ABSTRACT
This chapter relates to the British Psychological Society’s area of Leadership, Engagement, and Motivation, with a particular spotlight on groups and teams. It focuses more specifically on the application of Social Identity Theory (SIT) to group and team behaviour at work. The chapter gives a broad overview of SIT, what this means for organisations and the people within them, and how it influences leadership effectiveness, employee experiences, and team behaviour. The chapter then considers the practical applications of the theory to work-based teams, and the important elements that should be considered as global working practices evolve, and teams become hybrid, distributed, and co-located. There are tasters of wider issues relating to applying SIT to organisations in specific contexts that practitioners can consider in their own work with groups and teams.
