The main topic of my chosen article is regarding about 'The Effective Leadership of Self-managing Work Teams'. This topic is presented on the week 8 and 10 in our unit guide with the title 'Individuals and Groups' and "Leadership". In the textbook this topic is presented in the chapter 14 and chapter 16 which come from part 5 'Leading'.
Referring to the article, the main arguments presented by the authors is that external leader behaviours do support to the self-managing work team success. Their objective is also to increase the understanding of the role of external leader who is the leader to whom a team reports to. Self-managing work team are natural work groups where they work together to perform a task. They take on management into their works where each of them performs as a supervisors and managers. According to the article, leading a team that manages itself will need a distinctive approach of leadership.
They carry out more responsible with more complex and demanding roles than the traditional team leadership. For the traditional team leadership they are more expected to lead by monitoring and managing those teams while the external leaders are expected to lead by monitoring and managing back to their teams. Subsequently, boundary spanning activities where external leader need to interact with various organisations who supply the team with resources and support is very essential to determine their success in that role. (Druskat and Wheeler, 2003: 435; Robbins, Bergman, Stagg and Coulter, 2003: 737)
In order to be effective leader in the self-managing work teams which is also known as self-directed work teams, they must know how to influence a team and others in an organisation. For instance, their ability to persuade their team members to listen, talk and accept advice will be much...
Effective Leadership
Thanks for using internal citations but you need a bibliography also. Yours is an informative discussion of self-managing work teams. I'm a big fan of self-directed work teams which have been shown in practice to have many positive benefits. A democratic work place is not only more fair and open, but also it seems more productive. Workers want to be involved and worthwhile improvements can be implemented if their suggestions are heeded. I have never agreed with those who view most workers as basically lazy. Rather than wanting merely to do only enough to get by, most workers want to make valuable contributions. Effective leadership is about providing the necessary guidance which allows subordinates to excel.
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