Chapter 1: New Directions for Research on the Management of Teams

This volume of Research in Human Resource Management showcases nine papers that examine the future of team research and management through the lenses of systems thinking; machine learning and data science; drivers of team performance; the changing nature of flexible, remote, and virtual work and its impact on teams; and the implications for diverse members of virtual teams. This introduction to the volume provides both an orientation to the chapters and an assessment of the connections among them and to the existing team literature. We conclude that the future of team research must incorporate a systems or network perspective, studies that model and test dynamic variables and relationships that evolve over time or across contexts, research conducted at the task level, and examinations of the evolving nature and outcomes of remote, flexible, and virtual work across a diverse workforce.