Purpose – The purpose of this research is to examine the relationships among team leader emotional intelligence competencies, team level emotional intelligence, and team performance. Design/methodology/approach – It is argued here that the team leader's emotional intelligence (EI) will...

Purpose – Researches have documented the impact of dyadic communication and relationships on individual behavior in workgroups. However, communication remains as the background element in leadership and management literature as opposed to being the primary process in the leader‐member...

Purpose – Drawing on the political theory of leadership and the input‐process‐output model the purpose of this paper is to examine the link between leader political skill and team performance by focusing on the mediating role of team communication and the moderating role of team task...

The writings of Niccolò Machiavelli continue to resonate with today's business leaders. Current management literature still focuses on tactics to increase power as a means to ensure a leadership position. This attention to individual accomplishment and the building of power runs counter to what...

Presents an interview with J. Richard Hackman, Cahners‐Rabb Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology, Harvard University. Covers areas of the selection of leaders in companies and the way that personal attitudes and behaviour patterns of team members complicate the chances of a team's...

Successful organizations manage to change their strategy constantly in line with the changes in their competitive environment by using a dynamic approach to strategy formulation and implementation. Demonstrates the way in which such an approach can be developed, using the experiences of...

The study of top management teams, which began with confidence, optimism, and promise, has been plagued by criticisms arising from mixed or weak findings and poor explanatory power of firm outcomes vis‐à‐vis other variables. This paper argues that the disputed phenomenon of top management...

Purpose – The aim of the paper is to share the recipe that enables a team‐builder to build in the workplace, out of any group of individuals, a high‐performing team in four hours. Design/methodology/approach – After a period of research and testing, the recipe was formulated and...