18 research outputs found
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Asking the Right Questions About Leadership: Discussion and Conclusions
Five questions prompted by the articles in the American Psychologist special issue on leadership (January 2007, Vol. 62, No. 1) suggest some new directions for leadership research: (1) Not do leaders make a difference, but under what conditions does leadership matter? (2) Not what are the traits of leaders, but how do leaders' personal attributes interact with situational properties to shape outcomes? (3) Not do there exist common dimensions on which all leaders can be arrayed, but are good and poor leadership qualitatively different phenomena? (4) Not how do leaders and followers differ, but how can leadership models be reformulated so they treat all system members as both leaders and followers? (5) Not what should be taught in leadership courses, but how can leaders be helped to learn?Psycholog
How Individual Power Use Affects Team Process and Performance: Implications for the Powerholder
Even within teams of peers, certain individuals have more power than others. Individual members may
have essential skills and experience, networks outside the team, or status within the organization that
give them more power than the average team member (French & Raven, 1959; Hollander, 1958). How
these powerholders use their power may vary from team to team. For example, consider a task force
whose purpose is to solve a problem in the organization’s ability to attract new members. One member
of the team is especially expert in member-engagement practices and root cause analysis, upon which the
team is dependent to complete its task well. This dependency gives her power (Emerson, 1964). She
might use her power solely to influence the team’s task approach in the areas most relevant to her particular
skill. Or she may use her special influence to dominate a range of team functions, from managing
relations with senior leaders, to controlling the conflict-management processes within the group. Or
she might exert no special influence at all, acting as an average team member in all domains. What consequences
might her choices have for the effectiveness of this team
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Leading Teams When the Time is Right: Finding the Best Moments to Act
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Behind the Seniors
HR can give chief executives some invaluable prompts from the wings as they take to the stage with a new top team, Harvard researchers have found.Psycholog
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J. Richard Hackman (1940-2013)
When J. Richard Hackman died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on January 8, 2013, psychology lost a giant. Six and a half feet tall, with an outsize personality to match, Richard was the leading scholar in two distinct areas: work design and team effectiveness. In both domains, his work is foundational. Throughout his career, Richard applied rigorous methods to problems of great social importance, tirelessly championing multi-level analyses of problems that matter. His impact on our field has been immense
A Theory of Team Coaching
After briefly reviewing the existing literature on team coaching, we propose a new model with three distinguishing features. The model (1) focuses on the functions that coaching serves for a team, rather than on either specific leader behaviors or leadership styles, (2) identifies the specific times in the task performance process when coaching interventions are most likely to have their intended effects, and (3) explicates the conditions under which team-focused coaching is and is not likely to facilitate performance.Psycholog