Team Leadership: Concepts, Roles, Strategies and Attributes

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Teams have become a central of new system of organization management. Leadership involves influencing others, to drive them towards the achievements of organizational goals. Two important functions of leadership are-the task functions and the social functions. The former involves helping the group achieve its foals through planning and organizing, while the latter involves resolving differences and maintaining a pleasant group environment. It is well realized that most important factor for quality of teamwork is role of the leader. He may build or destroy the team and may not use the team. Leaders inspire vision, create innovative change, involve and empower others to take decisions. Thus, they forge a new path. Leaders see the potential in people an have full faith in it. They connect the potential of people with the need of the organization. Leaders are focused on catalyzing change and on service. Among the essentials to leadership are competency, clarity, integrity, taking accountability and courage. Dr. M.B. Athreya in his Foreword to this book rightly observes, "the theme chosen for this book is very contemporary. Both the words in the title have been very much in focus in recent management discussions in India and the world. Team work has appeared difficult both in India and the US, partly because, as great democratic cultures, they put a lot of stress, in principle, on individual liberty and initiative. In the last decade, managers have been exhorted as follows -‘Don’t just manage! Lead!!’ The wider concept of management includes, of course, leadership as one of its important processes. However, often, in practice, management tends to focus more on structures, systems, procedures, activities, data, etc. The people factor tends get left out; or, at the most, get cursory, inadequate attention, beyond lip service". This book "Team leadership" is divided into five major units containing over 50 chapters explaining various aspects of subject as under: (1) Leadership perspectives, (2) Conceptual framework of Leadership, (3) Roles of leadership, (4) Skills, traits and attributes, Development of leaders. In addition many innovative views of leading writers on leadership are given in annexures. "Team Leadership" will fulfil the needs of curriculum of management students and of upcoming leaders who want to be successful in their areas.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR S.K. Bhatia

S.K. Bhatia is a professional consultant in Human Resource Management, trainer, counselor and author. He is corporate trainer and conducts workshops and need-based training programmes on Human Resource Development for public and private sector organization. He is senior faculty for MBA and Post-Graduate Diploma in Personnel Management in various Business Management institutions. He is â€œAccredited Management Teacherâ€ by all India Management Association, New Delhi. He has over four decades of experience as practitioner in HRM Industrial Relations, Training, Organisation Development etc. He has been associated with the establishing of Human Resource and IR functions in factories/units and has been involved in formulation, co-ordination and implementation of these policies, in senior positions as Addl. General Manager, BHEL and as Director, Personnel, Oil India Ltd. After his Masterâ€™s degree, he obtained degree in Law from Delhi University In 1956 and took post-graduate diploma in Personnel Management from Calcutta University. He was selected in 1976 from BHEL, as a fellow under the â€œAction Learning Programmeâ€ of the Bureau of Public Enterprises, Government of India. Mr. Bhatia has attended a number of seminars and was specially sponsored to attend â€œILO Modular Trainingâ€ in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia/Singapore in March 1984. He has also attended General Mangement Programme for Top Management Personnel in Public Enterprises at Administrative Staff College of India. Hyderabad and in Yugoslavia during June 1987. He had the benefit of participating in several specialized professional traning programmes conducted by Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad, IIMs, NPC, BHEL, MDI, etc. He is Corporate Member of National Institute of Personnel Management, Calcutta. He has published a number of books and has written many articles which have appeared in professional journals/dailies. His papers won â€œShriram Awardsâ€ for two consecutive years, i.e. 1984 and 1985 from Delhi Management Association for the best adjudged papers in their Journal. He is the recipient of â€œEscorts 1987 for his contribution to the Understanding of management practices through his book â€œPrinciples and Techniques of Personnel Managementâ€. Mr. Bhatia has organized two institutions of which he is founder Director, (i) Indian Institute for Management of Absenteeism (IIMA), New Delhi in 1989, (ii) Human Resource Management Foundation (HEMF), New Delhi.