Working at a Distance

Organizations are implementing virtual teams using web technologies as a cost-effective measure for training and project development. In Working at a Distance, Cassandra Smith provides a detailed, comprehensible virtual team business model for managers, professionals, teachers or students involved globally with such initiatives.

Cassandra Smith is an online instructor. She has been writing for over twenty years and teaching in the online environment for six years. Smith has taught several courses online and facilitated virtual teams. She has written web-based courses and trained online faculty. Smith is the author of Who Let this Disaster in My Classroom - an online facilitator's course guide, and Ethical Behaviour in the E-Classroom - a textbook for online students featuring ethical theories as they relate to working in the online environment along with critical thinking concepts. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Communication from the University of Mobile and a Master of Arts in Education with an emphasis in Adult Education and Distance Learning from the University of Phoenix. Cassandra Smith is a doctoral candidate in the Postsecondary and Adult Education discipline.

Chapter 1 Introductionducing the Virtual Team Global Business Model; Chapter 2 Management Using the Virtual Team Global Business Model; Chapter 3 Team Leaders or Project Managers Using the Virtual Team Global Business Model; Chapter 4 Virtual Team Guides and Virtual Team Members Using the Virtual Team Global Business Model; Chapter 5 Business Applications of the Virtual Team Global Business Model; Chapter 6 Higher Education and the Virtual Team Global Business Model; Chapter 7 Determining What Works for Virtual Teams;