TEAM MANAGEMENT

Team Management

[Institution's Name]Team Management

Introduction

Understanding the nature of a strong leadership style is perhaps a lot easier than practically implying it. Traits of a good leader comprise of profound human qualities that are far beyond usual philosophy of authority. Some leaders tend to be very task-oriented; only concerned to get their task done. Other leaders are a lot more employee-oriented; they concern about an employee's happiness. Rests of them are a combination. In situations where a person prefers leading by enforcing firm schedules, one tends to be task-oriented. In case if employees are your primary concern and you strive to fulfill their needs, your approach is employee-oriented. None of the preference can be justified as right or wrong. Leadership styles tend to change according to different situations.

Not only are skills and abilities important but also the entrepreneur will need to consider the personality and character of each individual [leader] in order to create a viable organization culture (Hisrich, Michael, and Dean, 2005)

Team Management as a Supervisor

Assessment and development of different leadership styles is explained by many theorists. Theorists Robert Blake and Jane Mouton introduced an orientation of 'Task versus Person' was introduced in the early ages of 1960s. 'Blake and Mouton's fundamental premise are that the most effective managers maximize concern for people while simultaneously maximizing concern for production' (Safferstone, 2007).

In search to provide a structure for describing the management behaviors, Blake and Mouton (1980) explained two variables; 'concern for production' and 'concern for people'. They represented these variables over two extremes of a grid presenting nine degrees of each concern, grading from 1, representing a low level of concern, to 9 indicating a high level of concern. This structure is also known as the Managerial Grid or Leadership Grid. Over the grid, the theorists mark the scale of task-centeredness versus ...