L6: Leadership in Teams Flashcards
What is team leadership?
process of team need satisfaction in the service of enhancing team effectiveness
Why is team leadership relevant?
- leaders are everywhere
- its popular for businesses & academia
- its the most important ingredient of team effectiveness
whats the difference between IPO and IMOI model?
IPO: input - process - output
IMPOI: input - mediator (processes or emergent states) - output - input
- IMOI replaces processes w mediator. some processes are actually emergent states (ie a team property that comes into being because of group interaction/collaboration)
- IMOI suggests a cyclical patterns. outputs can become inputs for teams
What is the position of team leadership in IMOI models?
its both an input & an emergent state (mediator)
how is team work actually a team performance cycle?
teamwork =
- recurring cycles of mutually dependent interaction
- goal directed activites
what are the 2 phases of a team performance cycle?
- transition phase: evaluate and plan activities for goal attainment
- action phase: engage in activities that help goal accomplishment
what are the needs during the action phase of team performance?
- monitoring output, resources, and stakeholders
- changing conditions
- managing boundary spanning
what are the needs during the transition phase of team performance?
- outlining objectives
- setting goals & a strategy
- developing shared mental models & transactive memory
who is seen as leader in teams?
whoever contributes to team need satisfaction
what should be the sources of different leadership functions?
if u need a leader to
- compose team: it should be external locus, formal leader
- structure & plan: internal locus
- provide feedback: any
- perform team task: internal locus
what factors predict who will emerge as a leader?
- personality (dominance, masculinity, extraversion, conscientiousness, openness to experience, narcissism)
- diffuse status characteristics (gender, height)
- specific status characteristics (expertise ont ask)
- prototypicality (similarity to members in group & similarity to leadership prototype)
- emotional intelligence (over personality & IQ)
define shared leadership
an emergent team property which results from the distribution of leadership influence across multiple memebrs
measured through the density of teams internal leadership networks
high density: many team members rate many of their peers as leaders
what 2 activities are necessary for shared leadership to emerge in a team?
- members of a team must offer leadership & seek to influence the direction, motivation, and support of the group
- the team must be willing to rely on leadership by multiple team members
what are the takeaways of Carson et al study on shared leadership in teams?
- shared leadership is good for team performance
- internal team environment & external team supportive coaching important for dev of shared leadership
- teams w an unsupportive internal team environment were also able to dev shared leadership when they received external supportive coaching
what are the effects of different leadership styles?
- depends on the context, multiple types can be effective!
- leader style should match the situation/context
in what context is transactional leadership best fit?
structured tasks, regular job performance context
in what context is transformational leadership best fit?
unstructured tasks, innovation, stressful situations, cultural context, high power distance & collectivism
What did Purvanova research about transformational leaderships?
2 RQs
RQ1: do leaders use less TL in virtual teams than in f2f teams?
RQ2: is TL more strongly associated w team performance & project satisfaction in virtual than f2f teams?
What were the results of Purvanova’s research on Transformational leadership?
- no differences in f2f vs virtual for TL composite score: so leaders use TL equally in virtual teams than in f2f teams
- no f2f vs virtual differences for inspirational motivation or idealized influence
- BUT, as predicted, higher intellectual stimulation & individual consideration in f2f than virtual teams
- also leaders do vary their behaviour across different team contexts (so the same leader can be more or less TL in virtual vs f2f settings)
what leadership style works best for groups with subgroup categorization & intergroup bias?
person focused leadership
what is person focused leadership?
Facilitating team member relationships, social interactions and/or development (e.g., supportive leadership, concern for subordinates, individualized consideration)
what is task focused leadership?
Facilitating task accomplishment (e.g., offering structure when accomplishing tasks, directive behaviors, performance feedback)
why does person focused leadership help teams that experience intergroup bias?
characteristics of this kind of team: conflict, distrust, disliking etc
person focused leader can counteract these by
- encouraging re-categorization
- encouraging de-categorization
- reducing identity threat
= complementary matching
how can leaders predict what diversity related process may become dominant?
requires cognitive understanding: possessing (complex) knowledge structures pertaining to diversity
some of the cues leaders can use: diversity constellation, reward structure
