 A New Narrative of Leadership in the Context of Global Virtual Teams?Eithne Knappitsch ()
A chapter in A Relational View on Cultural Complexity, 2023, pp 367-389 from Springer Abstract: Abstract Organizations are re-envisioning their workplaces to meet fresh challenges presented by rapid technological innovation, global health issues, geo-political disruption, and related societal shifts. Through this process, organizations are recognizing the increased opportunities that come with working with highly diverse, collaborative, Global Virtual Teams (GVTs) as a means of both remaining competitive and acquiring and retaining global talent. Remote work settings are therefore becoming spaces of significant cultural complexity. This calls for new forms of leadership and a reframing of leadership practices for a highly diverse virtual work context. This chapter investigates a current trend in leadership scholarship towards leadership as a collective and shared phenomenon and discusses its relevance in the context of culturally diverse virtual teams. It seeks to explore whether it is time for a new narrative of leadership in the context of global virtual teams and remote work settings, arguing that global virtual teams and their leadership need to be re-examined using a relational lens. The chapter discusses how leaders and workers in remote work environments are being unmade, made, and remade through dynamic relational processes mediated by technology and embedded wholly or partly in new virtual contexts. It examines whether a relational framework for leadership can meet the multi-layered and increasingly complex demands of culturally diverse GVTs and concludes that a relational view of leadership is well suited to leverage the cultural complexity, harness the potential of virtuality, and co-create shared virtual spaces of collaboration. This work outlines the far-reaching implications that this has for leadership practices in today’s virtual team environments. Date: 2023 There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:recchp:978-3-031-27454-1_19 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-27454-1_19 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Relational Economics and Organization Governance from Springer |
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