ABSTRACT
Before the Covid-19 pandemic, the body of literature about the transition from the traditional teams to the virtual ones was not very well outlined and spread. However, in the present, the efforts to understand virtual teams and their effectiveness are growing faster and faster. Thus, this paper aims at underlining the main differences between the communication among co-workers within traditional and virtual teams, the differences in terms of communication and job satisfaction when it comes to both traditional and virtual teams and whether there is a positive correlation between communication among co-workers and job satisfaction in traditional teams versus virtual teams. A survey with 135 respondents (with different roles and experiences across different industries) was conducted in order to test the hypotheses formulated within the study and to emphasize which of the two types of teams is more effective.
ABSTRACT
One of the main actors in the rural area, the family farm, is deeply affected by the health crisis caused by the novel coronavirus. On the one hand, the economic and social fragility has deepened the dysfunctions - already existing before the pandemic - generating inefficient self- defense/self-protection mechanisms, for risk reduction;on the other hand, the shocks have been so strong that they caused the agri-food chains to break. The family farm economic structures, its specific functions, mainly those related to the sale of agricultural products, have proved to be vulnerable, the same as the entire system of relations of family farms with the other areas of activity, mainly with the markets for the sale of agricultural products.