Leadership and Teamwork in Organizational Behavior

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