The increased use of virtual teams during the Covid-19 pandemic: implications for psychological well-being

IF 3.8 Q2 MANAGEMENT

HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL Pub Date : 2022-03-03 DOI:10.1080/13678868.2022.2047250

D. Chai, Sunyoung Park

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Abstract

Abstract Organizations have increasingly moved toward decentralized and globalized work processes with the advent and improvement of information and communication technologies, which accelerated the implementation of virtual teams. While researchers and practitioners have previously debated the effectiveness of remote working in virtual teams by weighing its advantages and disadvantage, working remotely in virtual teams has become the new normal after COVID-19. Various challenges of working remotely in virtual teams have significantly affected employees’ psychological well-being. This study aims to (a) synthesize the literature on virtual teams focusing on the definition, antecedents, and outcomes, (b) review the literature on the relationship between virtual teams and psychological well-being, (c) share two practical cases, and (d) offer implications for HRD professionals to improve virtual team members’ psychological well-being. This study contributes to the field of HRD as it addresses several theoretical and practical limitations of the virtual team literature (e.g., lack of an integrative definition, lack of a comprehensive nomological network of virtual teams, lack of studies on psychological well-being in virtual teams). More importantly, since virtual teams have not been explored well in the HRD literature, the findings provide relevant and viable implications on psychological well-being for HRD practices as well as HRD research.

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Covid-19大流行期间虚拟团队的使用增加:对心理健康的影响

随着信息通信技术的出现和发展，组织的工作流程越来越趋向于分散和全球化，这加速了虚拟团队的实现。虽然研究人员和从业人员之前一直在权衡其利弊，对虚拟团队远程工作的有效性进行辩论，但在2019冠状病毒病之后，虚拟团队远程工作已成为新常态。在虚拟团队中远程工作的各种挑战已经显著影响了员工的心理健康。本研究旨在(a)对虚拟团队的定义、前因和结果等方面的文献进行综合，(b)对虚拟团队与心理健康关系的文献进行综述，(c)分享两个实际案例，(d)为人力资源开发专业人员提高虚拟团队成员的心理健康提供启示。这项研究有助于人力资源开发领域，因为它解决了虚拟团队文献的几个理论和实践局限性(例如，缺乏一个综合的定义，缺乏一个全面的虚拟团队的法理学网络，缺乏对虚拟团队心理健康的研究)。更重要的是，由于虚拟团队尚未在人力资源开发文献中得到很好的探讨，因此研究结果为人力资源开发实践和人力资源开发研究的心理健康提供了相关和可行的启示。

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HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT-

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11.40

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11.10%

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