In a virtual environment members use different influence tactics to impact team decisions. These influence tactics can affect how decisions are made, how strategies and policies are executed, and team member’s motivation, commitment, cooperation and collaboration. All these factors can affect a virtual team’s efficiency and productivity; therefore it is very important for the virtual team leader to manage politics in virtual space. In virtual teams there is no time to indulge in workplace politics as they interact in a limited time and discussions are more centered on tasks. Members of virtual team need to be more assertive in their influence attempts and have to focus on building relationships with their team members in order to be successful
