Abstract:
While considered the research about leadership in virtual team, little research has examined how leadership is being perceived in computer-mediated communication (CMC) team. The goal of this study was to find out factors affecting a person to be perceived as a leader using a content analysis derived from functional leadership model to distinguish type of task role. The results of the study have shown that CMC Virtual Team may identify more than one leaders. The factors affecting a person to be perceived as a leader in CMC Virtual Team are “Idea Generation”, “Creating Process”, and “Dividing Labor”.
