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• Hold an initial face-to-face startup
• Have periodic face-to-face meetings, especially to resolve conflict and maintain team cohesiveness
• Establish a clear code of conduct or set of norms and protocols for behavior
• Recognize and reward performance
• Use visuals in communications
• Recognize that most communications will be non-verbal -- use caution in tone and language

Strategies for VT
The following tips come from research into virtual teamwork.

• Hold an initial face-to-face startup
• Have periodic face-to-face meetings, especially to resolve conflict and maintain team cohesiveness
• Establish a clear code of conduct or set of norms and protocols for behavior
• Recognize and reward performance
• Use visuals in communications
• Recognize that most communications will be non-verbal -- use caution in tone and language

Work organizations increasingly adopt shared electronic databases. However, employees' unwillingness to contribute to shared resources undermines the utility of such technologies. Current research is limited to either a utilitarian or normative perspective. To advance understanding in this area, this study proposes a three-dimensional framework. It includes the utilitarian and normative perspectives as two complementary dimensions in addition to a third collaborative dimension. Based on this framework, the study identifies three key organizational processes and advances an additive model to predict employees' willingness to contribute to shared electronic databases. An empirical test was conducted to assess the model in a large manufacturing organization. The test showed both significant overall effects of the model and significant main effects of each predictor variable. The article will discuss the findings and address both theoretical and practical implications.

Key Words: information sharing • collective action • organizational knowledge • knowledge management • collaboration • communities of practice • identification

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