chapter 12 Team leadership

what are the the factors needed for a collaborative climate and for effective group norms

Develop trusting relationships bases on honesty, openness, consistency, and respect, and an atmosphere that fosters collaboration

Compare early research on teams to more contemporary studies and explain the differences in approach.

Early research just focused on the result outcome of team performance and was worried about benchmarking success and continuous improvements. Now the focus is on fostering trusting, bonding and planning with in the group. More focus is also put on team leadership and its effect on the overall team and how it operates. Traditional leadership approaches do not explain how leaders develop their teams.

How should leaders decide on the best timing of a leadership intervention.

For internal or internal relations the leader should intervene if there is conflict between team members or if the goal is unclear. For external environment dynamics if the organization is not providing the proper support that the team needs

Explain the skills leaders must have to meet diverse team needs

Goal focusing, Structuring for results, facilitating decision making, training team members in task skills, maintaining standards of excellence

how could a team leader use the Team Leadership Model to make decisions and take actions.

It provides a cognitive map to identify group needs and offers suggestions about how to make appropriate corrective actions, and helps leaders make sense of the complexity of the group and offers suggestions based on theory and research.

What are criticisms of team leadership theory?

Model is incomplete. Additional skills might be needed, may not be practical because the model is complex and doesn't provide easy answers to difficult questions, doesn't consider teams that have distributed leadership

According to Hill what is the leaders job in managing a team?

Monitor the team and then take whatever action is necessary to ensure team effectiveness

what are the skills or behaviors needed for an External Team

Networking and forming alliances, advocation and representing team to environment, negotiating upward to secure necessary resources, support, and recognition for the team, buffering team members from distraction, assessing environmental indicators of teams effectiveness, and sharing relevant outside information with the eam

What are strengths of team leadership theory

Provides to what constitutes excellent teams, provides a cognitive guide that assists leaders in designing and maintaining effective teams, recognizes the changing roles of leaders and followers in organizations, can be used as a tool in group leader selection

what are the five criteria for team effectiveness identified by Hackman and Walton

clear and engaging direction, enabling structure, enabling context, adequate material resources, and expert coaching

what are the skills or behaviors needed for an Internal relational issue

coaching team members on interpersonal skills, collaborating (including, involving), managing conflict and power issues, building commitment (being optimistic, rewarding), satisfying individual members needs, modeling ethical and principled practices (fair)

what are the skills or behaviors needed for an internal task issue

goal focusing, structuring for results (planning, visioning), facilitating decision making (informing, controlling, coordinating), training team members in task skills, maintaining standards of excellence.

What is distributed leadership and why has it garnered scholars' attention?

it involves the sharing of influence by team members who step forward when situations warrant providing the leadership necessary and then stepping back to allow others to lead. Such shared leadership has become more and more important in today's organizations to allow faster responses to more complex issues, it has shown to led to greater productivity a more effective use of resources and better decision and problem solving

How does a team-centric approach to conceptualizing leader-team interactions differ from a leader-centric approach?

A leader- centric is where the leader is the head of it all making all decisions and ruling over the group where an team-centric approach is where the leader just monitors and takes action if need be to ensure team effectiveness

what are qualities need to be a competent team member

Ability to do the job well and problem solving abilities. Should be composed of the right number an mix of people to accomplish the task. Members need sufficient information education and training on the project

what are the 8 characteristics identified by Larson and LaFasto to ensure team effectivness?

Clear elevating goal, results driven structure, competent team members, unified commitment, collaborative climate, standards of excellence, external support and recognition, principal leadership

what are the four sets of processes influencing the team's effectiveness.

Cognitive - Facilitates team's understanding of problems confronting them Motivational - Helps team become cohesive & capable by setting high performance standards & helping team to achieve them Affective - Assists team in handling stressful circumstances by providing clear goals, assignments, & strategies Integrative - Helps coordinate team's activities through matching member roles, clear performance strategies, feedback, & adapting to environmental changes