Study of employee attitudes towards virtual management in small and medium sized enterprises : an exploratory data analysis

![CDATA[Research on Virtual Management (VM) has attracted the attention of numerous scholars plus theoretical and empirical studies on this concept have flourished. As VM develops in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), a lacuna emerges in terms of the studies in attitude of employees towards VM in SMEs. This paper seeks to address this shortcoming and also form the basis for a detailed study. This paper postulates that the virtual employees have positive job attitude than non-virtual employees (in the context of this research virtual employee referred to employees under VM). To address this postulation, a survey was designed to measure the attitude of both non-virtual and virtual employees towards management. A random-number of employees (N=116) comprising non-virtual, partial virtual and virtual employees from SMEs located in Greater Western Sydney (GWS) volunteered to participate in the survey. This Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) reports on the initial findings of the survey. Based on this EDA all three types of employees have positive attitude towards management. The most remarkable finding is that this positive attitude tends to increase as management type shifts from non-virtual to virtual. The research contributes to the currently limited understanding of the attitude of employees towards VM.]]