The development of information systems is a difficult process that often ends in failing to meet the project’s initial goals. Typical outcomes for information systems development projects include delivering promised products & services on time and within budget. These pressures are now compounded by the use of virtual teams that present a new set of challenges related to the cohesion, organizat...

This chapter looks at leadership and management of multidisciplinary teams in the mental health context. It provides an overview of what constitutes a multidisciplinary team and how policy can change the roles and relationships in teams. The potential conflict inherent in teamwork is outlined. A brief overview of leadership styles is provided, with a more detailed description of the relationshi...

Fostering team innovation is increasingly an important leadership function. However, the empirical evidence for the role of transformational leadership in engendering team innovation is scarce and mixed. To address this issue, the authors link transformational leadership theory to principles of M. A. West's (1990) team climate theory and propose an integrated model for the relationship between ...

Editor: M. Mumford Departing from the functional leadership model, we propose a team leadership training model as a way to improve the performance of leadership functions and foster team effectiveness. Based on a longitudinal quasi-experimental study involving ninety 6-person teams, 45 trained leaderswere compared to 45 untrained leaders at two points in time: before the intervention group was ...

A multilevel model of leadership, empowerment, and performance was tested using a sample of 62 teams, 445 individual members, 62 team leaders, and 31 external managers from 31 stores of a Fortune 500 company. Leader-member exchange and leadership climate related differently to individual and team empowerment and interacted to influence individual empowerment. Also, several relationships were su...

The research reported in this paper was designed to study the influence of shared servant leadership on team performance through the mediating effect of team behavioral integration, while validating a new short measure of shared servant leadership. A round-robin approach was used to collect data in two similar studies. Study 1 included 244 undergraduate students in 61 teams following an intense...

The movement toward accountable care organizations and patient-centered medical homes will increase with implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The ACA will therefore give further impetus to the growing importance of teams in health care. Teams typically involve 2 or more people embedded in a larger social system who differentiate their roles, share common goals, interact with each ot...

Teams have been identified as the vehicle for learning in organizations. However, little is known about the factors that enable teams to learn. From an applied perspective, leadership constitutes a very relevant ingredient. This study is a first step in building up this theory by focusing on the role of shared leadership in team learning. We present data from an exploratory observatory study on...

INTRODUCTION The field of organizational behavior defines leadership as " the ability to influence a group toward the achievement of goals " (Capella, 2005, p. 294). Leadership styles have been well studied and researched. Early leadership studies were developed using traditional, co-located work arrangements in mind. Later studies expanded to include traditional project team environments. In t...

Once the service satisfaction of medical personnel is reduced and the enthusiasm cannot be acquired from work, the turnover rate would be increased to further affect medical manpower. Not only is the quality of services influenced, but patient safety would also be seriously affected further to harm the operation of a hospital. Aiming at Kaohsiung Municipal Min-Sheng Hospital, the medical person...