International Virtual Teams: Engineering Global Success - Paperback

by Pam Estes Brewer (Author)

Dr. Brewer presents a complete guide to international virtual team communication with the most up-to-date research developments in the engineering workplace on a global scale, and a problem-solving approach to using and communicating in virtual teams.

• Presents guidelines heavily based on empirical data
• Application of virtual team communication guidelines to the field of engineering
• Provides strategies and sample projects for teaching

Back Jacket

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.

Author Biography

PAM ESTES BREWER, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Technical Communication at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. She is on the editorial board for the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication and Technical Communication, and is a Senior Member and Associate Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication (STC) as well as a member of the IEEE Professional Communication Society. Dr. Brewer is the 2014 recipient of STC's Jay R. Gould Award for Excellence in Teaching and the President's Award for Service. In addition to writing International Virtual Teams, Dr. Brewer has also written articles for journals and book chapters for various publishers.