Abstract
Globalisation has forced organisations to restructure their views on employment and how jobs are undertaken. This explains why organisations have become more dependent on teams to complete the different demands. In the current job market, employers are increasingly looking for employees who are able to work in teams and, ultimately, who have leadership abilities. But this does not necessarily mean that groups are better than individuals in making decisions. In this chapter, we discuss under which circumstances individuals are better than teams at making decisions, and which factors contribute to increasing the quality of group decision-making, and what is the role of leaders in this process—how they emerge within groups and how leaders can be effective in order to achieve organisational goals.
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Morais, C., Randsley de Moura, G. (2018). An Introduction to Decision-Making and Leadership in Groups. In: The Psychology of Ethical Leadership in Organisations. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02324-9_1
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