Introduction
Teams are prevalent in today’s organizations. Very few weeks pass without the majority of employees spending time in collective effort. As today’s knowledge workers are often involved in complex tasks that require multiple areas of expertise and intelligence, the use of teams has become inevitable in the workplace. Several studies have also demonstrated that the collective decisions are better than individual decisions. Organizations may choose different types of teams, such as project teams, virtual teams, cross-functional teams, or self-managed teams, depending on their needs and goals (Meyer 2015).
As teams have evolved, so too has team leadership. When teams have appointed leaders, often at the managerial level, these leaders may share leadership with members or take on a facilitative leader role. Other teams may be led internally by the members. This way of working requires...
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Song, J.H., Jeong, S., Kolb, J.A. (2016). Team Leadership. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3025-1
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