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    E-leader practices on construction project: Industrialised building system (IBS)
    ( 2021-05-03)
    Ahmad Pozin M.A.
    ;
    Soosay Nathan S.A.P.
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    Yaziz Mohamad M.F.A.
    ;
    Abashah A.
    In the new globalisation world, organisation took the virtual teams approach as initiative to become more dynamic and innovative to sustain in the new business transformation era. Communicate across time, boundaries and culture become a common practices into new concept of virtual team landscape. Despite an increase implementation virtual approach in organizations, there is little research has been done in discovering virtual-leader capabilities in managing construction industry. In spite, this research to investigate e-leader competency in managing project operational associated to communication process in managing Industrialised Building System (IBS) project. The data were obtained in this research from literature review and followed by semi-structured face to face interviews with 5 experienced stakeholders from IBS contractors in Malaysia. The result from this study showed e-leader face a unique challenges compare to the conventional teams especially on building trust, communication, diversity and distance. E-leader have to set a clear direction and strategies in developing a good management performance and team development process by create a team orientation which included motivation, building positive effect and shaping perception.