Leadership

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Leadership

• Chapter 10

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Alternative Designs of Leadership for Teams

• Characteristics of Team Leadership
• Types of Leaders
• Leaderless groups
• Assigned by organizations
• Select by teams
• Self managing teams
• Distribution of Leadership Roles
• Star Structure
• Rotation
• Leader Power

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Alternative Designs of Leadership for Teams

• Leader Emergence
• Leaders tend to be
• Taller
• Older
• Men
• Babble effect
• Leader prototype theory

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Approaches to Leadership

• Overview

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Approaches to Leadership

• Trait or Personality Approach
• Good leaders have a certain set of
  characteristics
• Problem different leaders need different traits
• Behavioral Approach
• Leadership is a set of appropriate behaviors
• Decision making style
• Task versus social focus
• Authoritarian versus democratic style
• Leader-member exchange model

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Approaches to Leadership

• Situational Approach
• Characteristics of
• Employees
• Jobs
• Organizations
• Contingency Approach
• Combine traits and situation
• Multiple Linkage Model

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Situational Leadership Theory

• Adjust leadership style relative to readiness of
  group
• Leadership should promote group readiness

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Self-Managing Teams

• Shift responsibility to team members
• Empowers employees

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Self-Managing Teams

• Leading Self-Managing Teams
• External leader
• Coaching, support, motivation
• Motivating Self-Managing Teams
• Actions of team members
• Monitoring, coordinating, motivating
• Normative and rational approaches
• Overlap or substitute to motivate teams
• Combination more effective to motivate individual
  performance
• Team cohesion

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Self-Managing Teams

• Success of Self-Managing Teams
• Production/service better suited than
  professional and project teams
• Cross training
• Clear performance measures
• Less competitive
• Emphasis on social relations
• Ability to become self-managing
• Routine tasks
• Clear goals
• Experience in task performance
• Teamwork experience

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Application The Functional Approach to Leading
Teams

• Problem solving approach to dealing with the
  problems that teams face
• Three core leadership functions
• Setting the direction for the team
• Managing the teams operations
• Developing the teams leadership abilities
• Focus of team leader depends on situation and
  maturity of team

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Application The Functional Approach to Leading
Teams

• Providing a Context for Teams
• Supportive Context
• Direction
• Facilitative Group Structure
• External Relations
• Facilitating Internal Operations
• Cognitive
• Motivational
• Affective
• Coordination processes

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Application The Functional Approach to Leading
Teams

• Team Coaching
• Improve coordination and performance by providing
  guidance to the team
• Motivational
• Minimize social loafing, increase team commitment
• Consultative
• Improve performance and coordination
• Educational
• Build knowledge, skills, abilities

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