Leadership and Teamwork in Organizational Behavior

This report discusses the importance of leadership and teamwork in organizational behavior, exploring traditional and modern approaches. It highlights the benefits of teamwork in achieving common goals and the different types of teams used in organizations. The report also delves into the role of leadership in influencing behavior and driving organizational effectiveness.

ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR

Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................2
Leadership and teamwork.....................................................................................................................2
Conclusion.............................................................................................................................................8
Work citied..........................................................................................................................................10

Introduction
This report brings out a discussion on leadership and teamwork. Leadership is a way to
influence the behaviour of people in such a way that it induces them to achieve the
organisational goals (Soraperra, Ivan, et al,. 15). It is both theoretical and practical approach
through which it can emphasize on the capability of the organisation in order to lead and
guide individual or the entire organisation. An effective leader creates an inspiring idea and
vision of the future, motives, and ultimately inspires people to engage in that vision (Griffin,
Phillips, & Gully, 150). The discussion carries a difference analysis on traditional and
modern leadership. Traditional leadership enforces the work to be done by the employees to
achieve the goals. Whereas, modern leadership emphasises on greater involvement of each
subordinate (Ghasabeh, Mostafa Sayyadi, Soosay, and Reaiche et al., 467). Another topic on
which, the discussion carries teamwork is key to success where it is a group of people with
complementary skills and working together in order to achieve common vision (Soraperra,
Ivan, et al,. 15). A team can generate greater sum of performance rather than working
individually. The report is based on the discussion on teamwork where there are diverse
people with diverse qualities that help the company to create new ideas (Griffin, Phillips, &
Gully, 150).
Leadership and teamwork
Independent collection of two or more individuals who generally share same objectives and
accountability for the team as well as their outcomes. The significance of any of the team
member can nor refused even if the task grow more difficult, needs greater coordination
between the people, feedback and the reciprocal communication (Ghasabeh, Mostafa
Sayyadi, Soosay, and Reaiche et al., 467). It is not necessary that every group is a team but
every team is a group. In order to execute a tasks and goals, it has been recognised that

organisations often uses various kinds of teams. Each kind of team is composed of various
members who have the skills in different areas. Every king of team is made up to execute a
different set of goals where it is identified that each team member have at least one goal in
common. Commonly, the members of a functional team start from the same department or
the functional area. On the other hand, cross-functional teams have those members who
belong to different department of functions (Soraperra, Ivan, et al,. 15). For example- IDEO,
which is a product innovation, which believes that interdisciplinary teamwork, are the two
booster of innovation and creativity. It is observed that cross-functional teams can bring
diverse workforce (Körner, Mirjam, et al., 28). This team aims to improve organisation`s
ability to solve the complex problems by engaging those people who have diverse set of
skills. Other more types of teams are problem-solving team, self-directed team, venture
teams, and global teams. Problem-solving team is a team that is built to solve the issues and
problems and finally improve the actions at work. This signifies that it is important to place
employees at their best place so that they can achieve expertise in order to solve the problem
(Scholl, Wolfgang. 136). For instance- JM Huber and Colgate who are prominently known as
raw material suppliers that are jointly assembled as a multidisciplinary team so that it can
identify things to reduce the cost (Ghasabeh, Mostafa Sayyadi, Soosay, and Reaiche et al.,
467). Quality circles and test exist for longer time but suggestion teams are temporary so that
it can address the issue. It increases the efficiency of the team when the organisation have
another outside team to solve problems. Self-directed teams set their objectives and pursue
them in and a way decided by the team (Ghasabeh, Mostafa Sayyadi, Soosay, and Reaiche et
al., 467). In these teams, team members are responsible for such tasks that are reserved by the
team leader. It is more often that self-directed team works in smaller groups even at 3 am and
carry a discussion on improvements in goods and services when increasing customer
responsiveness, increasing the productivity, lowering of the operating costs, and decreasing

time (Soraperra, Ivan, et al,. 15). These teams often promises improvement in the products
and services in relation to their innovation, flexibility, and creativity (Ghasabeh, Mostafa
Sayyadi, Soosay, and Reaiche et al., 467). Venture teams are the teams who operate semi
autonomously in order to create new products and services (Körner, Mirjam, et al., 28). This
requires product development teams, separation team from the formal structure and also from
the rest of the organisation so that it can enhance innovativeness and speeding up the cycle
time. Virtual teams are the teams, which are geographically dispersed and often communicate
through internet or other informational technologies. Works together for a contractual
purpose. For instance- PWC is one of the largest accounting organisations in 148 countries
and employs 130000 employees’ uses the concept of virtual teams (Soraperra, Ivan, et al,.
15). These teams bring employees form the globe altogether for a week or two in order to
execute a contract. It provides a combination of skills and common vision that further
generates greater performance as compared to outcome and performance of individuals
(Körner, Mirjam, et al., 28). Teamwork complies the skills, ideas, leadership, and
helpfulness. Slow pace of the project momentum will reduce the morale of the individuals.
Celebrating the achievement with the team is more motivating with the teammates that will
boost morale (Ghasabeh, Mostafa Sayyadi, Soosay, and Reaiche et al., 467). Teamwork
enables to accomplish the goals faster with more efficient rather than tackling the projects all
alone. In order to cooperate the actions to achieve goals, it is seen that togetherness reduces
the workload of all employees by empowering them so that they can share responsibilities.
Dissimilarities in the teammates can be happened in the discussion that can lead to conflicts
(Ghasabeh, Mostafa Sayyadi, Soosay, and Reaiche et al., 467). As different people have
different perception, it benefits the organisation to have innovative ideas and if the team
member does not get an opportunity to present their ideas then the team can miss the
opportunity in order to find best resolutions to the issues. Teamwork reduces the workload on

individuals that further allows being the part of assigned roles (Körner, Mirjam, et al., 28).
While sharing the responsibilities and ideas, each employee have a role, which suits his
specialisation. At the same time, team has to consider the capacity of the employee as per his
level of interest that affects the effectiveness and the speed of the output in the process of
accomplishing the goals (Soraperra, Ivan, et al., 14).
The concept of teamwork does not emerge in a day as it can be successful only if provides an
opportunity to build a relationship between employees. Workers constituted in a teamwork on
a project where they feel worth and valued apart from the completion of the tasks (Körner,
Mirjam, et al., 28). It is a situation where everyone gets a chance to contribute to the success
of the organisation by improving the relations between the employees and enhance the
relations in the team. Improvement in the relations and coordination among the employees
can result into greater success that come up with increasing the trust among employees
(Körner, Mirjam, et al., 28).
As everyone has different attributes and qualifications with diverse minds and intelligent
brains (Körner, Mirjam, et al., 28). When all the members work in a team together, they are
able to learn different skills and abilities from the qualities of each other and advance the
knowledge accordingly. Coordinating for a project is another opportunity for new employees
to grab the knowledge at huge level from experienced people (Körner, Mirjam, et al., 28).
Working together can be great as it gives an opportunity to challenge the ideas of one another
and decide a compromising solution, which further contributes to completion of the goals.
Group can avoid mistakes that further improves the reputation and efficiency of team
(Körner, Mirjam, et al., 28).
Leadership is the way that a person influence the behaviour of other people to execute
actions. This is of great importance when it comes to determine the organisational

effectiveness such as shifting from the use of traditional leadership to modern leadership
approaches in terms of influence, power, negotiation, conflict, and politics, which are
important aspects covered in leadership Banks, (George C., et al., 652). From the certain
theories, it can be determined that leadership and management have different functions
(Engelen, Andreas, et al, 1070). Management creates an agenda that plans and budgets to
establish detailed steps in the procedure in order to achieve the required results and allocate
the results (Soraperra, Ivan, et al,. 15). Whereas, establishing direction and creating a vision
for future can lead it to achieve that vision. Leadership aligns people and communicate the
direction to achieve the words with the help of cooperative teams and strategies to help in
producing changes that are needed among the employees (Chuang, Hsun, Susan, Jackson, and
Jiang, 550).
Creating teams and coalitions, which are executed to understand the vision and strategy, will
help to accept the validity (Baker, David et al., 227).
Management includes staffing and organising in order to establish a structure with the people
and create appropriate methods to monitor the implementation program Körner, Mirjam, et
al., 27).
Management controls and solves problem through which it monitors the results with some
details (Engelen, Andreas, et al, 1070). Leadership motivates and inspires people to overcome
and reduce major bureaucratic, political, and other resource barriers that invites certain
changes (Ghasabeh, Mostafa Sayyadi, Soosay, and Reaiche, 465).
This discussion of leadership clearly elaborates the difference between manager and the
leader (Boamah, Sheila et al, 185). For example- in order to execute the plan, a manager will
focus on judging the results, comparing the goals at the same time, finding the deviations, and
finally correcting the differences (Wolfgang, 140).

A leader rely on energising the people in order to overcome bureaucratic problems in order to
reach the objectives (Boamah, Sheila et al, 185). Manager and leader plays an important role
in establishing the morale ethics in the organisation with the help of defined code of conduct
by determining the part of ethics in the culture (Engelen, Andreas, et al, 1090). Aiming to
achieve the ethical balance in the process of discharging leadership duties that require a role
model walk towards fine line through culture. It is important to know the reason of emerging
modern leadership, which is made up of ethical reasoning complied with the rules and
regulations (Hetland, Jørn, et al, 750). In the previous era, it only focused on personal
characteristics, and the traits of the leader. After some time, it shifted to actual leader`s
behaviour (Engelen, Andreas, et al, 1090). Early approaches are trait approach of leadership
highlights a set of different qualities, which distinguish them from other leaders and people
(Rosen, Michael et al., 433).
. Trait theory focused on finding the leadership traits, using the methods to opt leaders, and
developing the appropriate methods in order to measure them (Valentine, Melissa Ingrid
Nembhard, and Amy. Edmondson, 2017). For example- there was an argument that effective
leaders are generally effective than ineffective leaders. Many researchers have tried to prove
that the traits of a leader is marked by particular traits such as self-confidence, honesty,
cognitive ability, and other charisma (Avolio, Bruce et al, 25). Apart from this, people often
believe that some biological factors often affect the validity of the traits. Trait theory also
considers several biological factors, which play a major role in leadership (Hetland, Jørn, et
al., 750).
Behavioural approaches began with the shift in the traits and start looking up to leadership as
a process in which people observe certain process and activity that differentiates effective
leader from non-leaders (Hetland, Jørn, et al, 750). The main goals of behavioural approach is
to determine what behaviour is associated with the effective leadership (Engelen, Andreas, et

al, 1090). Experts say that effective leader have different behaviour that are less effective and
the behaviour of effective leader will remain same in all the situations. Leadership grid offers
a means to evaluate different leadership styles then train the manager to move towards an
ideal style of leadership (Ghasabeh, Sayyadi, Soosay, and Reaiche, 460). A leader-behaviour
situational model plays an important role in development of realistic and more complex
approaches to leadership. Situational model assumes that leader behaviour differ from
situation to situation (Avolio, Bruce J., et al, 54). The main aim of the situational theory is to
figure out some situational factors and specify how much they interact to determine the
appropriate leader (Banks, George C., 25). A leader possess power and it is able to influence
people. Some of the types of power is legitimate power, coercive power, reference power,
and reward power. In today’s era, all these power traits are important to influence people
such as legitimacy has the authority which a manager has the virtue of the position in the
organisational hierarchy (Banks, George C., 27). Reward power is the ability to give tangible
or intangible rewards. Coercive power is another ability to punish others. Expert power is
based on special skills, knowledge, expertise and skills, which a leader possess. A referent
power is the power that comes from subordinates in the name of loyalty, admiration, and
respect (Priest, Simon, and Gass, 22).
Some other more types of leadership theories are contingency models where it accounts for a
situation where the leadership is applied (Banks, George, 650). For example- Fiedler`s model
theory is unique because it further helps the leader to be effective. LPC theory attempts to
elaborate both leader`s basic nature as well as complexity of the leadership theory.
Behavioural theories gives two classes of leader`s behaviour that are either task-oriented and
relationship oriented behaviour (Priest, Simon, and Michael Gass, 25). Effective leader
inspires the subordinates to commit the people to the goals by communicating the vision,
setting up of powerful example and displaying charismatic behaviour. LPC stands for least-

preferred co-worker. Leader effectiveness depends on situations and leaders may occur that
identifies the match between different situations (Hoch, Julia E., et al, 29). Other more
theories related to transformational leadership and transactional leadership. It is observed that
other theories are attempted to explain how leaders want to accomplish their extraordinary
goals especially turning from failing organisation to a successful organisation (Körner,
Mirjam, et al., 243). Moreover, the theories emphasis on importance of leader`s motivating,
admiring the subordinates, dedication, unquestioned loyalty, and admiration through clear
and compelling vision. Transactional leadership focuses on task and role requirement (Hoch,
Julia E., et al, 55).
Conclusion
On the basis of above discussion on leadership and teamwork, it can be seen that both the
concepts plays an important in achieving the organisational objectives. Leadership is not
same at all the levels of operations as well as business. It differs form organisation to
organisation and from situation to situation (Boamah, Sheila et al. 189).
There is a common belief that leadership is a crucial element for effective societal
functioning and success of the organisation. Leaders create energy and enthusiasm among the
followers to achieve the organisational goals. It is important to communicate for a leader to
its every employee. Although, team working is not a finite work. With an aim to achieve the
performance of the organisation with continuous long-term transformation that lead to
contribution to the creation of business level strategy (Soraperra, Ivan, et al,. 15).
The idea of self-directed teams can be deceptive, as the teams have to be accountable to the
management and depend on the facility of resources and other funding. Apart from this, with
an aim to ensure that teams will continuously develop so that it can move towards the self-
regulation (Soraperra, Ivan, et al,. 15).

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