Leadership and Ethical Behavior | Essay

Running head: LEADERSHIP AND ETHICAL BEHAVIOUR
LEADERSHIP AND ETHICAL BEHAVIOUR
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LEADERSHIP AND ETHICAL BEHAVIOUR
Groups and teams are integral part of any organization. Without interaction and
flow of information between individuals, the proper functioning of any organization becomes
extremely difficult. Organisations benefit from the ability to manage and build teams. There are
different leadership styles that are needed to manage a group and a team. The aim of this essay is
to define the distinctive characteristics of a group and a team and leadership attributes needed to
deal with them.
A group is defined as a collection of individuals that interact independently and are
brought in together by the organisation or to meet certain social needs (Reimer, Russell and
Ronald 2017). In an organization, a group interacts chiefly to share information and make
decisions to help each other deal with their responsibilities to achieve a common goal. The
members however, perform their tasks independently and are not held accountable for the poor
performance of the other member of the group. Two kinds of groups are formal and informal.
Formal groups are formed by the manager of an organisation to achieve a specific task while
informal group form naturally to meet the social and psychological needs of the members
working in the organisation.
A team is a gathering of individuals in an organisation to achieve a specific common goal
however, the members hold collective accountability. The members just not share the
information; they share the task responsibility and the outcomes. The team members have a
mutual understanding within themselves, which helps them to work according to the strengths
and weakness of the team. There are three main features of functioning in a team: cohesion,
collaboration and confrontation.
They are similar in their features because of the number of people involved and their
objective to achieve a common goal. However, there are distinctive differences in the features of