Leadership's Effect on Teamwork: A Detailed Assessment Report

This report examines the significant impact of leadership on teamwork within organizations. It explores how effective leadership styles, such as democratic, strategic, coaching, and transformational, influence employee motivation, direction, and overall performance. The report emphasizes the importance of leadership in guiding employees towards common goals, defining roles, resolving conflicts, and fostering a positive work environment. It highlights the qualities of an effective leader, including honesty, integrity, and strong communication skills. The analysis covers various leadership approaches, including participative and laissez-faire styles, and concludes that strong leadership is essential for achieving organizational objectives and fostering successful teamwork. The report references several academic sources to support its findings and recommendations.

ASSESSMENT 2
(Leadership effect on
team work)

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Leadership can affect the team work...........................................................................................1
CONCLUSIONS..............................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Leadership is a kind of process which is related to influencing the people for goal and
objective achieving. In the context of organisations, leadership is very crucial because it provides
direction to the employees. This is a necessary part for organisational success. Effectiveness of
leadership depends on the ability of leader. The effective leadership can affect the team work
positively because all members put their maximum efforts to complete the task as per the
necessity. If leader is able to influence and motivate the employees then it would impact whole
organisation. This project contains detailed information about the impact of leadership on the
team work.
MAIN BODY
Leadership can affect the team work
As the effective leadership can affect the teamwork because it is helpful to motivates the
workers to perform well in order to achieve the goals of company. Leadership plays important
role in any kind of organisation. It provides needed direction to the employees so that they can
guide their activities towards the common goals and objectives. In addition it depends on the
skill and talent of a leader to motivate and influence the workforce. Entire leadership process
depends on the quality of leader (Merchant, 2012). If leader is unable to guide the employees in
right direction, then it can be difficult for the organisation to achieve their goals and objectives.
Leadership is not only required by the companies but also it is needed in every kind of sector.
There are many kind of leadership style which impacts the employees in many ways. Some
leadership styles are like democratic style, strategic, coaching, transformational etc. Each of
these styles have own importance in the context of leadership. Apart from these, success of a
team is depends on the team leader. This is why because team is a group of people who work
together for a common goal or purpose and it is must for a team that their all members should be
motivated. It is possible only by the leadership because this has significant impact on the team
work. For an example there is a team of 10-15 members who are working on a project, they have
all the resources but their members are not motivated. In this situation they require a kind of
leader who can motivate all the members and can influence towards the goals. This shows that
all the resources are worthless in the absence of the leadership (Negussie and Demissie, 2013). In
the context of today's business environment mostly teams have all needed resources but they
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don't have an effective leader. Due to this it makes difficult to achieve the goals of team. As the
time passing the importance of leadership is increasing because it is easy to managing the all
resources but finding an effective leader is not easy. The role of leadership is equal to the all
resources of team. A team completes with effort of a team leader because necessary guidance is
provided by the leader. Majorly, leadership works some works for the team like define the roles
and responsibilities as per the skill of team members, solving the barrier during the performing
the activities etc. Except from this, leadership is not limited till the influencing and directing, it
solves the conflicts among the members which raise due to many reasons like diversity. As the
effective leadership can affect the teamwork because it is helpful to encourage the workers to put
maximum efforts so that predetermined objectives can accomplish as per the requirement. As
leadership can lead the individuals so that they can complete the task and perform better so that
targets can be achieve as per the desire of organisation.
There are various qualities which are needed to be posses in leader and it develops the
leadership quality in a person which involves: honesty and integrity. If the leader is honest than
the staffs will also motivate by looking and put maximum contribution which is helpful to bring
effective teamwork and it also develops the integrity among the workers. As the effective
leadership develops the confidence in the persons and which encourage them to perform better so
that members of group can achieve the goals by collective teamwork (Mahdinezhad and Suandi,
2013). It is require that communication should be better so that proper information can be
communicate to all persons in the group and if the leader have effective leadership style than it
can provide all relevant information to the group members which is useful to complete the task in
required manner and it affect the team work positively. Positive attitude of leader is beneficial to
handle the complicated task and situations in order to achieve the targets which is set by the
management of corporation. The positive attitude of leader influence the behaviour of
individuals to resolve the issues which arises at work place and it positively affect the teamwork.
There are various leadership style can be followed by the leader in order the enhance the
teamwork so that all members of group put their maximum efforts to fulfil the requirement of
corporation. The participative leadership style can be use by leader and in which leader allows
the employees to involve in decision making process and the final decisions is being taken by the
leader and it also consider the ideas of members. It is helpful to improve the productivity because
all staffs will provide maximum contribution to complete the work and it shows the effective
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teamwork reason being all members have provide their valuable suggestions. The laissez fair
leadership style can be used when leader allows their staffs to make decisions but those persons
who are expert in a specific field they take the decisions but leader is still responsible for the
decisions which are taken by the employees. It is helpful to enhance the efficiency and
productivity because group members will show their willingness to complete the tasks and it
positively affect the team work because persons try their best to accomplish the objectives as per
the requirement.
So it has been analysed that leadership plays an important role to achieve the targets
which are set by the management. It is the requirement of all companies to have a good leader
which can motivate and lead the employees in order to achieve the predetermined goals of
corporations. As the team members put their higher contribution to accomplish the task as per the
desire so it has been analysed that leadership can affect the team work. Without it team can not
preform better in order to achieve the targets of organisation (Acar, 2012). As the effective
leadership can affect the teamwork because it is helpful to motivates the workers to perform well
in order to achieve the goals of organisation.
CONCLUSIONS
As from the above report, it has been concluded that leadership can affect the teamwork
because it motivates the employees to perform better in order to complete the objectives of
company. Effective leadership style is helpful to encourage and lead the persons to work as per
the requirement of task so that work can be done within stipulated time duration and as per the
requirement of corporation. Leader takes the initiative and responsible to manage and control the
team members so that all workers can work according to the necessity.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
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Teachers' Organizational Commitment and Job Satisfaction. Educational sciences:
Theory and practice.13(2). pp.806-811.
Mahdinezhad, M. and Suandi, B., 2013. Transformational, Transactional Leadership Styles and
Job Performance of Academic Leaders. International Education Studies.6(11). pp.29-
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Merchant, K., 2012. How men and women differ: Gender differences in communication styles,
influence tactics, and leadership styles.
Negussie, N. and Demissie, A., 2013. Relationship between leadership styles of Nurese
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Ethiopian journal of health sciences.23(1). pp.50-58.
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