Building Cohesive Teams—The Role of Leaders’ Bottom-Line Mentality and Behavior

Team cohesiveness plays a crucial role in effective teamwork, innovation, and improved performance, as such, its development among team members is an essential part of management. However, it may be disregarded by leaders with high bottom-line mentality (BLM; single-minded focus on the bottom line at expense other values or priorities). These show little interest priorities, such ethical, social, environmental considerations, tempted to push their followers go above beyond what expected, even if means bending rules, cutting corners, engaging ethically problematic behaviors. We argue that although leader’s BLM motivate come together around pursuit common goal, nurturing healthy interpersonal relationships, trust, important social resources within team. Specifically, we way approach goals affect cohesiveness, particularly negative for female leaders. Using large multi-national study, found this happens through increased directive lowered participative leader