1.1 INTRODUCTION AND PROJECT IDEA 1.2 THE PROJECT AIM 1.3 GOALS 1.4 PROJECT METHODOLOGY 1.5 PROJECT PLAN
2 LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 LEADERSHIP 2.1.1 ASPECTS IN A REMOTE WORKFORCE ENVIRONMENT 2.1.2 GENERAL ASPECTS 2.2 PLANNING 2.2.1 MANAGERS AND PLANNING 2.2.2 PLANNING VERSUS DIRECTION SETTING 2.2.3 EFFECTIVENESS 2.3 POWER 2.3.1 POWER LOSS 2.3.2 PERSONAL POWER VERSUS SOCIAL POWER 2.3.3 GENUINE POWER 2.3.4 SOCIAL POWER 2.3.5 AUTHORITY 2.3.6 SOCIAL POWER AND SOURCES OF POWER 2.3.7 IMAGES OF POWER 2.3.8 POWER NEEDS 2.4 COMMUNICATION 2.4.1 HOW HUMAN BEINGS COMMUNICATE 2.4.2 QUALITY OF COMMUNICATION 2.4.3 INFORMATION PROCEDURES 2.4.4 INFORMATION CONTROL 2.4.5 EFFICIENCY OF REMOTE WORKING 2.4.6 COMMUNICATION TOOLS 2.4.7 THE COMMUNICATION PROCESS
3 SYNTHESIS
3.1 LEADERSHIP / MOTIVATION 3.2 PLANNING 3.3 COMMUNICATION 3.4 POWER
4 EMPIRICAL QUESTIONS
5 FIELD RESEARCH
5.1 APPROACH OF RESEARCH 5.2 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF SURVEY 5.3 SAMPLE DESIGN 5.4 METHOD OF COLLECTING DATA 5.5 NUMBER OF INTERVIEWS 5.6 INTERVIEW DESIGN 5.7 ADVANTAGES AND LIMITATIONS OF APPROACH
6 FINDINGS
6.1 CONDITIONS 6.2 LEADERSHIP 6.3 PLANNING 6.4 COMMUNICATION 6.5 POWER
7 DISCUSSION
7.1 LEADERSHIP 7.2 PLANNING 7.3 COMMUNICATION 7.4 POWER
Table 1: Leader’s role Table 2: DAME model Table 3: Managerial influence (Konradt/Hertel 2002) Table 4: Phases and managerial tasks of a virtual team Konradt/Hertel (2002) Table 5: List of coaching skills Table 6: Leader’s role and recommended skills Table 7: Images of power Table 8: Influence table ranking Table 9: Ranking of success Figure 1: Project Plan Figure 2: The team Leader role (Fisher & Fisher 2001) Figure 3: Cognitive resource theory Figure 4: Communication process (Catin 1999) Figure 5: Cognitive communication model (Catin 1999) Figure 6: The boundary manager focus area (Fisher & Fisher 2001)
