Occupational emerging risks affecting international virtual project Team Results

¹ Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Department of Management, Calea Dumbravii 17, Sibiu, Romania
² Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Emil Cioran 4, Sibiu, Romania

^* Corresponding author: iulia.dumitrascu@ulbsibiu.ro

Abstract

The expansion of internet access, high-speed connection services, collaborative work platforms and tools, allowed employees to interact virtually offering companies the possibility to develop projects around the world, reducing operational costs and gain competitive advantage. Realizing the advantages and disadvantages of developing a project team in an international virtual work environment, requires adopting specific strategies to construct an effective team and ensure the project success. One of the most important disadvantages that we identified is that the new work environment brings new risks for both team members and managers. So, it becomes mandatory to identify and analyze the occupational emerging risks and their impact on the productivity of virtual team members, in order to prevent them efficiently and to ensure the safety and health of employees in a virtual working environment. This paper aims to highlight the necessity for project managers and organizations, to include in their specific project strategies, an efficient occupational risks management in the virtual workplace, to obtain a continuously improved virtual working environment, so to achieve a high performance from virtual employees.