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How to Leverage the Potential of Diverse and Virtual Teams and Benefit from Diversity Management?

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Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement (EuroSPI 2018)

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This paper presents the current state of managing diverse and virtual teams. The need for and success of diversity management is discussed in theory and practice. Findings from scientific research are presented and compared with good practice from industry. A new way of achieving positive performance is suggested, with positive leadership and positive communication, to make diversity management understood and successful, for the benefit of divers and virtual teams in software engineering and beyond.

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    Gabriele Sauberer

  2. Faculty of Economics and Management, Opole University of Technology, Opole, Poland

    Jolanta Maj

  3. Faculty of Business and Management, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic

    Valery Senichev

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Sauberer, G., Maj, J., Senichev, V. (2018). How to Leverage the Potential of Diverse and Virtual Teams and Benefit from Diversity Management?. In: Larrucea, X., Santamaria, I., O'Connor, R., Messnarz, R. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 896. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97925-0_45

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