Teamwork: A Socio-Cognitive and Motivational Model | 20 |
| Ch. III | Understanding Composition and Conflict in Virtual Teams | 35 |
| Ch. IV | Leading from Afar: Strategies for Effectively Leading Virtual Teams | 49 |
| Ch. V | Creating Positive Attitudes in Virtual Team Members | 76 |
| Ch. VI | Trust in Virtual Teams | 99 |
| Ch. VII | Newcomer Assimilation in Virtual Team Socialization | 115 |
| Ch. VIII | Negotiating Meaning in Virtual Teams: Context, Roles and Computer-Mediated Communication in College Classrooms | 133 |
| Ch. IX | The Strategic Use of "Distance" Among Virtual Team Members: A Multidimensional Communication Model | 156 |
| Ch. X | How Hard Can It Be to Communicate? Communication Mode and Performance in Collaborative R&D Projects | 174 |
| Ch. XI | Technology and Virtual Teams | 193 |
| Ch. XII | Virtual Teams and their Search for Creativity | 213 |
| Ch. XIII | Virtual Teams in an Executive Education Training Program | 232 |
| Ch. XIV | Motivational Antecedents, Constituents, and Consequents of Virtual Community Identity | 253 |
| Ch. XV | A Model for the Analysis of Virtual Teams | 269 |
| About the Authors | 279 | |
| Index | 289 |
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Empowerment: The Politics of Alternative Development
Author: John Friedmann
Two-thirds of the population of the world are poor, and their number is growing in the first as well as in the third world, despite billions of dollars of aid. The economic development policies of the last two decades, and the theory which gave rise to them, have been discredited. The rich are disillusioned, apprehensive or uninterested, while the poor are embittered and without hope, the victims and agents of ignorance, instability and environmental degradation. The need for radical rethinking is urgent: this book makes an important contribution towards that end.
John Friedmann argues that poverty should be seen not merely in material terms, but as social, political and psychological powerlessness. He presents the case for an alternative development committed to empowering the poor in their own communities, and to mobilizing them for political participation on a wider scale. In contrast to centralized development policies devised and implemented at the national and international level, alternative development restores the initiative to those in need, on the grounds that unless people have an active role in directing their own destinies long-term progress will not be achieved.
The author takes the household as the strategic starting-point—stressing its moral, political and economic potential—as a source of continuity and as a location for production. From this basis he propounds a politics of emancipation that would enable the disempowered poor to assert their rights.
Empowerment provides a morally-informed theoretical framework for a development policy that meets the needs of its recipients rather than of its makers.
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