Cyclical models of group development may be integrated with an interactive model of leadership emergence in autonomous teams. This paper contextualizes the interaction of leader traits and situational factors in the cycling of an autonomous team within and between the storming, norming and performing phases of group development.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
1.
Arrow, H. & McGrath, J.E. (1995). Membership dynamics in groups at work: A theoretical framework. Research in Organizational Behavior, 17: 373-411.
2.
Bales, R.F. & Cohen, S.P. (1979). SYMLOG: A system for the Multiple Level Observation of Groups. New York: Macmillan Publishing .
3.
Barbuto, J.E., Jr. (2000). Influence triggers: A framework for understanding follower compliance. Leadership Quarterly, 11(3): 365-387.
4.
Berger, M. & Zelditch, M., Jr. (1998). Introduction to Part II: Status processes. Status, Power, and Legitimacy. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publications.
5.
Cannon-Bowers, J.A., Oser, R., & Flanagan, D.C. (1992). Work teams in industry: A selected review and proposed framework. In R.W. Swezey & E. Salas, (Eds.), Teams: Their Training and Performance. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
6.
Chemers, M.M. (1997). An Integrative Theory of Leadership. Mawah, NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
7.
Cohen, S.G. & Bailey, DE (1997). What makes teams work: Group effectiveness research from the shop floor to the executive suite. Journal of Management , 23: 239-290.
8.
Den Hartog, D.N., House, R.J., Hanges, P.J., Ruiz-Quintanilla, S.A. & Dorfman, P.W. (1999). "Culture specific and crossculturally generalizable implicit leadership theories: Are attributes of charismatic/transformational leadership universally endorsed?" The Leadership Quarterly , 10(2): 219-256. DeSanctis, G. & Poole, M.S. (1997). Transitions in teamwork in new organizational forms. Advances in Group Processes,14: 157-176.
9.
Forsyth, D.R. (1999). Group Dynamics. Belmont, CA , Wadsworth.
10.
Gersick, C.J.G. (1991). Revolutionary Change Theories: A multilevel exploration of the punctuated equilibrium paradigm. Academy of Management Review, 16(1): 10-36.
11.
Gerstner, C.R. & Day, D.V. (1994). Cross-cultural comparison of leadership prototypes . The Leadership Quarterly, 5(2): 121-134.
12.
Gladstein, D.L. (1984). Groups in context: A model of task group effectiveness . Administrative Science Quarterly,29: 499-517.
13.
Graen, G.B. & Scandura, T.A. (1987). Toward a psychology of dyadic organizing. In L.L. Cummings and B. Staw (Eds.), Research in Organizational Behavior. vol. 9: 175-208. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
14.
House, R.J. (1996). Path-goal theory of leadership: lessons, legacy, and a reformulated theory. The Leadership Quarterly, 323-352.
15.
Hersey, P. & Blanchard, K.H. (1977). The Management of Organizational Behaviour 3e. Upper Saddle River N. J.: Prentice Hall.
16.
Hollander, E.P. (1971). Style, structure, and setting in organizational leadership. Administrative Science Quarterly,16:1-9.
17.
House, R.J. & Aditya, R.N. (1997). The social scientific study of leadership: quo vadis?Journal of Management, 23(3): 409-474.
18.
House, R.J. & Mitchell, T.R. (1974). Path-goal theory of leadership . Journal of Contemporary Business, 81-97. Hunt, C.S. & Aldrich, H.E. (1998). The second ecology: Creation and evolution of organizational communities . Research in Organizational Behavior, 20: 267-301.
19.
Katz, D. & Kahn, R.L. (1978). The Social Psychology of Organizations, 2nd Edition. New York: Wiley.
20.
Kellett, J.B., Humphrey, R.H., & Sleeth, R.G. (2002). Empathy and complex task performance: two routes to leadership. The Leadership Quarterly, 13(5): 523-544.
21.
Lawler, E.E., III (1988). Substitutes for hierarchy. Organizational Dynamics, 17(1): 4-15.
22.
Lord, R.G., Foti, R., & DeVader, C.L. (1984). A test of leadership categorization theory: Internal structure, information processing, and leadership perceptions. Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, 34: 343-378.
23.
Lord, R.G. & Maher, K.J. (1991). Leadership and Information Processing: Linking Perceptions and Performance. Boston: Unwin Hyman.
24.
McGrath, J.E. (1964). Social Psychology: A Brief Introduction. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston .
25.
Mischel, W. (1973). Toward a cognitive social teaming reconceptualization of personality. Psychological Review,80: 252-283.
26.
Osborn, R.N., Hunt, J.G., & Jauch, LR (2002). Toward a contextual theory of leadership. The Leadership Quarterly, 13(6): 797-837.
27.
Pearce, C.L. (2004). The future of leadership: combining vertical and shared leadership to transform knowledge work. Academy of Management Executive, 18(1): 47-59.
28.
Piore, M.J. (1994). Corporate reform in American manufacturing and the challenge to economic theory . In T.J. Allen and M.S. Scott Morton, (Eds.), Information Technology and the Corporation of the 1990s. New York: Oxford University Press.
29.
Powell, W.W. (1990). Neither market nor hierarchy: Network forms of organization. Research in Organizational Behavior, 12: 295-336.
30.
Seers, A. (1989). Team-member exchange quality: a new construct for role-making research. Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes, 43(1): 118-135.
31.
Seers, A., Petty, M.M., Cashman, J. (1995). Team-member exchange under team and traditional management. Group and Organization Management, 20(1): 18-38.
32.
Seers, A. (2001). Organizing Systems. Virginia Commonwealth University.
33.
Shaw, J.B. (1990). A cognitive categorization model for the study of intercultural management. Academy of Management Review , 15(4): 626-646.
34.
Snyder, M. (1974). Self-monitoring of expressive behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 30(4):526-537.
35.
Taggar, S., Hackett, R., & Saha, S. (1999). Leadership emergence in autonomous work teams: Antecedents and outcomes. Personnel Psychology, 52: 899-926.
36.
Tuckman, B.W. & Jensen, M.A. (1977). Stages of small-group development revisited. Group and Organizational Studies, 2(4): 419-427.
37.
Tuckman, B.W. (1965). Developmental Sequence in Small Groups. Psychological Bulletin,63(6):384-399.
38.
Watson, W.E., Kumar, K., & Michaelsen, L.K. (1993). Cultural diversity's impact on interaction process and performance: comparing homogeneous and diverse task groups. Academy of Management Journal, 36(3):590-603.
39.
Weick, K.E. (1979). The social psychology of organizing. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley.
40.
Wofford, J.C. & Liska, L.Z. (1993). Path-goal theories of leadership: a meta-analysis . Journal of Management, 857-876.
41.
Wolff, S.B., Pescosolido, A.T., & Druskat, V.U. (2002). Emotional intelligence as the basis of leadership emergence in self-managing teams. The Leadership Quarterly , 13(5): 505-522.
42.
Yukl, G. (2001). Leadership in Organizations. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
43.
Yukl, G. (1999). An evaluation of conceptual weaknesses in transformational and charismatic leadership theories. The Leadership Quarterly , 10(2): 285-305.
44.
Zelditch, M. & Walker, H.A. (2000). The normative regulation of power. Advances in Group Processes,17: 155-178.
