Leading Global Teams

Leading Global Teams Means Dealing with Different.- Part I: Foundations of Global Teams.- Culture, Communication, and Conflict: A Review of the Global Virtual Team Literature.- Project GLOBE for Scientists and Practitioners: Drawing Clarity from Controversy.- Structuring Successful Global Virtual Teams.- Part II: Adapting Global Teams.- Team Training for Global Virtual Teams: Strategies for Success.- Developing Cross-Cultural Competencies through Global Teams.- Coaching Global Teams and Global Team Leaders.- Navigating Multicultural Teams: A Road Map to Feedback across Cultures.- Part III: Leading Global Teams.- Alternate Views of Global Leadership: Applying Global Leadership Perspectives to Leading Global Teams.- Leadership for Global Virtual Teams: Facilitating Teamwork Processes.- Can We Count on You at a Distance? The Impact of Culture on Formation of Swift Trust within Global Virtual Teams.- Faultline Deactivation: Dealing with Activated Faultlines and Conflicts in Global Teams.- Global Teams in the Military.- Looking Forward: Meeting the Global Need for Leaders through Guided Mindfulness.

Dr. Jessica L. Wildman is an Assistant Professor in the Industrial Organizational Psychology program and the Research Director of the Institute for Cross Cultural Management at the Florida Institute of Technology. She earned her PhD in industrial/organizational psychology from the University of Central Florida in 2011 under the direction of Dr. Eduardo Salas. Since 2007, she has co-authored eleven book chapters and ten refereed journal articles and has personally presented over twenty times at professional conferences on topics including cultural competence, trust development and repair, global virtual teams, team cognition, and team effectiveness. Dr. Wildman has experience designing and managing international research as a part of a federally funded multidisciplinary university research initiative (MURI) and developing training for the calibration of trust in military swift starting action teams for a small business innovative research (SBIR) project. She was awarded the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) doctoral scholarship in 2010 and the Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research (INGRoup) best conference poster award in 2009 for her work on measuring trust and distrust as separate attitudes. Dr. Wildman and Dr. Griffith are currently co-editing a book entitled "Leading Global Teams: Translating the Multidisciplinary Science to Practice." Her current research interests include interpersonal trust dynamics across cultures, multicultural work performance, and global virtual team processes and performance.Dr. Richard L. Griffith is a Professor in the Industrial Organizational Psychology program and the Executive Director of The Institute for Cross Cultural Management at the Florida Institute of Technology. He is the author of over 75 publications and presentations in the area of personnel selection and is the editor and author of several books, chapters, and journals on the topic. He has conducted funded research for