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The relative importance of leadership style in developing high performance technical specialist teams
Dissertation (MBA (Business Administration))--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/31559 The relative importance of leadership style in developing high performance technical specialist teams ichelp@gibs.co.za Dr C Scheepers Mac Gregor, Stuart UCTD Transformational leadership Transactional leadership High performing teams Leadership styles Multifactor leadership questionnaire (mlq) Dissertation (MBA (Business Administration))--University of Pretoria, 2012. In today’s competitive business world, it is becoming increasingly important that leaders understand what style of leadership will motivate their employees and teams to deliver their projects by functioning as high performing teams. As the world changes, the style of leadership needs to change accordingly.Transformational leadership has been identified as the style that allows leaders to obtain maximum output from their subordinates, by developing and involving their subordinates, thus adding value and meaning to the subordinates role within the organisation. However, research has clearly indicated that transformational leadership is only effective when built on an effective transactional leadership environment.Within the literature and organisations, teams consist of members with various skills that are brought together to deliver a project. However, does the literature apply to teams that consist solely of technical specialists all working on the same project?The research aims to determine what leadership styles, transformational or transactional, will motivate technical specialist to become high performing, via quantitative and qualitative survey methods. The quantitative method will consist of an online survey to determine the perceived leadership styles of the senior management and junior staff. The qualitative method will consist of interviews with senior management and junior staff to determine what leadership styles motivates them.The outcomes of the research indicate that teams of technical specialists within the studied organisation perceive transactional leadership as slightly more important that transformational leadership in motivating them to become high performing teams, as having the right tools, policies and procedures are required to complete their deliverables. Gordon Institute of Business Science MBA (Business Administration) restricted 2013-09-09T12:38:35Z 2013-04-30 2013-09-09T12:38:35Z 2013-04-25 2012-04-30 2012-02-23 Dissertation Mac Gregor, SJ 2012, The relative importance of leadership style in developing high performance technical specialist teams, MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-02232013-130812/ > F13/4/198/zw http://hdl.handle.net/2263/31559 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-02232013-130812/ en © 2012 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Transformational leadership Transactional leadership High performing teams Leadership styles Multifactor leadership questionnaire (mlq) The relative importance of leadership style in developing high performance technical specialist teams |
| title | The relative importance of leadership style in developing high performance technical specialist teams |
| title_full | The relative importance of leadership style in developing high performance technical specialist teams |
| title_fullStr | The relative importance of leadership style in developing high performance technical specialist teams |
| title_full_unstemmed | The relative importance of leadership style in developing high performance technical specialist teams |
| title_short | The relative importance of leadership style in developing high performance technical specialist teams |
| title_sort | relative importance of leadership style in developing high performance technical specialist teams |
| topic | UCTD Transformational leadership Transactional leadership High performing teams Leadership styles Multifactor leadership questionnaire (mlq) |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/31559 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-02232013-130812/ |