Exploring employees’beliefs regarding the potentialbenefits of virtual worlds for group cohesion:gather town

As a consequence of advances in Information and Communication Technologies,teleworking is becoming more and more common in organizations. These new ways ofworking create new challenges for companies such as team cohesion despite working indifferent locations. This article aims to analyze the effect...

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Autores: Palos Sánchez, Pedro Ramiro, Baena Luna, Pedro, Silva-O’Connor, Daniel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/148378
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/148378
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-022-14308-7
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Telework
Team cohesion
Virtual worlds
Gather town
Focus group
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Sumario:As a consequence of advances in Information and Communication Technologies,teleworking is becoming more and more common in organizations. These new ways ofworking create new challenges for companies such as team cohesion despite working indifferent locations. This article aims to analyze the effect of the use of so-called“virtualworlds”on the group cohesion of employees in organizations. The focus group method-ology has made it possible to gather the beliefs and opinions of company employeesabout the use of these resources and tools. The results obtained show the positive effect ofthe use of virtual worlds on the cohesion of the teleworking team.