Author
Pallud, Jessie
Josserand, Emmanuel
Type
Communication / Conférence
Item number of pages
8
Abstract (EN)
The Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), like groupware systems, intranet or
videoconference, enable team members to work on th
e same project but from different places. Some
teams are called virtual because they exist only through the network. As the work is geographically
distributed, bonds and relationships between people
become more important. Indeed, the lack of face-
to-face communication and common settings can alte
r the relationships between people and, as a
result alter their cohesiveness and performance. The sc
ope of this article is to propose a model that
could investigate the presence of emotions and assess th
eir role in distributed teams’ performance. We
combine a model of cohesiveness with the Emotional Intelligence Theory to create our framework. We
also study the emotions expressed by individuals
and the possible communication of these emotions
within their team. Eight hypotheses, which have not yet been tested empirically, are presented.