Managing Mega Construction Projects; Role & Effectiveness of Virtual Teams

Abstract

The number of organization is construction sector are increasing day by day and the organizations are employing virtual teams in order to meet the today’s global competition and customer’s expectation. In order to make sure that virtual teams are effective the construction company’s must evaluate their team effectiveness. It is believed that creating a highly effective project team will produce high-end project outcome that exceeds standards and therefore enhance overall productivity. The purpose of this study is to determine the factors and challenges that are associated with virtual team’s effectiveness, to determine the current situation of virtual teams, tools and techniques for communicating and collaborating and work processes in practice and to propose best business model for managing virtual teams. Qualitative Research methods were used for this study, which were semi structured interviews and the case studies. The interview questions were developed for data collection. The data was then analyzed through descriptive method. Two case studies were carried out to obtain the knowledge of actual field practices carried out by using virtual teams. The outcomes from this study are anticipated to provide virtual teams with the ideas on the factors that need to be focused to improve their effectiveness. Furthermore a model has been proposed to manage these teams more effectively on the basis of this research.