Distributed Engagement and Distributed Disengagement in Global Virtual Teams

Global Virtual Teams (GVTs) have become a common form of team configuration in organizations today. In an effort to understand the effectiveness of the members of these teams individually and as a team, several measures are used by the Human Resource (HR) function of the organizations. One such measure is to understand the levels of employee engagement of the members and teams. Though there is extensive literature on understanding employee engagement in collocated context, we find scanty literature of the same in context of GVTs. Furthermore, it has been reported in the practitioner literature that the GVTs have reduced levels of employee engagement. Owing to the different context of GVTs, understanding and implementing employee engagement activities might be a challenging task for the HR department. Therefore, in this study we seek answers to the broad question of