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Progress of Virtual Teams in Albania
Gloria Tyxhari, Albana Gorishti, Kozeta Sevrani
Pages - 38 - 47     |    Revised - 01-05-2011     |    Published - 31-05-2011
Volume - 2   Issue - 2    |    Publication Date - July / August 2011  Table of Contents
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KEYWORDS
Virtual, team, communication
ABSTRACT
Virtual teams are used more and more by companies and other organizations to receive benefits. They are a great way to enable teamwork in situations where people are not sitting in the same physical place at the same time. As companies seek to increase the use of virtual teams, a need exists to explore the context of these teams, the virtuality of a team and software that may help these teams working virtualy. Virtual teams have the same basic principles as traditional teams, but there is one big difference. This difference is the way the team members communicate. Instead of using the dynamics of in-office face-to-face exchange, they now rely on special communication channels enabled by modern technologies, such as e-mails, faxes, phone calls and teleconferences, virtual meetings etc. This is why this paper is focused on the issues regarding virtual teams, and how these teams are created and progressing in Albania.
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Mr. Gloria Tyxhari
Tirana University - Albania
gtuxhari@yahoo.com
Mr. Albana Gorishti
Tirana University, Facolty of Economy - Albania
Professor Kozeta Sevrani
Tirana University, Faculty of economy - Albania


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