International Virtual Teams – Engineering Global Success: IEEE PCS Professional Engineering Communication Series

As a complete guide to international virtual team communication with practical problem-solving strategies, this book is a must-read for managers and engineers in all stages of their professional development.

International Virtual Teams: Engineering Global Success provides essential information for creating and mai taining successful international virtual teams for those who manage, participate in, or train others in international virtual teaming. Based on new studies in engineering communication, this book presents processes and principles that can help managers and engineers establish global virtual teams that work, assess the virtual team climate, and maintain the effectiveness of virtual teams across cultural boundaries. It provides knowledge and tools necessary to understand the variable contexts of global virtual teams, so that organizations are able to respond to inevitable changes in technology and the global marketplace.

This book includes several other important features that will enhance the way virtual teams function such as

• A problem-solving approach to communicating in virtual teams
• Structured approaches to establishing, assessing, and maintaining global virtual teams
• Reports from engineering workplaces, core principles, case studies, and success strategies

The author offers data from a global survey of engineering professionals with 70% of responses provided by engineering professionals outside the U.S.