Creativity in Virtual Teams: Key Components for Success helps readers navigate and implement creative processes and effective working conditions within virtual contexts. With a distinct focus on fostering creativity in distanced collaborative arrangements, the book unveils the five critical components for successful virtual teams: design, climate, resources, norms and protocols, and continual assessment and learning.
The book provides strategies for creating a supportive atmosphere that is conducive to idea generation, ensuring team cohesion, developing leadership structures, and setting appropriate benchmarks for continual improvement. It thoroughly examines the use of communication tools and creativity techniques, as well as operational standards for resource allocation and workflow management. Additionally, it offers insights for effectively transitioning from academia to remote or hybrid professional work environments.
The second edition features updates throughout related to contemporary technology and software and how they are used in virtual environments. In addition, a new chapter has been added on virtual teams in higher education.
Creativity in Virtual Teams is ideal for courses in organizational psychology, virtual project management, and leadership development. It addresses the needs of anyone involved with or interested in virtual teams, offering helpful strategies for students, educators, consultants, managers, and global team members whose objective is to elevate their virtual team's creative aptitude and operational successes.
Jill E. Nemiro is a professor of psychology at the College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Her research interests include organizational and team creativity, the virtual workplace, and qualitative research methodology. As an organizational psychologist, Dr. Nemiro has been widely published on ways to design virtual teams to be collaborative, creative, and high performing. She holds a Ph.D. in organizational psychology from Claremont Graduate University.
