ABSTRACT
Most of the organizations use teams to manage and coordinate their businesses— at both the top and lower levels throughout the organizational hierarchy. Leading team researchers J. Richard Hackman and Ruth Wageman define a management team as “a group of individuals, each of whom has a personal responsibility for leading some part of an organization, who are interdependent for the purpose of providing overall leadership for a larger enterprise.” Management teams deal with tasks that are difficult to handle effectively as individual managers. Many review articles and textbooks present research-based models of team effectiveness in work teams, in general. Effective management teams create emergent states that enhance members’ capability to work interdependently in the future. A management team consists of members who are interdependent in achieving common goals and whose success depends on their ability to cooperate and coordinate their actions.
