The Leading Virtually Digest, March 14, 2008

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The LeadingVirtually.com team would like to start a new feature on our blog. Periodically, we plan to post a digest of news and articles that we come across and which we believe might be interesting to our audience. Our focus will be to keep you up to date on recent news, findings, or reports related to virtual teams. We start our first digest with the following two items.

What: Report on the nature of employment in 2018 published by the Chartered Management Institute of UK. Respondents were more than 1,000 senior executives.
Post to which it is related: Welcome to LeadingVirtually.com
Bottom line: 74% of the respondents expected work in virtual teams to become the norm by 2018. This will be driven by the pressure to take care of ageing relatives at home as well as the pressure to reduce pollution caused by commuting. ‘Humanness’ will be a key factor for future organizational success. Positions and job titles might be removed if they hinder collaboration.

What: Research paper – The effects of choice on intrinsic motivation and related outcomes: A meta-analysis of research findings.
Citation: Patall, E. A., Cooper, H., & Robinson, J. C. (2008). The effects of choice on intrinsic motivation and related outcomes: A meta-analysis of research findings. Psychological Bulletin, 134(2), 270-300.
Posts to which it is related: Motivation in Virtual Teams: Lessons from Virtual Worlds, Helping Your Virtual Team Take Ownership of the Team’s Project
Bottom line: Having a choice in a task increases intrinsic motivation. It also increases the level of effort, task performance, and perceived competence. Surprisingly, the effect of choice on intrinsic motivation was greater for instructionally irrelevant choices (i.e., choices that did not affect learning from the task) than for instructionally relevant choices. This may be because instructionally relevant choices require more effort than instructionally irrelevant choices.

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Surinder Kahai is an Associate Professor of MIS and Fellow of the Center for Leadership Studies at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton. He has a B. Tech in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (Bombay), an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Rutgers University, and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Michigan. Surinder has an active research program on leadership in virtual teams, computer-mediated communication and learning, collaboration in virtual worlds, CIO leadership, and IT alignment. His research has been published in several journals including Data Base for Advances in Information Systems, Decision Sciences, Group & Organization Management, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management Information Systems, Leadership Quarterly, and Personnel Psychology. He is currently serving on the editorial boards of Group and Organization Management, IEEE-TEM, and the International Journal of e-Collaboration. He co-edited a Special Issue of Organizational Dynamics on e-leadership and a Special Issue of International Journal of e-Collaboration on Virtual Team Leadership. Surinder has won numerous awards for his teaching, including the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Surinder has spoken on and consulted with several organizations in the U.S. and abroad on the topics of virtual team leadership, e-business, and IS-business alignment, and IS strategy and planning

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