By bringing team members with different cultural backgrounds together, teams in international business can benefit from diversity and reach higher levels of performance. Cultural also brings challenges, however, research has identified the need to consider moderating influences diversity–performance relationship. Team leadership should be particularly important this respect drawing on a theoret...

Leadership has been found to be linked with team innovation. Based on social information processing theory and substitutes for leadership theory, this paper examines the influence of leader humility on team innovation. Results from 90 teams showed that leader humility will enhance team innovation by fostering team voice climate. Further, task interdependence substitutes the effect of leader hum...

One of the dimensions of work that is not well known in training is teamwork and the work of the team leader. The team leader is the personne who provides local supervision. Teachers and trainers, as well as business employers aknowledge the place and importance of teamwork and the role of the team leader. However, most consider themselves, insufficiently prepared to offer training in line with...

In this study, we evaluate the role of leader charisma in fostering positive affective team climate and preventing negative affective climate. The analysis of a longitudinal database of 137 bank branches by means of hierarchical moderated regression shows that leader charisma has a stronger effect on team optimism than on team tension. In addition, the leader's influence and the frequency of le...

The present study aims to explore the effect of leader proactive personality on team outcomes and the moderating role of subordinate seeking resources behavior. Using a sample of 53 work teams from a Chinese pharmaceutical sales company, we found that when the level of subordinate seeking resources is low, leader proactive personality increases team-level exhaustion, which in turn is negatively...

While previous research has identified group identification as an important factor in affecting relevant outcomes (e.g., satisfaction, turnover, commitment) in face-to face environments, this paper provides initial evidence to support the proposition that group identification also matters in virtual environments. In particular, the authors found that team members’ perceptions of the leader-memb...

Leader ship versus Management : Although some managers are able to influence followers to work toward the achievement of organizational goals, the conferring of formal authority upon a manager does not necessarily make that individual a leader. Yes, that individual has authority, but whether or not they are able to influence their subordinates may depend on more that just that authority. Not al...

objectives : to determine the correlation between the success rates of the cardiopulmonary cerebral resuscitation (cpcr) and the team’s leader education and skill level in shiraz, southern iran. m e th o d: this cross-sectional study was conducted during a 6-month period from october 2007 to march 2008 in nemazee hospital of shiraz. we included all the patients who underwent cpcr due to cardiop...

Virtual teams are an important work structure in software development projects. However, little is known about what constitutes effective virtual software team leadership, in particular, the amount of leader delegation that is appropriate in a virtual software-development environment. This study investigates virtual software team leader delegation and explores the impact of delegation strategie...

Abstract The concept of implicit organizational timetables suggests that leaders are expected to be older than their followers. However, increased age diversity in the workforce has led situations which this is not case. Expanding on core tenets leader categorization theory, present study establishes an age-prototypical team characterized by relative followers and explores how prototypicality i...