Gender differences in virtual collaboration on a creative design task

Collaboration is an important activity in every organization because it fundamentally affects work processes and organizational outcomes. Diversity adds complexity to the mechanism of virtual teams because teams routinely operate virtually by spanning temporal, geographic, national, and cultural bou...

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Main Authors: SCHILLER, Shu, NAH, Fiona, MENNECKE, Brian, SIAU, Keng
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spelling sg-smu-ink.sis_research-104132024-10-25T08:42:25Z Gender differences in virtual collaboration on a creative design task SCHILLER, Shu NAH, Fiona MENNECKE, Brian SIAU, Keng Collaboration is an important activity in every organization because it fundamentally affects work processes and organizational outcomes. Diversity adds complexity to the mechanism of virtual teams because teams routinely operate virtually by spanning temporal, geographic, national, and cultural boundaries. One important way to decode such complexity is to understand gender differences and their impacts on virtual modes of collaboration. In this research, we examine gender differences and how they influence outcomes and attitudes on virtual collaboration in the context of team gender composition. Phase one of our study involved male-male dyads and female-female dyads that collaborated virtually in Second Life. The preliminary results show that impression management and team effort both have significant positive impacts on team outcomes (trust and satisfaction). Phase two of our study is on dyads of mixed gender. 2011-12-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/9413 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/10413/viewcontent/Gender_Differences_in_Virtual_Collaboration_on_a_Creative_Design_Task___viewcontent.cgi.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Virtual team Collaboration Gender Dyad Impression management Trust Satisfaction Databases and Information Systems
institution Singapore Management University
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Singapore
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topic Virtual team
Collaboration
Gender
Dyad
Impression management
Trust
Satisfaction
Databases and Information Systems
spellingShingle Virtual team
Collaboration
Gender
Dyad
Impression management
Trust
Satisfaction
Databases and Information Systems
SCHILLER, Shu
NAH, Fiona
MENNECKE, Brian
SIAU, Keng
Gender differences in virtual collaboration on a creative design task
description Collaboration is an important activity in every organization because it fundamentally affects work processes and organizational outcomes. Diversity adds complexity to the mechanism of virtual teams because teams routinely operate virtually by spanning temporal, geographic, national, and cultural boundaries. One important way to decode such complexity is to understand gender differences and their impacts on virtual modes of collaboration. In this research, we examine gender differences and how they influence outcomes and attitudes on virtual collaboration in the context of team gender composition. Phase one of our study involved male-male dyads and female-female dyads that collaborated virtually in Second Life. The preliminary results show that impression management and team effort both have significant positive impacts on team outcomes (trust and satisfaction). Phase two of our study is on dyads of mixed gender.
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author SCHILLER, Shu
NAH, Fiona
MENNECKE, Brian
SIAU, Keng
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MENNECKE, Brian
SIAU, Keng
author_sort SCHILLER, Shu
title Gender differences in virtual collaboration on a creative design task
title_short Gender differences in virtual collaboration on a creative design task
title_full Gender differences in virtual collaboration on a creative design task
title_fullStr Gender differences in virtual collaboration on a creative design task
title_full_unstemmed Gender differences in virtual collaboration on a creative design task
title_sort gender differences in virtual collaboration on a creative design task
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2011
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/9413
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/10413/viewcontent/Gender_Differences_in_Virtual_Collaboration_on_a_Creative_Design_Task___viewcontent.cgi.pdf
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