International Virtual Teams: Engineering Global Success

This book provides essential information for creating and maintaining successful international virtual teams for those who manage, participate in, or train others in international virtual teams. Based on new studies in engineering communication, this book presents processes and principles that can help you establish global virtual teams that work, assess your virtual team climate, and maintain the effectiveness of your virtual teams across cultural boundaries.

In addition, it provides you with the knowledge and tools necessary to understand the variable contexts of global virtual teams, so that your organization is able to respond to inevitable changes in technology and the global marketplace.

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 theIEEE 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 writingInternational Virtual Teams, Dr. Brewer has also written articles for journals and book chapters for various publishers.