The impact of leadership on virtual team satisfaction and viability

: the role of performance monitoring and team work engagement

Abstract

This master thesis was conducted to better understand the factors of team effectiveness, especially the relationship between two team leadership functions (promotion of team self-management and promotion of a good social climate) and two components of team effectiveness: satisfaction and viability of team members. Monitoring and back-up behaviours (two action processes) where thought to have a mediating role in these relationships, under the moderation of Team Work Engagement. The results only partially supported these hypotheses. Back-up behaviours were found to be a mediator of the relationship between team self-management and satisfaction, and team work engagement does moderate the relationship between social climate and viability, but no moderated mediation appeared to be significant.

Date of Award	25 Jul 2018
Original language	English
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Patrícia Lopes Costa (Supervisor)