3) Team Leadership: Virtual team leadership was
measured by using eight questions, each on a scale from one tofive. The items asked respondents to assess the Skills Team
leader’s ability to encourage member initiative across all
backgrounds, ensuring team effectiveness. The questions also
assessed how well the leader was able to set the vision of the
project outcome to the team members, the work processes that
will be employed, the importance of the task, and the outcomes
that would benefit individual members with successful project
completion. Individual team members rated the leadership
highly, with a Skills Team average across all eight items of
2.06 out of 5.0, with the value 1.0 being the highest rating.