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Provides a comprehensive presentation of current and emerging perspectives focusing on all aspects of managing IT HR from the view of both practitioners and academics located around the globe. It will focus on the results of recent research and their implications to IT human resource considerations.

Distributed teams are becoming more common as organizations use new technologies to span across geographic boundaries. Distributed Team Collaboration in Organizations: Emerging Tools and Practices summarizes the challenges inherent in leading distributed teams and explores practices that are emerging to optimize distributed team performance. Learning to form and sustain high-performing distributed teams with members in multiple locations, time zones, and with diverse cultural perspectives requires new approaches to collaboration. This book highlights the new skills needed for leadership, collaboration, and cooperation and can aid organizations in developing these skills in the workforce.

Characterizes the nuanced communication, relational, and practical dynamics that characterize virtual working in contemporary organizations. This work addresses virtual teams, peer relationships in virtual work, mentoring, vertical mobility, diversity in the virtual workspace, productivity and the postmodern aesthetic, and more.

Examines the complexities and challenges present in improvising the learning process in education programmes. This publication highlights real-life experiences, theoretical concepts, and practical applications within the field, as well as the role of information technologies in management education and training programmes.

Provides a comprehensive framework that can be used to develop and design case studies that could measure the identified values that people, technology, and strategy can provide to the organisation. This book aims to serve as a guide for managers and leaders as they develop strategies to introduce new people and technology into the workplace.