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Hierarchical leadership versus self-management in teams: Goal orientation diversity as moderator of their relative effectiveness
The Leadership quarterly, v 30(6), pp 1-13
01 Jan 2019
Abstract
Within team leadership literature much attention has been given to the role of authority differentiation (the degree to which responsibility for decision-making is vested in a limited number of team members). However, contingencies associated with its effectiveness remain largely unclear. Building on authority differentiation, substitutes for leadership, and social hierarchy literatures, we propose that teams low in authority differentiation (self-managing teams) require that team members are aligned in their goal orientations. Otherwise, goal orientation diversity leads team members to spend valuable cognitive resources on aligning team member efforts instead of information elaboration. Goal orientation homogeneity, however, serves as a substitute for leadership in these teams. By contrast, teams high in authority differentiation (hierarchical leadership teams) function more effectively with diverse goal orientations. In support of our arguments, we show experimentally that low authority differentiation is beneficial for teams homogeneous in goal orientations and detrimental for teams diverse in goal orientations.
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- Title
- Hierarchical leadership versus self-management in teams: Goal orientation diversity as moderator of their relative effectiveness
- Creators
- Anne Nederveen Pieterse - Erasmus University, Rotterdam School of Management, Organization and Personnel Management, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, 3062 PA Rotterdam, the NetherlandsJohn R. Hollenbeck - Michigan State University, Eli Broad Graduate School of Business, Department of Management, N475 North Business Complex, East Lansing, MI 48824-1121, United StatesDaan van Knippenberg - Drexel UniversityMatthias Spitzmüller - Queen's University Faculty of EducationNikos Dimotakis - Oklahoma State UniversityElizabeth P. Karam - Texas Tech UniversityDustin J. Sleesman - University of Delaware
- Publication Details
- The Leadership quarterly, v 30(6), pp 1-13
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Grant note
- Cognitive and Neural Sciences Division of the Office of Naval Research Erasmus Trustfonds (https://doi.org/10.13039/501100005797)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Management
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000504374800006
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85075916983
- Other Identifier
- 991019182665204721
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- Management
- Psychology, Applied