Purpose: Virtual product development teams are geographically dispersed and cross-functional, but yet they work on highly interdependent tasks by communicating electronically in work groups. This among other issues presents new challenges for the management of knowledge transfer. Based on...

The terms ‘human resource management’ (HRM) and ‘human resources’ (HR) have largely replaced the term ‘personnel management’ as a description of the processes involved in managing people in organizations. Human Resource (HR) management deals with the design of formal systems in an...