IntroductionAs organizations become more and more global, the need for effective and efficient project management tools is necessary to achieve business goals and process goals. The growing demand for human resources requires “cross-functional, and often cross-cultural, geographically dispersed project teams” (Beise, 2004). Human resources continually increase in skills, diversity and knowledge, which can benefit cross-cultural organizations. Organizations are always looking for a competitive advantage over their competitors. As a result, virtual project teams are integrated into business models to potentially benefit from business outcomes. The use of electronic mechanisms, tools and resources influences group processes and outcomes. Additionally, the benefits or limitations of virtual teams may also be evident in project management implementation and outcomes. Through this research, I will analyze and discuss how virtual teams face a variety of challenges; However, the most crucial challenge, in my opinion, is that of effective management and constructive leadership. Additionally, this article will examine whether in a virtual team there is a relationship development dilemma that remains a challenging aspect of team success. The fact that virtual teams “are dispersed geographically and/or temporally and are brought together by information and communication technologies” (Beise, Carte, Chidambaram, & Vician, 2010) does not mean that the relational development of the team cannot succeed. I will discover through this research whether virtual teams are indeed more focused on the actual task at hand and less interested in developing relationships common to face-to-face interactions. Essentially this social ...... middle of paper ...... and ethical exchange in a networked environment. 129-133. doi: 10.1145/982372.982405.Beise, C., Chidambaram, L., Carte, T., Vician, C. (2010). A case study of project management practices in virtual environments: lessons learned from working and managing virtual teams. ACM SIGMIS. 41 (4). doi: 10.1145/1899639.1899644. Blumberg, M., Donker, H. (2008). Collaborative management of processes and virtual teams. CHASE '08: Proceedings of the 2008 international workshop on cooperative and human aspects of software engineering. 41-43. doi:10.1145/1370114.1370125. Khazanchi, K., Mitchell, A., Owens, D., Zigurs, I. (2011). An empirical investigation of virtual world projects and metaverse technological capabilities. ACM SIGMIS database. 42 (1). 74-101. doi:10.1145/1952712.1952717. Motiwalla, L., Thompson, J. (2011). Business Systems for Management 2nd Edition. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson.