Print Email Facebook Twitter Technology as enabler for empowerment in distributed teams - a field study on leadership attitudes. Title Technology as enabler for empowerment in distributed teams - a field study on leadership attitudes. Author Bayerl, P.S. Lauche, K. Faculty Industrial Design Engineering Department Product Innovation Management Date 2009-08-07 Abstract In this field study on distributed teams we examined the impact of communication media on attitudes towards empowerment and integration of remote subgroups. Using Q-methodology, interviews and questionnaires we compared attitudes of team members and managers in low and high media-rich environments. Our results indicate that use of richer media was connected with higher appreciation of team empowerment and subgroup integration, but only in groups in consistent contact with the media. Interview data further indicated that changed attitudes coincided with actual changes in leadership behaviors. Implications for leadership in distributed teams are discussed. Subject distributed teamspsychological empowermentcomputer-mediated communicationleadershipvertical decentralization To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:6dd7103b-e5a5-44d4-b9cc-a3ae68599174 Publisher Academy of Management Source 2009 Academy of Management annual meeting, Chicago, Aug. 2009 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c)2009 Bayerl, P.S.; Lauche, K. Files PDF Bayerl_Lauche_AoM_2009_pa ... _14814.pdf 1.06 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:6dd7103b-e5a5-44d4-b9cc-a3ae68599174/datastream/OBJ/view