Leadership and team work
Abstract
This chapter highlights the importance of team work. It explains that the leader should ensure that team members have clear roles and that obstructions to progress are removed. Thus, teams can offer an efficient way of utilising and maximising individual skills and talents to offer the best possible service to the public. Meanwhile, teams can be dysfunctional for a variety of reasons, which can ultimately lead to inter-team conflict or a loss of public support. The chapter explains how teams develop over time while the leader ensures positive outcomes which reference forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning as stages of team development.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Corporate Management and Leadership
Team Dynamics and Performance
Educational Leadership and Innovation
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Oxford University Press eBooks
- Pages
- 21–33
- Publication date
- 5 January 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter