Using a manufacturing setting that is organized into self-managed teams, the current study identified and measured key leadership behaviors within the teams. Questions that were asked include: are some team leadership behaviors more critical to a team's level of functioning than other behaviors? and do successful self-managed teams rely on formal leadership to a lesser extent than members of less successful teams? These questions were asked in the context of leadership as a process, not an individual.

A model was developed that explores several personal characteristic of individuals as predictors of their motivation to lead. Stable personality traits were hypothesized to interact with an individual's belief in the nature of effective leadership to differentially predict the level of their leadership aspirations. The use of a team laboratory design allowed for an examination of the causal nature of an individual‘s motivation to lead. An appointed team leader led their four-person team in a performance task with high levels of interdependence to examine the leader's impact on teamwork. Team leaders were rated by multiple sources during the task on directive leadership, empowering leadership, and laissez-faire leadership. Several significant relationships between personality and motivation to lead were found that lend support to earlier research on the antecedents to motivation to lead, although no moderating effects were uncovered. Leadership behaviors were differentially related to increases in team processes, and demonstrated strong associations with satisfaction with the leader, and leadership potential. Results indicated that team leaders who do not calculate the personal costs of leadership may be unable to positively influence team action processes. This study has implications for functional leadership theory, the development of the motivation to lead construct, and trait perspectives of leadership.

The study was specifically designed to explore the leadership density in selected secondary schools by examining how leadership at the middle tier is conceived and implemented. This focus was predicated on the increasing demand to acknowledge the layers of leadership that exists in schools. Additionally, there is a growing need to direct attention to this tier by building their leadership capacities as the expectations regarding accountability in the educational system increases. In pursuing this investigation, a qualitative research design was used and therefore the main data collection tool was in depth semi-structured interviews. In addition, a ranking activity was done by the respondents as well as observations and review of documents were also included in the data gathering procedures. These tools while providing rich data, also served an integral function of triangulation. This provision was made possible from respondents drawn from a pool of middle managers in selected secondary schools using purposive sampling. The data revealed that both categories of middle managers saw their roles as very important to the effectiveness of the organization. Their significance was supported by the principals of the schools in which the middle managers operate. While middle managers expressed their understanding of some fundamental leadership practices through the ranking activity, the evidence of alignment in their conversations about their own practices reflected gaps between their beliefs and the description of their practices. The data further revealed that variation was evident in the conceptualization and implementation of leadership practices within and across the schools. Clear identification of a sustained plan for leadership development for the team members led by the middle managers was not easily detected. This was not surprising as it was clear that middle managers were not exposed to a preparation program to transition from classroom teacher to middle manager. Keywords: leadership practices, middle managers ’practice, and team leadership. / Educational Leadership

In this study, we explored the antecedents, consequences, and boundaries of team effectiveness and organizational performance. Specifically, we examined the relationship between team leadership and team effectiveness, and the relationships between team and organizational performance. We collected data from 15 ocean vessel teams and four executive & middle-level managers. The results showed that both team climate and team leaderships had a positive effect on team effectiveness. In addition, team effectiveness was positively related to organizational performance.

Abstract Teams, like companies, are going global. As Davision and Ward (1999) note, global teams are necessary for creating a company¡¦s ¡§sustainable global capability¡¨. The increasing complexities of scientific, sociological, and commercial issues demand that people from different cultural backgrounds and different nations collaborate in order to resolve global problems creatively and take advantage of global opportunities. Yet, global teams often face more challenges than collocated teams due to the nature of diversity. Thus, our research is aimed to study how the global team leaders lead to deal with the difference of cultural background, barrier of language, potential conflict etc., and still make a great teamwork. To reach the objective, the research adopts a case study method and takes the interviews with 8 global teams in Taiwan, and three members for each team, including a team leader and members from different countries. After data gathering and analysis, we generate 11 propositions.

ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness & influence of paternalistic leadership on top management team. Finally, we want to understand which element of the paternalistic leadership has effective influence on echelon team effectiveness. And the adaptability of paternalistic leadership model on echelon team leading. This study is according to 840 effective cases from 120 echelon teams belong to primary schools in the country, installed 6 team members completely. It is adopted SPSS FOR WINDOWS as the tool for sampling data in descriptive statistic and examination the correlated coefficient Cronbach¡¦s £\ of all variables. Relativity analysis is used to analyze the relationship among all variables. Block regression analysis is used to examine the predictability of team effectiveness in each element of paternalistic leadership and the paternalistic leadership model. The results are present in below. 1. The elements, benevolence and moral, have significantly positive prediction on echelon team effectiveness, including team performance, team commitment, team cooperation & leading satisfaction . 2. The authoritarianism has significantly negative expectation on echelon team effectiveness excluding team performance. 3. The paternalistic leadership model has significantly prediction on echelon team effectiveness. 4. In paternalistic leadership model, authoritarianism hasn¡¦t negative reaction on team performance & team commitment. Keywords: team leadership, paternalistic leadership, echelon team, team effectiveness

Under the impact of the trend of globalization, enterprises face a more complicated and competitive external business environment than before. For the reason, the organization has to find out a business model which can react to any change in the environment and the market and which can reduce cost and establish a humungous niche. In such a background, an advanced information technology and an Internet communication application conjoin with the organizational demand; therefore, Virtual Team, a new type of teamwork system, is brought forth. Whether a team is virtual or traditional, it doubtlessly consists of people; however, without mutual-cooperation, the group cannot work efficiently and is arduous to accomplish a target. Apparently, there are various factors influencing the efficiency of a team. Among them, the most critical factors are leadership and team process. This study is to discuss what types of leadership should adopt to make their members cohere and then to be a competent company. The questionnaire of Virtual Team was sampled from the groups related to Information. Firstly, the author referred to the related documents to find out the factors connected to leadership versus a team, and then interviewed six managers experienced at Virtual Team to distinguish the relationships from factors. The author, furthermore, built a research framework and analyzed it in Partial Least Square. The result demonstrates that an increase on the members¡¦ participation and humanistic leadership make positive impacts on the team process of Virtual Team including communication & interaction, cooperation and conflict reconciliation. The team process, moreover, is the critical factor to affecting team efficiency.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of team leadership on team value and how team leadership passes through team value to affect team effectiveness. Finally,we want to understand the relative influence of transactional leadership and transformational leadership on team effectiveness and team value. This study has adopted SPSS FOR WINDOWS as the tool for ststistical analysis.For sampling data in descriptive statistics and examine the correlated coefficient Cronbach¡¦s £\ of all variables.Relativity analysis is used to examine the relationship of all variables.Block regression analysis is used to examine the predictability of team effectiveness in relation to team leadership and teem value,and the predictability of team value in relation to team leadership. Major findings include the following¡G 1. Transactional leadership and transformational leadership have significant influence on team value. 2. The intermediate effect of team value between team leadership and team effectiveness is not very strong. 3. The predictability of team effectiveness in relation to transformational leadership is better than the predictability of team effectiveness in relation to transactional leadership. 4. The predictability of team value in relation to transformational leadership is better than the predictability of team value in relation to transactional leadership.

The purpose of this study is to explore leadership and interprofessional team learning in well-established specialist teams in an academic health care organization. It also illuminates the data with more precise team leadership theories to help advance interprofessional health care practice. Employing an interactionist ethnographic approach, the study focuses on exploring team leaders’ role, their perceptions, meanings, and behaviours within the culture of two teams in the department of nephrology in an academic health care organization. Qualitative data derived from interviews, observations, and documents were gathered over a two-year period to obtain a comprehensive understanding of the workings of the teams. The research is also informed by the experiences of the researcher who had been a member of the department of nephrology under study. Data analysis involved an inductive thematic analysis of observations, reflections, and interview transcripts. The three broad themes of this dissertation reflect the characteristics and activities of leaders of team learning: first, situational team leadership, as a process, affects the social context of interprofessional team-learning relationships, interactions, and activities within the complex culture of an academic health care organization. Second, team learning embodies the collective praxis of its members. The members inform the role of leading learning through the social construction of meaning in dialogue and their reflective practices. Third, effective team leadership ensures the transfer of collective knowledge to students and trainees. Effective leaders also help team members deal with the challenge of learning how to work within a well-established, specialized health care team as community of practice. Such a team has special capabilities that enable interprofessional team learning. Hence, a leader who learns how to use team learning to create new and collective knowledge will be able to create a learning experience for students, trainees, and team members who are focused on interprofessional practice and care. This study offers a contribution to the interprofessional education literature in two ways. First, the study’s use of theoretical perspectives provides new ways of thinking about leaders and learning in interprofessional communities of practice. Second, the study provides a rare empirical in-depth account of, interprofessional team leadership within well-established specialized teams in an academic health care organization.

The purpose of this study is to explore leadership and interprofessional team learning in well-established specialist teams in an academic health care organization. It also illuminates the data with more precise team leadership theories to help advance interprofessional health care practice. Employing an interactionist ethnographic approach, the study focuses on exploring team leaders’ role, their perceptions, meanings, and behaviours within the culture of two teams in the department of nephrology in an academic health care organization. Qualitative data derived from interviews, observations, and documents were gathered over a two-year period to obtain a comprehensive understanding of the workings of the teams. The research is also informed by the experiences of the researcher who had been a member of the department of nephrology under study. Data analysis involved an inductive thematic analysis of observations, reflections, and interview transcripts. The three broad themes of this dissertation reflect the characteristics and activities of leaders of team learning: first, situational team leadership, as a process, affects the social context of interprofessional team-learning relationships, interactions, and activities within the complex culture of an academic health care organization. Second, team learning embodies the collective praxis of its members. The members inform the role of leading learning through the social construction of meaning in dialogue and their reflective practices. Third, effective team leadership ensures the transfer of collective knowledge to students and trainees. Effective leaders also help team members deal with the challenge of learning how to work within a well-established, specialized health care team as community of practice. Such a team has special capabilities that enable interprofessional team learning. Hence, a leader who learns how to use team learning to create new and collective knowledge will be able to create a learning experience for students, trainees, and team members who are focused on interprofessional practice and care. This study offers a contribution to the interprofessional education literature in two ways. First, the study’s use of theoretical perspectives provides new ways of thinking about leaders and learning in interprofessional communities of practice. Second, the study provides a rare empirical in-depth account of, interprofessional team leadership within well-established specialized teams in an academic health care organization.