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Howard, Tom, author Geroy, Gary, advisor Morgan, George, committee member Yang, Ray, committee member Harbour, Cliff, committee member 2026-02-09T19:27:20Z 2004 https://hdl.handle.net/10217/243220 https://doi.org/10.25675/3.026074 Advances in technology, transportation, and changing attitudes of working in other cultures have enabled companies to compete in the global marketplace. To create, develop, and manage geographically and culturally dispersed teams, organizations are tasked with understanding the multi-faceted dimensions of a team working virtually. This study was undertaken to explore the relationship between geo-cultural identity and leadership characteristic preference of followers in a virtual environment. A review of earlier research identified five leadership characteristics that were tested in this study - communication, technical skills, trust / relationship building, vision, and collaboration. Information was gathered on how participants ranked these five leadership characteristics, and on the participants' perception of which characteristic was most important to a manager in each of four geo-cultural regions. The participant pool was virtual team members who worked for multi-national companies. Twenty companies participated. There were sixty-two usable responses - forty-nine from North America, ten from Latin America, three from Europe, and none from Asia Pacific. Descriptive and inferential statistics reported that overall, the participants ranked the Communicative and the Trust / Relationship Building leadership characteristics the most significant. The participants ranked the Visionary and Collaborative leadership characteristics third and fourth and the Technological leadership characteristic fifth. The answers to the qualitative question at the end of the survey lent support to the quantitative analysis. Although the North American participants ranked the five leadership characteristics similarly to the overall group, the Latin American participants ranked Communicative first and the remaining four not significantly different. The participants' perception varied of which leadership characteristic was most important to a manager in each region. Participants perceived that Communicative was most important to a North American manager and Trust / Relationship Builder most important to a Latin American manager. To a European manager, the participants perceived that Trust / Relationship Builder and Collaborative were equally important, and that Communicative and Trust / Relationship Builder were equally important to an Asian manager. The study could not definitively answer the research question; however, as the study was exploratory in nature, it did provide insight into those leadership characteristics which are important to members of virtual teams. born digital doctoral dissertations English eng Colorado State University. Libraries 2000-2019 Copyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright. Per the terms of a contractual agreement, all use of this item is limited to the non-commercial use of Colorado State University and its authorized users. correlation analysis studies cultural relations cultural differences collaboration multiculturalism and pluralism Relationship between geo-cultural identity and leadership characteristic preferences of followers in a virtual environment Text Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Doctoral Education Colorado State University This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights (https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/). You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). open.access