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Job performance is one of most businesses’ measures to ensure that their business is sustainable, lucrative, and expandable. It is also an important level indicator in Malaysia aerospace manufacturing industry to maintain competitiveness in the global market. By the end of 2019, when a pandemic had hit the world, the situation became more challenging where the government-imposed movement controls to prevent the disease from spreading. This situation led most aerospace manufacturing companies to explore alternative measures to maintain their business operations, including introducing work from home as a virtual working team for their indirect workers. As this strategy is just introduced in Malaysia aerospace manufacturing sector, the concern arises as to the extent of its impact on their job performance. This study purposely to examines the influence factors in the virtual working team environment and its relationship to job performance. Therefore, the findings hope to provide valuable insights to Malaysian manufacturing organizations in effectively managing their virtual working team and enhancing their employees’ job performance.
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Adam, A., Razak, N.S.A., Alshurideh, M.T. (2023). The Effect of Virtual Working Team on Job Performance: A Study of Aerospace Manufacturing Industry in Malaysia. In: Alshurideh, M., Al Kurdi , B.H., Masa’deh, R., Alzoubi , H.M., Salloum, S. (eds) The Effect of Information Technology on Business and Marketing Intelligence Systems. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 1056. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12382-5_68
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