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Team Leadership

Definition

"The enactment of the affective, cognitive, and behavioral processes needed to facilitate performance management." (Bryman et al., 2011, p. 338)

Key References

  • Zaccaro, S. J., Rittman, A. L., & Marks, M. A. (2001). Team leadership. The Leadership Quarterly, 12(4), 451–483. https://doi.org/10.1016/s1048-9843(01)00093-5
    • Focused on team leadership dynamics through a functional leadership approach.
    • Developed a number of guiding propositons regarding the influential relationship between leadership and team processes.
  • Horner, M. (1997). Leadership theory: Past, present and future. Team Performance Management: An International Journal, 3(4), 270–287. https://doi.org/10.1108/13527599710195402
    • Explored how the various theories of team leadership have changed over time.
    • Discussed various trends and changes over time as well as characteristics of succesful leadership.
  • Kozlowski, S. W. J., Gully, S. M., Salas, E., & Cannon-Bowers, J. A. (1996). Team leadership and development: Theory, principles, and guidelines for training leaders and teams. In M. M. Beyerlein, D. A. Johnson, & S. T. Beyerlein (Eds.), Advances in interdisciplinary studies of work teams: Team leadership, Vol. 3, pp. 253–291). Elsevier Science/JAI Press.
    • Presented a theoretical framework of two dynamic aspects of team leadership and specified guidelines of leadership behavior capabilities.

Key Measurements

  • Arnold et al., 2000: The empowering leadership questionnaire

Recent Articles

  • Hoch, J. E., Pearce, C. L., & Welzel, L. (2010). Is the most effective team leadership shared? Journal of Personnel Psychology, 9(3), 105–116. https://doi.org/10.1027/1866-5888/a000020
    • Examined moderating effects on the relationship between shared leadership and team performance.
    • Found that shared leadership was a predictor of team performance and both aspects are positively related when age diversity and coordination are low.
  • Gupta, V. K., Huang, R., & Niranjan, S. (2010). A longitudinal examination of the relationship between team leadership and performance. Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies, 17(4), 335–350. https://doi.org/10.1177/1548051809359184
    • Adopted a dynamic approach to advance scholarly knowledge of team leadership by examining the impact of team leadership on performance in a longitudinal study.
  • Klein, K. J., Knight, A. P., Ziegert, J. C., Lim, B. C., & Saltz, J. L. (2011). When team members’ values differ: The moderating role of team leadership. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 114(1), 25–36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2010.08.004
    • Integrated theory and research on values, diversity, situational strength, and team leadership.
    • Found significant and opposite moderating effects of task-focused and person-focused leadership.