Organizational development - publié le 23/03/2010

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This document deals with managing a team effectively and the various tasks of the members of the team. First of all, it is important to understand that a team needs to have a leader who has virtues and attributes which differ from the rest of the members. However, it does not necessarily mean that the leaders are more intelligent than the rest of the population, but it suggests rather that they have particular aptitudes that fit well with managerial positions. As people working in group need to be managed to reach their goal, teams need leaders. In the occidental societies, having a leadership means having the attitudes which are in-depth analyzed herein. Even if each member of a team is responsible for its job, it is essential that someone takes the responsibility for the entire group. Most of the time, teams are created to accomplish a common objective which could not be achieved by only one person: the tasks produced by each member of a team contribute to the realization of the final project (as each piece of a puzzle contributes to construct the final picture). Thus, if there is no leader to take the responsibility of the team, it means that nobody is responsible for the achievement of the project.

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[...] By directing, coaching, facilitating the process and developing people, leaders are absolutely essential for the dynamic of a team. Finally, it is important to highlight that this paper is focused on the necessity to have a leader within a team. At first sight, the demonstration done in this study could seem distant from the initial problematic but nowadays, management methods advocate establishing teams at each stage of the organization development; moreover, organization could be perceived as a large team working to reach the making profits common objective. [...]

[...] The Leader as a success key factor of a dynamic team Building a team is not a simply task and does not just consist of bringing people together and just say: you are a team. You have to achieve this goal. Let's People have different work habits, way of thinking and skills and building a team involves creating the best dynamic which will lead to the higher performance. This is why it is essential for a team to have a leader who manages them and sets up the relationships. According to the Psychologist Bruce Tuckman (1965), the construction of a team goes through four steps into which the role of the leader is primordial. [...]

[...] They shared a common vision of the global project and the leader is almost always participative. People are interdependent because they trust in each other what enable members to work independently on certain tasks. Conversely to the previous stage, decisions are taken by the team and validated by the leader who must delegated projects and higher responsibilities. Members are self-confident and look for autonomy and flexibility. If the norming phase has been well crossed, team members are stimulated by creativity and challenges. [...]

[...] Being a leader is not an easy mission and it deals a lot with diplomacy skills. - Persuasion: A good leader has to be a good persuader. Indeed, people are not all the time 100% agree with the decisions taken and the job of a leader is to convince them to accept the change. In the majority of the case, an important decision follows the rule of the 20/60/20[5]. According to Brent Filson, when a team has to take a decision of the members totally agree totally disagree and 60% hesitate. [...]

[...] The inspirations could emanate from its mind or from the team members. But what makes different (and important) a leader regarding the rest of the team is its capability to select the best opportunities, avoiding the inconsiderate risks. Controller and manager skills[4] To make a team work successful, the most important job of a leader is the management. Indeed, people need to be managed and controlled toward the common team objective. The level of control is evaluated by the leader regarding the behavior of each team member: some need to be permanently followed, others less. [...]